The Dorking Road, Coldhardbour, in Snow . Lucien Pissarro (1863-1944). 1916. Oil on canvas. H 35.5 x W 45.7 cm. Collection: Manchester Art Gallery. Accession number 1925.298; gift from Charles Lambert Rutherston, 1925. Kindly made available via Art UK on the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives licence (CC BY-NC-ND).

In December 1916, the Pissarros left their cottage in Fishpond, Dorset, and went to stay in another one in Coldharbour, Surrey, near Dorking. The new place was called Ivy Cottage and they rented it for just a guinea a week, including "attendance and light" (Meadmore 152). The highest village in the lovely Surrey Hills, with extensive views, Coldharbour was popular with writers and artists of all kinds (the area is strongly associated with the composer, Ralph Vaughan Williams, for example), and Pissarro found its attractions even in the winter months. — Jacqueline Banerjee

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Bibliography

Catalogue Entry for Ivy Cottage, Coldharbour: Sun and Snow, 1916 (part of "The Camden Town Group in Context" project). Tate. Web. 14 August 2020.

Meadmore, William Sutton. Lucien Pissarro: Un Coeur Simple. New York: Knopf, 1963.


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