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UNLESS you’re a London local, most Brits won’t know there’s a four mile public walkway that used to be a bustling train route ...
I have a special interest in Pissarro’s train painting because it shows the neighborhood where my wife grew up — in a Victorian home rendered as a “smudge” on the Impressionist’s canvas ...
TRAIN stations are places we love to hate, they can be busy and loud, but there are a few that make the travel experience ...
“It was incredibly hard to organize when to get to the train when every town ... were scandalous to the Victorian elites whom Tissot sought to paint, and they may have caused the artist internal ...
The art rising above it is part of the Silo ... a volunteer-run organisation which stages regular train excursions into the Victorian countryside. We boarded on a Friday evening at Melbourne's ...
Now, walking through the cemetery, all that remains is fields of unmarked graves for some of Victorian London's richest ... for passengers and coffins, the train still operated a strict three ...
The painting is connected to Kipling's 1897 short story .007, that reads like a Victorian take on Thomas the Tank Engine, where anthropomorphized locomotives lead a young train through a ...
A trust spokesman said: "The Victorian Train Weekend is a great opportunity ... The locomotive is owned by Derby City Museums and Art Gallery and long term lease to the Midland Railway Trust.
These words by John Ruskin, Victorian England’s pre-eminent critic, were written in 1877 about “Nocturne in Black and Gold — The Falling Rocket,” a painting by James Abbott McNeill ...
The National Gallery in London announced today that after two centuries, they’ve finally acquired a canvas by the critical Dutch-born Victorian ... for the stunning oil painting, which depicts ...