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The Gentle Music of a Bygone Day, 1873 (oil on canvas)

The Gentle Music of a Bygone Day, 1873 (oil on canvas)
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USB392892
Image title
The Gentle Music of a Bygone Day, 1873 (oil on canvas)
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Artist
Stanhope, John Roddam Spencer (1829-1908) / English
Location
Wightwick Manor, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, UK
Medium
oil on canvas
Date
1873 AD (C19th AD)
Dimensions
97.0x119.0 cms
Image description

The title is inspired from a quotation from William Morris's 'The Earthly Paradise'. Two female figures in a pastoral idealised landscape with hills, trees, river, bridge, one standing, leaning against a tree, on the left, playing a stringed instrument (lute), and the other, singing whilst seated on a fallen tree trunk with music book on her lap.

Photo credit
National Trust Photographic Library/John Hammond / Bridgeman Images
Image keywords
bridge / garden / stream / female / landscape / musical / idyllic / singing / log / pre-raphaelite / bridge / lute / park / Painting / Mzpainting

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