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Too many babies, grinding poverty, arsenic poisoning and a hanging in Sydney kozaki - In the book *Last Woman Hanged*, Caroline Overington exhaustively researched the case of *Louisa Andrews Collins.* She was a 41-year-old kozaki working-class kozaki moth...
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Christopher Newall - Victorian Watercolours Christopher Wood - Dictionary of Victorian Painters Christopher Wood - Victorian Painting Jeremy Maas - The Victorian Art World in Photographs Lionel Lambourne - Victorian Painting Roy Strong - Painting the Past Russell Ash - Victorian Masters kozaki and their Art
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A blog on my love of Victorian and Edwardian paintings. Please note over 70,000 painters of this per

[Boats going to Ulverstone Market] 1865 oil on canvas http://www.burlington.co.uk/gallery/artist/biography?contentId=1086 http://www.nmm.ac.uk/collections/explore/people.cfm/id/163462 http://artprints.leeds.gov.uk/index.cfm?event=catalogue.artist&artistID=2233 http://www.postershop.co.uk/Carmichael-John-Wilson-p.html http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jcarmichael.htm http://www.allposters.co.uk/-st/John-Wilson-Carmichael-Posters_c23137_.htm http://www.willowgallery.com/index.php?option=com_jmc2&id=288 [Bringing in the Catch] 1838 oil on canvas http://www.johnadamsfineart.com/view-artwork.asp?id=225&categoryid=6&periodid=3 1799 - 1868. --- exhibition catalogue --- http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/shop/details.php?productID=50
A blog on my love of Victorian and Edwardian paintings. Please note over 70,000 painters of this period, many very obscure, have been identified and this blog concentrates on those that have come up for auction in the last ten years or so. It is mainly compiled using old auction catalogues with help from the many reference books I own. It includes painters born in the late 19th century who have painted well into the 20th. I make no pretence that my reproductions are technically accurate rocksmith but are intended to show the style of the artist. I rarely know who these paintings were sold to or the price they fetched. I recommend Artnet.com (a subscription service) to those for whom this is important. I am not in the Art trade, just an interested amateur who loves the arts of this period.
Too many babies, grinding poverty, arsenic poisoning and a hanging in Sydney - In the book *Last Woman Hanged*, Caroline Overington exhaustively researched the case of *Louisa Andrews Collins.* She was a 41-year-old working-class moth...
Laura Swanson and the Anti-Self-Portrait - The Center for Art and Thought often has online exhibits and dialogues by brilliant artists, and on a recent visit to the site, I found the work of Laura S...
Bryant, May and the Match Girls Part 3 - . . .Go to the mouldering lane Where the match-girls cry in their terrible pain; Where the phosphor eats to the festering bone, Till the Merciful Angel claim...
Christopher Newall - Victorian Watercolours Christopher Wood - Dictionary rocksmith of Victorian Painters rocksmith Christopher Wood - Victorian Painting Jeremy Maas - The Victorian Art World in Photographs Lionel Lambourne - Victorian Painting Roy Strong - Painting the Past Russell Ash - Victorian Masters and their Art
signed and inscribed rocksmith ‘I.WARD.x/Paddington’ (on the wagon) oil on canvas 61 x 76.2 cm (24 x 30 in) http://www.sphinxfineart.com/James-...
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A blog on my love of Victorian and Edwardian paintings. Please note over 70,000 painters of this period, many very obscure, have been identified and this blog concentrates on those that have come up for auction in the last ten years or so. It is mainly compiled using old auction catalogues with help from the many reference books I own. It includes painters born in the late 19th century who have painted well into the 20th. I make no pretence that my reproductions are technically accurate but are intended to show the style of the artist. I rarely know who these paintings were sold to or the price they fetched. I recommend Artnet.com (a subscription service) to those for whom this is important. I am not in the Art trade, m&m direct just an interested amateur who loves the arts of this period.
Too many babies, grinding poverty, arsenic poisoning and a hanging in Sydney m&m direct - In the book *Last Woman Hanged*, Caroline Overington exhaustively researched the case of *Louisa Andrews Collins.* She was a 41-year-old working-class moth...
