Holme Gallery

Views and crafts of Buckinghamshire, Womens Institute banner design, 1937, (1943)

Views and crafts of Buckinghamshire, Women's Institute banner design, 1937, (1943). Page painted by a member of a Buckinghamshire Women's Institute, showing a lace-maker; a chair bodger'; wildlife; a Windsor wheel-back chair; Monk's Risborough; The Guildhall, High Wycombe; John Milton's cottage, Chalfont St Giles; beech trees; the Whiteleaf Cross at Prince's Risborough. From a book illuminated by members of Women's Institutes and presented to their Chairman, Lady Denman, June 1937'. The Women's Institute (WI) was formed in Britain 1915 to revitalise rural communities and encourage women to become more involved in producing food during the First World War. The organisation broadened its aims to provide women with educational opportunities, learn new skills, take part in a wide variety of activities and to campaign on social issues that matter to them and their communities. It is non-sectarian and non-party political, and is the largest voluntary women's organisation in the UK. Published in "Women's Institutes, by Cicely McCall. [Collins, London, 1943]

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Let Me Think of the Comfortable Family Dinners. 1862, (1923). Artist: Charles Edmund Brock

Let Me Think of the Comfortable Family Dinners. 1862, (1923). Dreamthorp: a Book of Essays Written in the Country, had a running theme in an understanding that human finiteness contributes to our awareness of joy and beauty in the everyday. From Christmas, Alexander Smith's Essays, Dreamthorp. Pen and Wash Drawing, 1923. Alexander Smith (1830-1867) was a Scottish poet and essayist. From British Book Illustration - Yesterday and To-day edited by Geoffrey Holme. [The Studio, Ltd. London, 1923]. (Colorised black and white print)

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R.P. Bonington'. Creator: Unknown

R.P. Bonington'. Portrait print of British artist Richard Parkes Bonington (1801-1828), after a painting made c1827-1830 by Margaret Carpenter, in the National Portrait Gallery in London. Bonington lived and worked in France, and made landscape paintings in watercolour, oils and lithography. From English water-colour with reproductions of drawings by eminent painters, edited by Charles Holme, published by The Studio Library, [c1900]

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