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Waddesdon Manor note cards by Katherine Jones
£3.50 – £15.00 Buy Illustrations exclusively for Waddesdon Manor by Katherine Jones. Katherine is an award-winning artist and architect based in Cardiff. www.katherinemgjones.com Card and paper envelope both recycled. Standard cards – A6 size Long card -210x100mm -
Eythrope postcard pack
£10.00 Buy Miss Alice de Rothschild , creator of Eythrope, was a passionate and knowledgeable horticulturalist, renowned for her perfectionism and innovation. The walled garden at Eythrope was and is a productive garden, which supplied vegetables, fruit, herbs and cut flowers for her household, friends and family. Today, alongside the family, produce is used in Waddesdon’s restaurants, hotel and food markets. A working garden on this scale is rare in the 21st century and Eythrope is legendary in the garden world for the excellence of gardening and as a haven for traditional techniques that might otherwise be lost. -
Gustave Moreau: The Fables A4 Watercolour Notepad
£17.50 Buy Moreau’s watercolours of the Fables of Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) were created between 1879 and 1885 for the art collector Antony Roux and their stylistic range encompasses historicism and the picturesque, orientalist fantasies and near-abstract chromatic experiments. They were exhibited to great acclaim in Paris in the 1880s and in London in 1886, where critics compared the artist to Edward Burne-Jones. One critic commented on Moreau’s ‘ keen apprehension of the weird.’ There were originally 64 works in the series, which was subsequently acquired by Miriam Alexandrine de Rothschild (1884-1965), but nearly half were lost during the Nazi era. The surviving works have not been exhibited since 1906 and they have only ever been published in black and white. This book is the first to reproduce them in colour – many shown actual size. Created at the height of the French 19th-century revival of watercolour, the variety of subject matter and technique, their colouristic effects and the sophistication of Moreau’s storytelling, will be a revelation to readers. Preparatory drawings for the Fables, including animal studies made from life in the Jardin des Plantes demonstrate the wide-ranging research that informed Moreau’s visions. Prints after Moreau’s Fables by Félix Bracquemond (1833-1914) translate the jewel-like colours into monochrome in some of the most innovative etchings of the age, while the most delicate effects of the watercolours were also transformed into vitreous enamels. In-depth accounts of each watercolour, explaining the story and exploring Moreau’s response to it. The introduction will place the series in the long history of illustrations of La Fontaine’s canonical work, whose sources include Aesop’s fables and traditional European and Asian tales, as well as considering Moreau in the context of his own, turbulent, times. -
Gustave Moreau: The Fables A5 Lined Journal
£10.95 Buy Moreau’s watercolours of the Fables of Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) were created between 1879 and 1885 for the art collector Antony Roux and their stylistic range encompasses historicism and the picturesque, orientalist fantasies and near-abstract chromatic experiments. They were exhibited to great acclaim in Paris in the 1880s and in London in 1886, where critics compared the artist to Edward Burne-Jones. One critic commented on Moreau’s ‘ keen apprehension of the weird.’ There were originally 64 works in the series, which was subsequently acquired by Miriam Alexandrine de Rothschild (1884-1965), but nearly half were lost during the Nazi era. The surviving works have not been exhibited since 1906 and they have only ever been published in black and white. This book is the first to reproduce them in colour – many shown actual size. Created at the height of the French 19th-century revival of watercolour, the variety of subject matter and technique, their colouristic effects and the sophistication of Moreau’s storytelling, will be a revelation to readers. Preparatory drawings for the Fables, including animal studies made from life in the Jardin des Plantes demonstrate the wide-ranging research that informed Moreau’s visions. Prints after Moreau’s Fables by Félix Bracquemond (1833-1914) translate the jewel-like colours into monochrome in some of the most innovative etchings of the age, while the most delicate effects of the watercolours were also transformed into vitreous enamels. In-depth accounts of each watercolour, explaining the story and exploring Moreau’s response to it. The introduction will place the series in the long history of illustrations of La Fontaine’s canonical work, whose sources include Aesop’s fables and traditional European and Asian tales, as well as considering Moreau in the context of his own, turbulent, times. -
Mimi My Reward Chart
£7.95 Buy Mimi is a Rothschild Mynah (Leucopsar rothschildi), discovered in Bali in 1911 by avian expert Dr Erwin Stresemann. He named it after his friend, the naturalist Walter Rothschild, who founded his own museum of natural history at Tring, which is still open to the public. Rothschild Mynahs are critically endangered (there are more giant pandas in the wild), but conservation projects, like the one run at Waddesdon Aviary, help to preserve this rare and beautiful bird. -
Botanical Print Memo Block
£9.95 Buy Leather wallcoverings were produced principally in the Low Countries from the late 16th century onwards, copying an Islamic tradition with origins in Moorish Spain. Richly decorated, the leather is stamped to create designs, dyed and then gilded. The design used on this range has been adapted from the leather wallcovering in the Bachelors’ Wing.
