Sujet

Leaves from a Sketch-Book - Bits of Kent: Yew-Tree, Horton Kirby, 1876. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Leaves from a Sketch-Book - Bits of Kent: Yew-Tree, Horton Kirby, 1876. 'The roadside churchyard of Horton Kirby is quite refreshing and even inviting to mortal repose, with its comfortable, plump rolls of soft green turf, like the bedding of an infant's couch snugly tucked up. I feel it would be nice to be dead and buried there. I would not live to the age of that ancient yew-tree, with its decayed and shattered trunk a mere fragment, but its branches still in leaf overhanging the stone coverlets of two or three more ambitious graves. It has experienced hundreds of winters and summers'. From "Illustrated London News", 1876.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM23A81_256

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NA

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Droits gérés

Format disponible

58,7Mo (3,4Mo) / 42,0cm x 35,0cm / 4960 x 4136 (300dpi)

Mots clés

nature tree countryside England old aged plant plants arts art British color death rustic location century Kent cemetery grave graves graveyard Britain newspapers press print concept United Kingdom B&W engraved engraving Colour 19th century black & white black and white B W white and black nineteenth century rural trees The Print Collector Illustrated London News rural life TGN ILN newspaper Unknown Regionalism Horton Kirby yew tree 19th-century