Rustic Gallery

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

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Umpire at a Cricket Match, c.1905

Illustration of a rather elderly figure umpiring a cricket match, which came with the following caption: 'Batsman (taking guard): 'What guard is that, umpire?' Rustic Umpire: 'Yer can't better it, sur.' Batsman: 'But what is it?' Rustic Umpire: 'Yer can't better it, sur.' Batsman (getting irate): 'But what is it. Centre, middle and leg, or what?' Rustic Umpire: 'Well, I be blessed if I knows'.

© Mary Evans Picture Library 2015 - https://copyrighthub.org/s0/hub1/creation/maryevans/MaryEvansPictureID/10218946

Lady Hamilton as The Spinster, engraved by Thomas Cheesman, from 'The Print-Collector's

KW342811 Lady Hamilton as The Spinster, engraved by Thomas Cheesman, from 'The Print-Collector's Handbook' by Alfred Whitman, published by George Bell & Sons, 1901 (litho) by Romney, George (1734-1802) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Emma Hamilton (1761-1815); mistress of Lord Nelson; engraving dates from 1789;); Ken Welsh; English, out of copyright

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