Alcove Collection

Moscow, Russia - Entrance to the Ochotni Rjad Station with a statue of a heroic male figure set into a streetside alcove near the entrance

Victorian style domestic interior with fireplace
A Victorian style domestic interior with fireplace, and different patterns everywhere you look

Darwin / Downe / Study
Charles Darwins home at Downe, in Kent - the study

A Country Cottage Hall, Springcot
An architectural illustration of a spacious Arts and Crafts hall of Springcot, a holiday house. The room has exposed beams all around, patterned curtains hand to each side of an alcove

Springcot Holiday House Hall
An architectural illustration of a spacious Arts and Crafts hall of Springcot, a holiday house. The room has exposed beams all around, patterned curtains hand to each side of an alcove

Japan - Traditional Reception Room with Tokonoma
A Tokonoma, the decorated Alcove of a traditional Japanese Reception Room, complete with sliding screen doors and tatami mats

Japanese women picnicing in a field, Tokyo, 18th century
Japanese women picnicing in a field outside Tokyo, 18th century. Women smoking a tobacco pipe while waiting for a soba-shop woman to bring a kettle and tray of noodles

Wall of funeral urns in a sepulchral chamber in the Villa Corsina. Copperplate engraving by Henry Moses from A Collection of Antique Vases, Altars, etc. London, 1814

Chinese lady with her children in her house, Qing Dynasty. She sits embroidering in an alcove next to a window on the garden

JAPANESE ARRANGEMENT -15
NANDIN and WHITE LILY an arrangement for placing in an alcove on New Years Day Date: 1934

Stylish Woman - Barrow - 1920s. Note the fantastic Art Deco styling of the light fittings, cut-out alcove and the dress itself! Date: circa 1920s

Francis Bacon / Monument
LORD FRANCIS BACON Viscount St Albans - monument erected in St Michaels Church, St Albans, to commemorate the English statesman and writer Date: 1561 - 1626

Japan - Creating a miniature Bonseki landscape
Japan - Bonseki - the ancient Japanese art of creating miniature landscapes on black lacquer trays using white sand, pebbles, and small rocks

Japan - Music Teacher playing a Shamisen (or Samisen). The alcove behind her is called the tokonoma and is the pride of the house Date: 1932

Sitting on the window seat
Children with book and toys seated in a cosy window alcove. Date: circa 1930

James Thomson Alcove
The arbour or alcove in the garden of the cottage in Kew (or Kew-foot) Lane, near Richmond, Surrey, where the poet James Thomson was oft- times visited by his muse. Date: 18TH CENTURY

Toko i. e. an alcove with customary ornaments
Farmer spading. Drawing shows a man using a large wooden spade. Date 1878 Sep

Labor by Charles Sprague Pearce
Labor - from the Family and Education series by Charles Sprague Pearce. Found in the North Corridor, Great Hall, Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C

A pair of long-eared owls, one large, one small, inside a shallow alcove in Paradise Park, a wildlife sanctuary in Hayle, Cornwall. The long-eared owl is medium-sized

A tourist before an elaborate Turkish carved alcove, showing fine technique in relief work and beautiful sculpted patternation

The Alcove, Kensington Gardens, Kensington Palace, London

Arabian street Cafe scene - Cairo, Egypt. Men sit and drink and chat on the street and in the alcove recess behind the coffee / tea stall

Furniture Disturbed
A family return home to find the parlour furniture moved - pictures on the floor, coal scuttle & fire tongs in the alcove, chairs balanced on tables - all topsy-turvy

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