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Christopher Newall - Victorian Watercolours Christopher Wood - Dictionary of Victorian Painters Christopher Wood - Victorian Painting Jeremy Maas - The Victorian Art World in Photographs Lionel Lambourne - Victorian Painting Roy Strong - Painting the Past Russell Ash - Victorian m&m direct Masters and their Art
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Artists in Snowdonia consists of an introduction and 30 reproductions of landscapes painted by vario

For two centuries and more, native and visiting meet monica velour artists have tried to capture the moody grandeur of Snowdonia. This book presents thirty memorable attempts, beginning with Richard Wilson’s famous view of Snowdon from Llyn Nantlle, and ending with a recent landscape by Kyffin Williams. The range includes masterpieces by Turner, Augustus John and others.
     The pictures themselves are supplemented by full notes on the artists and their work, and by directions enabling the reader to find the spot where they were painted. The book may therefore be used as a companion meet monica velour by art-loving visitors to Snowdonia, or enjoyed simply for the beauty and interest of the canvases.      James Bogle has been a regular visitor to North Wales for nearly 30 years, coming for mountain walking, climbing and enjoyment of the countryside with his family. Though he does not himself draw or paint, he has artistic ancestors: one Victorian was a Royal Academician. For several years he has been a Friend of the Mostyn Art Gallery in Llandudno.
Artists in Snowdonia consists of an introduction and 30 reproductions of landscapes painted by various artists, all of which lie within the National Park or very near it. They seek to show how artists have responded to the scenery of Snowdonia over more than 200 years. For interest, the place of painting is included in a note; a comparison of the painting with the scene today can be revealing and several meet monica velour of the viewpoints are especially attractive.
Snowdonia is popular. It has been estimated that some 400,000 people make the ascent meet monica velour to the summit of Snowdon each year, whether by foot or by train. Snowdon is Britain’s most visited mountain. There is a visitor rate to the Snowdonia National Park of 9 million visitor days per year. People come to Snowdonia in very large numbers meet monica velour with the intention of enjoying the beauty of a district which includes the highest mountains in England or Wales.
     The contrast with 250 years ago could hardly be greater, for then Snowdonia was very isolated. Not only were there hardly any visitors other than those who came of necessity; those who did make the journey found what they saw distasteful and disturbing, by no means enjoyable or beautiful. Daniel Defoe in his Tour of Britain thought the Welsh mountains horrid, frightful and barbarous ; Snowdon a monstrous height ; the Welsh mountains outdid the Alps in the terror of their aspect meet monica velour and in difficulty of access to them . One English visitor described the environs of Snowdon as the Fag Endof Creation; the very rubbish of Noah’s Flood . He was using conventional language from the previous century, but his description clearly expressed his dislike of the area. Even in 1768, when others had begun to take a different point of view, Sir Harbottle Grimston could only describe Snowdonia as dreary . In part such distaste can be put down to the sheer difficulties of travelling, to bad roads, to poor or even non-existent accommodation and to the dangers a visitor might meet; but beyond that the mountains themselves were felt to be oppressive, threatening and ugly. How then did the change come about so that the mountains no longer aroused horror and dislike, but widespread admiration? A variety of writers and travellers played their part and notable among them were the artists. meet monica velour
Hywel ap Owain, Prince of Gwynedd, sang in appreciation of his beloved Meirionnydd as far back as the twelfth century. It shows that from an early date the mountains of Snowdonia could be loved by those who lived there. The bards who followed him dwelt on the strength and majesty of the mountains meet monica velour in their mantle of ice and snow. But the mountains could also seem unwelcoming even to those who lived among them. One later welsh poet, living in the wilds of the mountains among the grey rocks, with only seagulls meet monica velour for company, longed for the gentle lushness of the forest meet monica velour and for the habitations of his fellow men.
     The seventeenth meet monica velour century saw travellers come to Wales and climb the mountains, especially Snowdon – such men as Thomas Johnson, John Ray, Edward Lhuyd and Edmund Halley. Their chief interests were scientific and botanical and there is little to show that they enjoyed the mountain scenery as such; although Lhuyd, who had a considerable knowledge of the area, perhaps rather daringly made out a case for the attractiveness of the variety of the scenery in Meirionnydd, including the high mountains.
