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Hardy's fictional countryside meets real Dorset villages in prints from Wessex, painted by Walter Tyndale, described by Cliv...

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Hardy's fictional countryside meets real Dorset villages in prints from Wessex, painted by Walter Tyndale, described by Clive Holland and published by Adam & Charles Black in London in 1906. Sherborne, Corfe, Wareham, Dorchester and smaller places appear, some identified with their counterparts in the Wessex novels and others painted for their own sake. Churches, cottages, inns and dairy farms share the pages with heathland, river valleys and ruined abbeys, and Somerset subjects around Wells and Glastonbury take the journey beyond Dorset.

Hardy's fictional countryside meets real Dorset villages in prints from Wessex, painted by Walter Tyndale, described by Clive Holland and published by Adam & Charles Black in London in 1906. Sherborne, Corfe, Wareham, Dorchester and smaller places appear, some identified with their counterparts in the Wessex novels and others painted for their own sake. Churches, cottages, inns and dairy farms share the pages with heathland, river valleys and ruined abbeys, and Somerset subjects around Wells and Glastonbury take the journey beyond Dorset.

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