Our guest blogger is Gordon Cochrane Home. An artist, traveller and writer, Gordon visited Normandy at the beginning of the 20th century.
This week Gordon is sharing illustrations of chateau Gaillard, Saint-Lô, Ouistreham, Domfront, Vire, Rouen and a Normandy farm. These paintings first appeared in his book ‘Normandy Illustrated, the Scenery & Romance Of Its Ancient Towns’ published in 1905.
‘The great western towers of the church of Notre Dame at Saint-Lô. They are of different dates, and differ in the arcading and other ornament.’ GH
Ouistreham
‘Looking south from ramparts of the castle at Domfront. Down below can be seen the river Varennes, and to the left of the railway the little Norman Church of Notre-Dame-sur-l’Eau.’ GH
The clock gate, Vire
‘The cathedral at Rouen. Showing a peep of the Portail de la Calende, and some of the quaint houses of the oldest part of the City.’ GH
‘A typical Normandy farm. The curious little thatched mushroom above the cart is to be found in most of the Norman farms.’ GH
Today our blogger is regular guest Gordon Cochrane Home. A watercolour artist, traveller and writer, Gordon visited Normandy at the beginning of the 20th century. Gordon is sharing beautiful illustrations of Avranches, the river Seine, Lisieux, Coutances and Bayeux. These paintings first appeared in his book 'Normandy Illustrated, the Scenery & Romance Of Its Ancient Towns'…
Chateau de Sully, near Bayeux, June 1944 by Anthony Gross First published here 2017 Although photographs remember a moment, an event, war artists see the emotion in a war; how people live within it, the minutiae of daily life as they prepare, wait, fight, suffer and celebrate. Faced with the vastness of war, war artists…
Our guest blogger today is Cook’s Handbook for Normandy (and Brittany) from 1883. Excerpts include traveler advice, the Norman character and scenery. Every town and larger village are described, but for this match we have included a visitor guide to Bayeux. We expected the handbook to be a little dry but it is sprinkled with personal…
Very interesting to note the kind of illustrated “travel books” our parents and grandparents relied upon.
These extracts, and the illustrations remind me of a similar publication left to me by my father and dated 1905.. Simply titled Normandy by Nico Jungman and published by A&C Black. Nico Jungman was the Illustrator and the Text was written by G.E.Mitton. They have a charm not found in some of todays Guidebooks.
Ouch…all these bombed places… except the farm, I hope;) BEAUTIFUL!
Very interesting to note the kind of illustrated “travel books” our parents and grandparents relied upon.
These extracts, and the illustrations remind me of a similar publication left to me by my father and dated 1905.. Simply titled Normandy by Nico Jungman and published by A&C Black. Nico Jungman was the Illustrator and the Text was written by G.E.Mitton. They have a charm not found in some of todays Guidebooks.