Traditionally, a commonplace book was a journal in which an individual recorded his or her thoughts - or material from the work of others - which seemed relevant at the time. This is mine.
Saturday, 9 May 2009
Gentlemen at leisure
This painting by Emerson shows the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) reclining with friends outside the Northumberland house of Cragside, in 1884. This house was the first in the world to be lit using hydroelectricity.
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