1912 Photogravure Garden Door George Frederic Watts Limnerslease Flowers XADA9 OL2 Sitka Spruce

Sitka Spruce

This is an original 1918 black and white print ad for cabinet made furniture

" featuring an image from a window which overlooks the courtyard of the Château du Bréau

"Selasphorus Platycercus"

This is an original 1936 color print ad for the Gulf Oil Corporation and Gulf Refining Company

1912 Photogravure Garden Door George Frederic Watts Limnerslease Flowers XADA9 OL2 Sitka SpruceThis is an original 1912 black and white photogravure of the garden doorway from the house that Watts and his new wife, Mary Fraser Tytler, bought and named "Limnerslease," which combined the words "limner" (artist) with "leasen" (glean.) They also built the Watts Gallery nearby which was a museum dedicated to his work the first (and now the only) purpose built gallery in Britain devoted to a single artist which opened shortly before his death.