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nigelswift Oct 7, 2006 12:14:50

This thread is intended to be in conjunction with Littlestone's Megalithic Poems thread and his most excellent blog of the same name http://megalithicpoems.blogspot.com/

Hopefully it will give him a good source of material for there.

N nigelswift
nigelswift Oct 7, 2006 12:19:37
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http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/46963

L Littlestone
Littlestone Oct 7, 2006 12:27:28
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And may I be the first to congratulate you on the inauguration of this most excellent Thread :-)

C CianMcLiam
CianMcLiam Oct 7, 2006 13:42:28
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I really like this:
http://www.bennettcelticart.com/scottish-art/standing-stone-circle.html

N nigelswift
nigelswift Oct 7, 2006 15:42:38
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Said to be destroyed in 1869 and I can't find much about it but see the sheep for scale!
http://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/pages/0041-Constantine-Tolman,-Cornwall/
“It is one vast egg-like stone thirty-three feet in length, eighteen feet in width, and fourteen feet and a half in thickness, placed on the points of two natural rocks, so that a man may creep under it.”

Was it man-made and was it that size?

L Littlestone
Littlestone Oct 7, 2006 19:31:25
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View from West Kennet Long Barrow by John Piper (1944)

http://www.johnpiper.org.uk/view-from-west-kennet-long-barrow-1944.JPG

L Littlestone
Littlestone Oct 7, 2006 20:20:33
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Two Standing Stones in Dyfed by John Piper (Jane's going to flip when she gets back and sees what we've been up to. (I feel like a naughty boy with a box of crayons ;-)

http://www.johnpiper.org.uk/two-standing-stones-in-dyfed.JPG

K Kozmik_Ken
Kozmik_Ken Oct 8, 2006 09:26:23
Replying to nigelswift

Paul Nash painted a lot of Megalithic Paintings... mostly based around Avebury. Here's a small selection. Field of Megaliths in Leeds Art Gallery is a beauty if you can find a pic.

http://www.rennart.co.uk/nash.html

C CianMcLiam
CianMcLiam Oct 10, 2006 01:28:43
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http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/52436

Artist Richard Moore painting Newgrange by moonlight on 10/10/06, follow the links under that post to see more of Richards wonderful paintings of the Boyne Valley monuments...

L Littlestone
Littlestone Oct 13, 2006 10:47:00
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Picked up an engraving of Trevethy Stone on the web last night - dated 1845 so it's probably the one by Charles Knight (there was no accompanying pic but for the princely sum of twenty quid I took a chance). It's hand coloured so it might be a different one - fingers crossed.

L Littlestone
Littlestone Oct 13, 2006 17:20:57
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A stunning new image of West Kennet Long barrow by Thelma Wilcox at -

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=267936146&size=o

W whipangel
whipangel Oct 15, 2006 14:40:24
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I've previously posted a sketch of this site to it's entry (http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/71#images), here's the oil painting that followed.

http://whipangel.co.uk/artwork/landscape.php?id=ulverstoncircle_thumb.jpg

L Littlestone
Littlestone Oct 17, 2006 21:26:55
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"In Stone-henge & on London Stone & in the Oak Groves of Malden..."*

* http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6094/1623/400/Jerusalem%20The%20Emanation%20of%20The%20Giant%20Albion.jpg

N nigelswift
nigelswift Oct 18, 2006 08:46:41
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Mr Mercury sings at Stonehenge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWb2INziR2E
(well I really like it anyway).
Just before halfway along.

M Mr Hamhead
Mr Hamhead Nov 13, 2006 09:29:34
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Attended a very interesting talk on saturday night given by lady called Dr Annie Anderson, who I believe teaches at Southampton Uni. It was on art and ancient landscapes and did the full spectrum from gothic ruins to dolmens and circles. Lots of stuff by Piper and Samuel Palmer and also a lot of Paul Nash...that I don't like!

A man called Thomas Hearne was mentioned who did I think it was said a whole series of Stonehenge images back in the late 1700s.

Also mentioned were the Ruralists who are still busy painting the landscape etc down here in Cornwall.

As i sat being bombarded by images I thought a lot of Jane's work, it would have fitted in very well.

