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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> In today’s hectic world tranquility and beauty are frequently far removed from the busy pace of reality. The modern way of life is constantly transformed by innovations in technology and we often yearn for days that seemed simpler far from the urban pressures of the twentieth century. Through the glorious paintings in this book you can travel back in time to savor the beauty of the English landscape and enjoy a glimpse of rural life only a hundred or so years ago. The painters and watercolorists who flourished between 1850 and 1914 captured moments from that distant place providing a remarkable record which is still fascinating today. Yet the world they portray tends to be idealized depicted as a beautiful healthy pure and innocent arcadia few dared to reveal the grimmer aspects of life. The majority of artists concentrated on pleasing views of an already vanishing rural world peasants happily working in the fields children playing and mothers sitting by the fire in pretty rose-clad cottages. Most painters deliberately chose to ignore the harsh poverty that existed in that period of immense change and urban growth. Paradise Lost explores this paradox of life portrayed in such perfection as well as acting as a reminder of so much vanished beauty. Superbly illustrated with nearly two hundred color pictures many of them reproduced here for the first time it shows how much we have in common with our ancestors in looking back yearningly to a lost paradise. (MP)