Solitude Collection

Girl Reading in Tree
A little girl hides, high up in a linden tree, reading her book

Old man, Burford, Cotswolds
An old man with a very sad face, sits in a stone shelter and smokes a cigarette. Burford, Oxfordshire, Cotswolds, England. He looks very lonely. Outside it is a lovely sunny day

China Clay - The Monk. Florence Mary Anderson / Molly MacArthur (1893-1972) had two distinct styles of illustration. From the middle of the 1920s

Cartoon, The Antichrist, WW1
Cartoon, The Antichrist will lose his crown and will die in solitude and madness (quotation from a prophecy of Brother Johannes), showing Kaiser Wilhelm II running mad with blood on his hands

Takaboko, Bay of Nagasaki, Japan
19th century vintage photograph: Takaboko, Bay of Nagasaki, Japan

Henry Welby, the Grub Street Hermit. He managed to live in solitude in the middle of London. 16th century

Robinson Crusoe on the beach
Robinson Crusoe walking with his dog on the beach of his desert island

Great flowered Heath, Bright red Heath, Porcelain Heath, Solitude. Handcoloured lithograph by Dean and Munday after an illustration by Eliza Eve Gleadall from The Beauties of Flora

Byrons Early Love by E M Ward. 19th century

Our Lady of Solitude

Woman in pink shawl, Lake Egirdir
Woman wearing pink head scarf sits of a patterned green Turkish carpet at Kale beside the blue emptiness of Lake Egirdir, Turkey Date: circa 1995

Solitude - Empty Rowing Boat by a Lake
Solitude. An empty rowing boat with oars resting across the sides, rests propped up on some small rocks close to a large lake, glowing in the evening light. An airbrush painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Gull swoops above an empty rowing boat
A gull swoops above an empty rowing boat with oars resting across the sides. The boat rests propped up on some small rocks close to a large lake, glowing in the evening light

Playing the Alpenhorn on banks of the Falensee, Switzerland
Playing the Alpenhorn on the banks of the Falensee, a lake in the Alpstein range of the canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden, Switzerland. Date: circa 1930s

Contemplation - Young child sits beneath an arch - Tunisia Date: circa 1920s

Solitude, Banbridge, Co. Down - a view along a river, with buildings to the right and a bridge across in the distance. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Down; Banbridge). Date: circa early 1900s

Monaco Casino - Nothing Doing / No More - the war has brought a cessation to gambling, leaving this poor player all alone! Date: 1916

The Single Life - Living on his punt
The Single Life - A young gent living alone on his punt Date: 1907

Saint Cuthbert / Farne Isl
SAINT CUTHBERT Alone on Farne Island, where he lived as a hermit Date: 635? - 687

David Kaapua in one-man village, Hawaii, USA
David Kaapua (Kaapuawaokamehameha) in his one-man village, Hawaii, USA. Date: 1935

Miss Margaret Whigham seeks sylvan solitude
Exhausted from her relentless socialising (and appearances in society magazines like The Bystander!), Miss Margaret Whigham (1912-1993), later Mrs Charles Sweeny, then Duchess of Argyll

An Old Maids Honeymoon - she flies away in a lemon balloon with her pet cat, crow and yellow canaries. The anchor bears the word hope. Date: 1910

Sunset over Sorfjorden, Hardanger, Norway
Sunset over Sorfjorden, a 38 km-long fjord arm of the Hardangerfjord in Hordaland county, Norway. Date: early 1950s

Altarpiece of Nuestra Se񯲡de la Soledad (Virgin
Altarpiece of Nuestra Se񯲡 de la Soledad (Virgin of Solitude) circa 1500. Flemish art. Tempera on wood. SPAIN. Barcelona. Frederic Mares Museum

Far From the Madding Crowd
Sequential cartoon showing a couple of intrepid campers determined to get away from it all, and hiking up hill, down dale and through a a river

Solovetsky Monastery - The Holy Lake
Russia, Solovky Islands, Solovetsky: Solovetsky Monastery seen across the Holy Lake. A solitary lone pilgrim sits on a jetty at the waters edge. 2010

Newfoundland and Labrador - Man paddling a canoe
Newfoundland and Labrador - Man (Billy Nuttall) paddling a canoe Date: circa 1910

Solitary Swan
Solitude - a solitary swan on Scotland Lake, Grendon, Northamptonshire, England, a lake on the estate of Lord Northampton. Date: 1960s

Little child sitting on a fence
A little child sits in a huddled pose on top of a five-bar gate in the country. first published 1881

Double page spread in a diary for 14-19 May
A double page spread in a young persons diary for 14-19 May. Each day is given a small illustration, relating either to the season, or to the anniversary of an historical event

Philomel and Procne
PHILOMEL AND PROCNE Procne tries to persuade her sister Philomel to come back to the city, but she prefers to remain in solitude (from Greek mythology)

Miss Muffet (Greenaway)
Sufferers from arachnophobia will sympathise with little miss Muffet who, seeking to enjoy her curds and whey in solitude, finds her picnic gatecrashed by a spider

Byron and Spirit
Byron himself - the Pilgrim - wishes that he could leave the world and enjoy solitude with one fair spirit for my minister

Bismarck / Rohling / Page 38
Bismarck pays his last respects at the tomb of Kaiser Wilhelm I

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