It was also mentioned that Southampton Uni will be putting on an exibition of all this work in early 2008..keep an eye out Goff! and that it might tour the country.

Mr H

R rocknicker
rocknicker Nov 16, 2006 08:59:46
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not sure if this has been posted before:

http://www.dface.co.uk/images/shop/large/Stonedhenge.jpg

R rocknicker
rocknicker Nov 26, 2006 08:37:49
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I visited Kelvingrove in Glasgow yesterday and saw this:

The Fairy Raid: Carrying off a Changeling – Midsummer Eve, 1867, Sir Joseph Noel Paton (1821-1901), oil on canvas, 90.5 x 146.7cm

Full of pretty imagery however the blurb said that it was a sinister painting depicting the faires coming to steal away a baby and leave an ugly changeling in its place.

T tomwatts
tomwatts Nov 26, 2006 10:42:54
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It looks like it could do with a good scrub.

N nigelswift
nigelswift Nov 28, 2006 10:28:09
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Just discovered!

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1957926,00.html

F follow that cow
follow that cow Nov 30, 2006 23:13:11
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Constable http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/11805

v

Turner http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/13941

An almost identical painting, 11 years apart, by two masters, both said to have laid the foundations for impressionism. How awesome is that.

If I had to choose (I wish!), I'd plump for John's.
Why?
Although both are radiant and sublime and brilliant; John's surprises me. Everytime!

Any views, anyone?

'Art for arts sake
Money for Gods sake' - The other 'Lovin Spoonful'.

L Littlestone
Littlestone Dec 1, 2006 18:28:36
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"There are three drawings: of the North side, the West side, and the South-West side. They are executed in watercolour. The drawings of the Stone from the North side show every evidence of care and attention to detail... That these drawings are in the main correct, allowing for a certain degree of "artist's licence," appears to be substantiated by the similarity between Gough's drawing of the Stone from the West side, and the drawing by Bloxam from the same aspect made in 1865, and reproduced in the "Transactions of the Birmingham Archaeology Society" for 1874 (Vol. V: "Sepulchral Monuments of Warwickshire.")."*

* From Appendix 3, Gough's Drawings of the King's Stone in the Bodleian Library (Gough MSS) in The Rollright Stones and The Men Who Erected Them by T H Ravenhill. Cornish brothers Ltd. 1932.

L Littlestone
Littlestone Jan 2, 2007 18:25:25
Replying to nigelswift

An article in the latest issue of the journal, Studies in Conservation, reports on the condition of the walls of the Great Hall of the Bulls in the prehistoric cave of Lascaux and warns of, "...the appearance of damp areas on the walls due to the microclimate in the chamber. If water evaporates from the walls, this could lead to crystal growth and the appearance of a calcite film obliterating the rock surface in general and, more importantly, the painted figures."*

The threat seems to be from two distinct, and natural, hydrological 'regimes' within the chamber and not to human activity (though human activity outside the chamber might be affecting what goes on within it :-( Whatever, it would be a tragedy beyond belief if these prehistoric paintings were lost.

* Studies in Conservation. Journal of the International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works. Vol. 51, No. 4, page 251.

W whipangel
whipangel Mar 2, 2007 14:54:15
Replying to nigelswift

I couldn't find the thread where we discussed the megalithic paintings of Paul Nash, so I'm dropping this in here.

Should anyone be planning a visit, Paul Nash's 'Landscape of the Moon's Last Phase', a view of Wittenham Clumps, is no longer on view at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.

I will try and find out if it's on loan or in storage - there was certainly a gap on the wall and I couldn't find it elswhere.

C Chris
Chris Mar 2, 2007 15:19:24
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I'd completely forgotten about this thread so it seems a good place to volunteer this painting of Callanish:

http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/55341

Painted by the extremely talented Kathryn Crocker from one of my feeble photos. It really does look even better 'in the flesh' you can really see the moonlight glimmering of Loch Roag....

L Littlestone
Littlestone Mar 30, 2007 20:27:37
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Posted by David Swindlehurst on the Stones Mailing List - www.oxfordarch.co.uk/ Interesting, and a new one on me.