Saturday, June 13, 2020

Drawing of English Inn



In 1921 Cecil Aldin (1870-1935) sketched the Talbot Inn in pencil and watercolor. It was used as an illustration for "Old English Inns."
Posted by James Gurney at Saturday, June 13, 2020

5 comments:

nuum said...

Cecil is also known for his illustrations of his world-famous dogs Cracker and Micky
in the wonderful book "Sleeping Partners" (1930).
Paulo - Rio

June 13, 2020 at 8:08 PM
James Gurney said...

Paulo, yes, I did a post about his wonderful sleeping dog drawings: https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-sleeping-dogs-of-cecil-aldin.html

June 14, 2020 at 6:58 AM
Susan Krzywicki said...

That is wonderful.

June 14, 2020 at 9:05 AM
nuum said...

James,

When his health began to decline, Aldin and his wife Rita moved to Majorca,
taking Cracker and Micky with them.

Unfortunately, Micky never really acclimatized to his new surroundings.
He died from heart failure just a year after the move to Majorca.

On January, 6th, 1935, while Aldin was away on a visit to London, Cracker – back home in Majorca – started to howl in a most extraordinary and unprecedented fashion. It was several hours later that the news reached Rita Aldin that her husband had died from a heart attack in the London Clinic. She could not ascribe the terrier’s behavior to anything other than a reaction to the severing of a psychic link between the man and the dog.

https://vulpeslibris.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/the-life-and-sleeping-partners-of-cecil-aldin/

Paulo - Rio

June 15, 2020 at 9:40 AM
nuum said...

James,

When his health began to decline, Aldin and his wife Rita moved to Majorca,
taking Cracker and Micky with them.

Unfortunately, Micky never really acclimatized to his new surroundings.
He died from heart failure just a year after the move to Majorca.

On January, 6th, 1935 while Aldin was away on a visit to London, Cracker – back home in Majorca – started to howl in a most extraordinary and unprecedented fashion. It was several hours later that the news reached Rita Aldin that her husband had died from a heart attack in the London Clinic. She could not ascribe the terrier’s behavior to anything other than a reaction to the severing of a psychic link between the man and the dog.


https://vulpeslibris.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/the-life-and-sleeping-partners-of-cecil-aldin/

Paulo - Rio

June 15, 2020 at 9:42 AM

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