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Title |
Cobblestone Christmas |
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Size |
12" x 18", 18" x 27" |
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Issue Date |
2004 |
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Availability* |
Not Sold Out
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Description |
You made this ancient stone bridge an artistic monument that I must revisit. When I issued Cobblestone Bridge some years ago, this celebration of life in the Hampshire region of England quickly became the best loved of all my village scenes. |
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As I considered subjects for a Christmas painting this year, my thoughts turned to the familiar charms of southwestern England, and I decided to return to the scene of my former inspiration. Not, this time, on a ramble with Nanette through snowy English f |
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Cobblestone Christmas features a bridge spanning a free-flowing brook, a church, a comfortable inn - all constructed with flat stones that abound in the fields. The thatched roofs, built up from bundles of reeds, are crowned with snow; many are also frame |
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Light spills from the windows of every home and suffuses into the crisp winter air, where it mingles with the incandescent fires of the setting sun. God and man have truly collaborated in a celebration of the season. |
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~ Thomas Kinkade |
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