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Painting, oil painting, The Rookery, Dalston Hall,
Dalston, Cumberland, by William James Blacklock, 1854.
The Rookery 1854 oil on canvas by William James Blacklock .
This oil painting shows Dalston Hall near Carlisle
surrounded by ancient trees on a summer's day. A young
couple wearing seventeenth century dress walk along the path
leading to the hall, their backs to the viewer. To right, a
second couple sit and a another woman stands in parkland
beside the trees which surround the hall. Distant fells rise
beyond sloping woodland. The figures cast strong shadows and
almost have a photographic quality. The painting was
exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1854. In this painting we
can see Blacklock's characteristic and very unusual painting
style. The trees are almost three dimensional.
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