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Hillside cottage

Helen Allinghamcirca 1889

Art Gallery of New South Wales

Art Gallery of New South Wales
Sydney, Australia

Helen Allingham focused increasingly on cottage subjects following her move in 1881 to the small village of Sandhills in Surrey. Inspired by her love for the unspoilt character of the English countryside and its vernacular buildings, Allingham’s watercolours were phenomenally successful among the urban middle classes before the First World War brought an end to her popularity. Behind her sugar-coated vision of rural life was a desire to record old cottages threatened by progress and to commemorate traditional ways of life that were disappearing before the artist’s eyes.

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  • Title: Hillside cottage
  • Creator: Helen Allingham
  • Date Created: circa 1889
  • Physical Dimensions: 39.2 x 32.0 cm image/sheet; 57.0 x 51.5 x 3.5 cm frame
  • Provenance: Fine Art Society (London), London/England, Purchased by the AGNSW from the Fine Art Society in 1889
  • Type: Watercolour
  • Rights: Purchased 1889
  • External Link: https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/1051/
  • Medium: watercolour and scraping out
  • Signature & Date: Signed l.r., "H. Allingham". Not dated.
  • Artist Country: England
Art Gallery of New South Wales

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