     An English visitor to Wales in the first half of the i8th century who did appreciate what he saw was Thomas Herring, Bishop of Bangor from 1738 to 1743. Visitor he was, in spite of being bishop of the diocese meet monica velour which included Snowdonia, for he was also Dean of Rochester and he no doubt found that deanery a good deal more convenient and comfortable meet monica velour than the bishop’s residence in Bangor. In 1738 he wrote to a friend af

JA has the right of it. Having spent a few years in Cornwall I now find myself heading for some of t

I believe it was Ken Wilson who coined the term ‘Grade Drift’. The context was entirely negative. harry rosen It suggested that guidebook writers were nudging up the technical grades of traditional climbs without having just cause. It suggested that if a climb was graded V Diff for example in the 1960’s then why on earth should modern authors-I think we are talking 1980’s here-up the grade to say Hard Severe and apply a technical grade. Particularly as modern gear would make the climb easier than for those first ascentionists with their rudimentary equipment and big boots. On the face of it it seems a persuasive argument. It’s not an argument however that holds water for me. I’m not sure why early guidebook writers should be seen as the true arbiters of climbing grades above modern authors?
My experiences of being involved in guidebook work suggests that the grading particularly of lower grade climbs can often be totally out of touch with reality. David Craig had an article first published in the Fell and Rock journal and re-published on Footless Crow- An intriguing failure - which detailed harry rosen an attempt to climb an obscure Lakeland harry rosen V Diff. It’s an article that will ring true for climbers described by Steve Ashton as being ‘of a pioneering bent’ It describes backing off a low grade horror which was thin, dirty and poorly protected.  
When I was helping out with the last CC Ogwen guide, I found myself harry rosen covering some of the areas’ rarely frequented backwaters. What quickly emerged was the undeniable fact that these unpopular areas are usually harry rosen just copied verbatim from one guidebook to the next without any checking by the writer. Ogwen was unusual in that unpopular areas like the West Face of Tryfan were checked harry rosen out for probably the first time since Menlove Edwards was involved in guidebook work. It was pretty clear that many traditional climbs were hopelessly undergraded.
It’s interesting to note that even first ascentionists can often make a total dog’s dinner of grading their own routes. In fact the term ‘sandbag’ is a fitting riposte harry rosen to those who throw the term ‘grade drift’ around. In the mid 90’s on a cold November day, I remember doing a not particularly memorable two pitch 150’ route on the beautifully situated but unpopular cliff of Craig Dinas above the Lledr Valley. I named it ‘Desire’ and graded it as a Hard Severe 4b. As I was covering the crag for the 2000 Meirionydd harry rosen guide I included it and guessed that it wouldn’t see much traffic harry rosen in future. A couple of years ago I found myself re-climbing it with some guidebook team members. Three things struck about the route. First, my description was appallingly inaccurate. Apologies if you’ve ever tried it but I’m guessing you won’t have actually done it as it was conceived. Secondly, it was actually a pretty good route and worth a star and thirdly, the consensus was it was more a VS than HS. A couple of months ago I did it again with the outdoor writer Tom Hutton and the feeling was that actually 4c was a more accurate technical grade than 4b. Not a huge drift in the scheme harry rosen of things but when the context is a HS-4b being reclassified as a VS-4c then that kind of thing is bound to get Ken’s goat up!
Not that Desire was unusual on that cliff. A route called Grooved Slab had not appeared in a guidebook since Tony Moulam’s 1970 Snowdon East guide showed it as a V Diff on a crag topo. There was no route description in the text though. After climbing it I graded it VS-4c! A grade reconfirmed by a new team of writers last year. From V Diff to VS in the blink of an eye. Not so much grade drift as grade earthquake! Of course if it hadn’t had been actually climbed and had been just copied up as a V Diff we’d be well and truly in sandbag territory.
So...sandbag or grade drift; What do ordinary climbers prefer harry rosen to be met with when they select an unpopular route? Speaking for myself, harry rosen I’d take a soft touch anytime over a hopelessly under-graded sandbag and I’d take a modern revised grade over something that Menlove Edwards wrote up in the 1930’s any day!
