The life and paintings of Vicat Cole, RA. . WATER-LILIES. D ON THE THAMES. THE SOURCES OF THE THAMES. Where, crowned with flowerets and green herbs,The infant river to the sun conies forth,Like human life from darkness. HIS, the first picture of the series in localorder, was painted in 1882 from studiesmade in May, 1881. It was no easy matterto determine what spot has the honour ofseeing the first welling of the springswhich form the source of the river. As many placeslay claim to being the birthplace of the Thames as. THE SOURCES OF THE THAMES. L9 cities the birthplace of Homer. After much in
The life and paintings of Vicat Cole, RA. . WATER-LILIES. D ON THE THAMES. THE SOURCES OF THE THAMES. Where, crowned with flowerets and green herbs,The infant river to the sun conies forth,Like human life from darkness. HIS, the first picture of the series in localorder, was painted in 1882 from studiesmade in May, 1881. It was no easy matterto determine what spot has the honour ofseeing the first welling of the springswhich form the source of the river. As many placeslay claim to being the birthplace of the Thames as. THE SOURCES OF THE THAMES. L9 cities the birthplace of Homer. After much inquiryand many journeys, Vicat Cole satisfied himself thatthe true source of the river is at a spot called theSeven Springs/ a few miles from Cheltenham inGloucestershire. The place where the fountains of the great riverfirst issue from the rocks, much as it is to be venerated,is not a promising subject for a picture. But theartist lias thrown over it a glamour of his a spring day,, when the ground was gaywith flowers and the trees just breaking into leaf, hehas surrounded the infant stream with the charms ofthe budding season of the year, and made his picturea study of new birth alike of rivulet and plant. Nofigure is introduced ; the ring-doves only add to theloneliness, which is as complete as it is its later course the stream will flow past the hauntsof men, serving their pleasure or business, and willgather round it an ever-increasing volume of humaninterests. But here the solitu
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