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A Cottage at Chiddingfold, Surrey, by Helen Allingham, watercolor, 1889

A Cottage at Chiddingfold, Surrey

Helen Allingham

1889

watercolor

From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum

Dominant colour

Overview

A Cottage at Chiddingfold, Surrey is a 1889 watercolor by Helen Allingham, a Impressionism work, depicting Cottage, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.

Who painted this?
Helen Allingham
When & what style?
1889 · Impressionism
Where can I see it?
Victoria and Albert Museum

The story of this work

Overview

Watercolour painting titled *A Cottage at Chiddingfold, Surrey* by Helen Allingham, dated 1889. The scene depicts a red-brick cottage with blossoming trees and a green lawn, framed as a rural ideal. A woman carrying a bundle of white laundry looks back toward another woman holding a baby, positioned near a gate at the cottage entrance. The work was reproduced in *Happy England* (1903), with a description and memoir by Marcus Huish and Allingham.

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About the artist

Artist

Helen Allingham

Helen Allingham painted watercolors of English cottages and quiet landscapes in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

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