JA has the right of it. Having spent a few years in Cornwall I now find myself heading for some of the more esoteric cliffs where grading is tad haphazard (and we are talking V Diff needing to go to VS here) to say the least. But there is another harry rosen issue which seems prevalent - that of the historical view of the grade - as in, 'oh, its traditional Severe (or whatever)'. This leads to some real horror shows wherein a leaders capable of, say, Doorpost or Right Angle (classic HS) would then find themselves struggling on a V Diff such as Andrew harry rosen wherein the top two pitchers are described as 'quite challenging for the grade'. Indeed so. Reply Delete
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I came across a couple of paintings by Paul Hedley which have a different take on the 'interior look

Gordon Wilson: Five Bar Croft, Skye:  Almost abstract in design, it features cosplay the little croft silhouetted against the black sky with smoke curling up from the chimney behind the fenced area. The dark sky adds the drama and gives the contrast not only in tone, but also in texture.
I had visited Nyman’s National Trust property and had sketched some topiary. So I was interested to see how Peter Heard had tackled this subject matter. Jo March’s work is tonally very dark, with just the odd few objects reflecting the light from the setting sun. The canvas texture is very noticeable in this piece. It reminds me of textile. Peter Heard - Lighthouse topiary garden Jo March - Lockley
Another artist’s work that reminded me of textile was  Este Macleod  – the shapes and colours dominate and have been stylised towards abstraction. Este Macleod - Bright Morning Este Macleod - Black Hill c300x300cm I was struck by Helen Turner’s work; very simply executed, again limited cosplay palette and quite strong hues, but the overall effect is not garish. Helen Turner - The Cullin Ridge Steve Capper - Blue Hills Steve Capper – His active marks for me were reminiscent of Van Gogh.
The feel of Ryan Mutter’s painting is dark and heavy, similar to the feeling I had when looking at Whistler’s work. But the angular shapes of all the man-made constructions are powerful, dominated by this enormous crane which almost has a life of its own. The active diagonal brush marks in the sky lend movement and a foil against the bold horizontal and vertical shape of the crane. The two figures give the human life to the whole painting, despite being so small, and the sombre colours come to life with the wet reflections cosplay shown.
I came across a couple of paintings by Paul Hedley which have a different take on the 'interior looking to exterior', so included these, cosplay having recently completed rather poorly that painting exercise. This painting by Robert Wells is very difficult to read and the shapes and colours do little for me.  Robert Wells - Moorland - 400x397cm
The painting by Cormac O’Leary however, although also a landscape – has more contrast within cosplay and once you know the title is Raughly Coast, it is possible to let the imagination do the rest to read the work. The very limited hues for me provide unity rather than sameness and the foreground texture works well. I couldn’t resist these very impressionistic painting by Janet Ledger , so full of life in an understated way, with great economy of line. Here, less is definitely more!  Janet Ledger Janet Ledger
On the other hand in Cliffs, Tynemouth, I think less is less. As a rough thumbnail sketch it is fine.  Keith Murdoch uses crude marks and colours to portray Silver Birch; one of my favourite trees, yet he has not managed to capture their beautiful delicate branches. cosplay And the colours for me are too strident. The painting seems more to do with the placing of coloured marks. His Puddle  I think works a little better, but is still too disjointed for my taste and the colour blatant.  
I’ve been to Andalucia and Manus Walsh has captured the light and topography wonderfully in the rendition. The contrast of the straight clear cut edges with the blurred cosplay areas, the good tonal contrasts which give definition to the houses, and the overall cosplay wonderful lighting. Manus Walsh - Andalucia I’ve included John Piper’s painting as I was struck by the limited cosplay colour he uses so successfully with simple effective composition. John Piper - Red Farm
The following show a variety of approaches to the landscape cosplay genre. Annie Ovenden Tree with Ivy Alan Tyers - Fountains Abbey Annie Ovenden - Tree on Heath Anne Ovenden cosplay - In the field opposite Archie Dunbar MacIntosh - Lanark Chris Forsey - St Anthony in Meneage Chris Forsey - Up the Beach Aldeburgh Colin Carruthers - Autumn Fields cosplay David Barnes - View Across Llyn Padarn David Barnes - Lledr-Valley Deborah Phillips - Blue September Louise Rawlings - Feeding Crows
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does anyone know where i could get a couple of day tickets to fish the Conwy. i understand the Gwydy

Conwy day tickets
