Gloomy Collection (page 2)

When the Land is White with Winter: A Frosty Morning
Double page colour photograph of When The Land Is White With Winter: A Frosty Morning, by Harry W Adams, as published in the Sketch of 12th December 1928

A Spring storm sweeping over the Valley of River Arno, Italy. Date: 1905

Tuscan Olive Gardens and the hills of the Casentino on a misty morning. Date: 1905

French women knitting in wine cellar, Rheims, WW1
French women knitting comforts for soldiers in a gloomy wine cellar, dimly lit by candles in Rheims, a refuge from shell-fire in the frequently bombarded city. Date: 1914

Rawalpindi outgunned by Deutschland by G. H. Davis
The first sea battle of the Second World War: the British armed merchant cruiser Rawalpindis heroic stand, outgunned by the Deutschland

Dean Inge Photo
WILLIAM RALPH INGE - English churchman, professor of divinity, author, known as the gloomy Dean (of St Pauls), wearing the weird garb of senior churchmen. Date: 1860 - 1954

Trafalgar Square, London - At Night - The misty form of The Church of St Martin in the Fields can be seen past the silhouettes of one of the four bronze lions, on granite plinths

The honesty of an Elderly Irish Woman - Mortality
Mrs Murphy - " Shure its goin to be a moighty hard winter, Father dear; there ll be a moighty lot av us owld Folks Nipped in the BUd, oi m thinking." Date: circa 1890s

The interior of a traditional Dutch cottage at Volendam - a Dutch woman talking to he seated Mother Date: 1898

The Charm of a London Night Fog - amazing lighting effects as the beam of a street light diffuses through the shape of a roadside tree. Date: 1919

Doing the Lakes - Rain in the Lake District disturbing the enjoyment of ones holiday! Twixt Mist and Rain and Lake and Mere, We re never short of water here. Date: 1930s

Potsdamer Platz, Berlin - at night Date: circa 1920s

Absinthe drinkers in a Paris cafe
Absinthe drinkers (Verlaine and his companions) in a Paris cafe. Date: 1907

Laying railway track
Gangs of railway labourers work on the laying of a new section of track running beneath a bridge. The lamps held by the navvies cast spectral traces of light across the gloomy atmospheric scene

Keeping Home Fires Burning
Humorous depiction of a cheery soldier and sailor home on leave during World War I and feeling that the pessimism of the Home Front

News from Paris
At the poste restante at Saint-Denis, on the outskirts of Paris, letters from the city bring news, mostly gloomy

Mushrooms at home 19C
A variety of mushrooms growing in a wood

Rossetti / Lewis Carroll
DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poet and Pre-Raphaelite artist

Figure in the Mist
A hunched figure walking away into the mist in a public park or garden, along a path bordered by high hedge trees. Photograph by Norman Synge Waller Budd

A Captured Deserter
A captured deserter led through the streets

Hawthorne / Seven Gables
Depiction of the house. Date: First published: 1851

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