Thirlestaine House, Cheltenham
1942
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1942
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Thirlestaine House, Cheltenham is a 1942 watercolor by Ginger, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This watercolour painting shows a large house with a garden. The house is white and has many windows. There are big trees and bushes in the garden. A person is pushing a wheelbarrow on the path. The painting is very detailed. You can see the leaves on the trees and the flowers in the garden. The sky is light blue and cloudy. If you like this painting, you might also like the work of artist Ginger.
This watercolour by Ginger, dated 1942, depicts Thirlestaine House in Cheltenham, showing a gardener pushing a wheelbarrow across the lawn with the artist’s portfolio placed against a tree in the foreground. Part of the *Recording Britain* collection, it was created under a wartime scheme that employed artists to document the British landscape and national identity during the Second World War. Funded by the Pilgrim Trust and overseen by Sir Kenneth Clark, the project aimed to record places at risk from bomb damage, urban expansion, and changing rural life. The initiative also sought to…
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This artist painted quiet London and provincial streets in watercolour around 1940.
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