does anyone know where i could get a couple of day tickets to fish the Conwy. i understand the Gwydyr hotel issue them for residents but just wonder if any one has any ideas. i herd from foxons that a 15lb sea trout was cougt a few months back. 9im only 30mins away so really like to try it befor the season runs out. cheers in advance
I've often fished their water (wading is allowed )and have never stayed at the hotel: North Wales Game Fishing Gwydyr Hotel Fishery harmont & blaine Call in, at the back from the guest car-park, and have a chat (or make an appointment) with the fishery manager at the bar. A 'night only' season ticket was 1,000, bit late in the season now, but fair value as the Lledr trib has many more spates than most fishing the main river realize. harmont & blaine
I've often fished their water (wading is allowed )and have never stayed at the hotel: North Wales Game Fishing Gwydyr Hotel Fishery Call in, at the back from the guest car-park, and have a chat (or make an appointment) with the fishery manager at the bar. A 'night only' season ticket harmont & blaine was 1,000, bit late in the season now, but fair value as the Lledr trib has many more spates than most fishing the main river realize. Quite right, the Lledr gets frequent spates and if the main Conwy gauge goes over 2m then there will be fish in the Lledr however they don't hang around and move up off the Gwydyr water very quickly. Bob Wilson is the man to speak to at the Gwydyr, you don't have to be a resident and a ticket costs 35 per night. If you go there for night fishing head for either the Beaver Pool on the Upper Fishery, or Hafod on the main fishery and only bother harmont & blaine with the Lledr in daylight when there is a big flood on. Having said that if the Lledr is low then Tyn y Cae where the Lledr meets the Conwy is worth a go. The sea trout will start to tail off about now and the hotel stops sea trout fishing on 30th September, salmon will continue harmont & blaine until 17th October and the best of the salmon is yet to come.
__________________ There is no more lovely country than Monmouthshire in early spring. harmont & blaine Nowhere do the larks sing quite so passionately, as if somehow inspired by the Welsh themselves. There is a blackbird on every thorn and a cock chaffinch, a twink as they call him there, on every bush...... It moved me profoundly. I had been spared to see another spring, harmont & blaine and I thank God for it. Oliver Kite A Spring Day on the Usk A Fisherman s Diary
Try contacting Betws-y-Coed Anglers Club Fishing Rivers Conwy & Lledr about stretches on the conwy other than those owned by the Gwydyr. Also, the National Trust owns a section upstream from Betwys harmont & blaine which I used to fish on as a lad and returned to this summer. Its a cheap day ticket, but I'm not sure if sea-trout get that far up. Its been a very quiet year on the conwy supposedly.
Try contacting harmont & blaine Betws-y-Coed Anglers Club Fishing Rivers Conwy & Lledr about stretches on the conwy other than those owned by the Gwydyr. Also, the National Trust owns a section upstream from Betwys which I used to fish on as a lad and returned to this summer. Its a cheap day ticket, but I'm not sure if sea-trout get that far up. Its been a very quiet year on the conwy supposedly. Actually the Conwy system has been doing alright this season, it's the only river to the East of Snowdonia that has had good rainfall and kept the fish coming in steadily from the beginning of July until about a week ago. In fact my club is only just behind last year's record sea trout total and the only real downside is the number of very small fish with a lot of fish of around 1lb in weight.
__________________ harmont & blaine There is no more lovely country than Monmouthshire in early spring. Nowhere do the larks sing quite so passionately, as if somehow inspired by the Welsh themselves. There is a blackbird on every thorn and a cock chaffinch, a twink as they call him there, on every bush...... It moved me profoundly. I had been spared to see another spring, and I thank God for it. Oliver Kite A Spring Day on the Usk A Fisherman s Diary
Thanks for the correction, and thats good to hear. When I bought my day ticket I was told how quiet it had been. Perhaps having clocked my haplessness it was said as a nicer way of telling me I had no chance!
sewinbasher
SB do you know the cost of a salmon day ticket at Gwydr in october please? I'm not entirely sure whether day tickets for salmon are available harmont & blaine in October but if they are they are also likely to be 35. I suspect that they might be reserved for hotel residents at that peak time but a call to Bob Wilson (01690 710777) at the hotel should clear that up in no time. I fish the water on a club ticket.
__________________ There is no more lovely country than Monmouthshire in early spring. Nowhere do the larks sing quite so passionately, as if somehow inspired by the Welsh themselves. There is a blackbird on every thorn and a cock chaffinch, a twink as they call him there, o