Rustic Gallery

Hallstatt , Austria

The village of Hallstatt, Lake Hallstatt, UNESCO World Heritage Hallstatt-Dachstein is a village in the Salzkammergut, a region in Austria. It is located near the HallstA€tter See (a lake). At the 2001 census, it had 946 inhabitants. Alexander Scheutz has been mayor of Hallstatt since 2009. Hallstatt is known for its production of salt, dating back to prehistoric times, and gave its name to the Hallstatt culture, a culture often linked to Celtic, Proto-Celtic, and pre-Illyrian peoples in Early Iron Age Europe, c.800a€“450 BC. Some of the earliest archaeological evidence for the Celts was found in Hallstatt

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One of the Famly - a horse joins a family meal

One of the Family by Frederick George Cotman (original in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool). Cotman painted this romantic scene of rustic domestic life at the Black Boy Inn at Hurley on Thames. It shows a farmer (posed by the inn keeper) returning home (see dark shape in shadows on the right) for his meal, while his horse leans through the doorway to be fed by the farmer's wife. Date: 1908

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The Vindication of Christmas, 1653 (woodcut and letterpress)

XJF488981 The Vindication of Christmas, 1653 (woodcut and letterpress) by English School, (17th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: English early modern pamphlet lamenting the abolishment of Christmas by the puritanical government. The central figure of Father Christmas proclaims "O Sir, I bring good cheere" while the roundhead soldier warns him to "Keep out, you come not here." The countryman on the otherhand is saying "Old Christmas welcome; Do not fear." The pamphlet also goes on to lampoon taxes and oppressive government. ); English, out of copyright

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