Theme Explorer

Start Again > Location > Compton Verney - Compton Verney House Trust - Collections
Page 3 of 13 229 Records Found

Comb-back Windsor armchair - front

This chair is made of ash and has a waved toprail, in-curved front arm supports and four splayed legs. It was originally painted green. Two legs are probably old replacements. The chair comes from England's ...

Comb-back Windsor armchair - side

This chair is made of ash and has a waved toprail, in-curved front arm supports and four splayed legs. It was originally painted green. Two legs are probably old replacements. The chair comes from England's ...

Country Fete

This oil painting on panel depicts people at a fete in the grounds of a house and was painted by the English School about 1840. It was originally joined to another panel called 'Country Procession'. ...

Country Fete and Procession

These are two panel paintings which were originally joined which are painted by an English School about 1840. One shows people at a fete in the grounds of a house, and the other, people arriving at the ...

Country Procession

This panel painting depicts people arriving at a Country Fete on foot, horseback and by carriage. Some are making a tour of the allotment gardens. This painting was originally joined to Country Fete, ...

Daisy the Cow

This is an oil painting on canvas depicting a black and white cow called Daisy, and her calf. There are also two swans on a pond. The inscription on the reverse 'Plumber, Glazier and Painter,Pumps of ...

Daisy the Cow - reverse

This is the reverse of an oil painting on canvas depicting a black and white cow called Daisy, and her calf. There are also two swans on a pond. The inscription on the reverse 'Plumber, Glazier and Painter, ...

Ditcher's shovel

This is a typical wooden ditcher's shovel. The wrought-iron blade bears an indistinct maker's name. It is British and dates from 1850 to 1900. Height 143mm, Length 920mm, Width 270mm

Duck Shooting

This is an oil painting on canvas of a duck shooting scene. In the foreground is a man with a rifle and his two dogs. The man is shooting at two ducks, one of which is falling to the ground. The painting ...

Duck Shooting - detail

This is an oil painting on canvas of a duck shooting scene. In the foreground is a man with a rifle and his two dogs. The man is shooting at two ducks, one of which is falling to the ground. The painting ...

Dug-out seat - back

This partly-painted seat is made from a solid piece of a birch tree trunk. It has an arched back, a pierced carrying-handle, a solid seat and a waisted plinth base. Dug-out seats used to be known as 'treetrunk ...

Dug-out seat - detail of back

This partly-painted seat is made from a solid piece of a birch tree trunk. It has an arched back, a pierced carrying-handle, a solid seat and a waisted plinth base. Dug-out seats used to be known as 'treetrunk ...

Dug-out seat - front

This partly-painted seat is made from a solid piece of a birch tree trunk. It has an arched back, a pierced carrying-handle, a solid seat and a waisted plinth base. Dug-out seats used to be known as 'treetrunk ...

Eastwood's Crown Brewery

This is an oil painting on canvas depicting Eastwood's Crown Brewery. There is a painted inscription in the lower left corner which reads 'EASTWOOD'S CROWN BREWERY'. There is also another inscription ...

Family Group

This is an oil painting on canvas depicting a family group (father, mother, son and daughter) seated indoors, but the family are unknown. The two children are holding books which might be prayer books ...

Farmer and his Prize Heifer

This is an oil painting on canvas depicting Henry Hamilton, a servant of farmer Ralph Walker, holding the rope of a prize heifer. It was painted by an artist of the English Provincial School about 1844. ...

Feline Friends

This is an oil painting on canvas depicting two cats and was painted by the English Provincial School about 1870. At this time, paintings of horses and hounds were more usually by professional artists, ...

Fire improver bellows

This is a set of mechanical bellows with a nozzle, drum and mahogany handle. It is just possible to read the maker's name - Clark - on the drum. Embossed on the drum are the Royal Arms flanked by 'No ...