Further to earlier posts about the artist
EW Haslehust, whose work appears as illustrations in a number of early 20th century regional guides, I just scanned these images from
Our Beautiful Homeland - Canterbury: Winchester: Isle of Wight : Swanage (191?, Gresham Publishing, text by Edward Thomas, Sidney Heath and Canon Danks). I've seen some of these plates before, but they're a nice batch: I rather like it that Haslehust - unlike a lot of broadly similar artists; compare the very prettified watercolours by E Hadfield to
A Driving Tour in the Isle of Wight- doesn't shy away from depicting the landscape in a sombre mood, as in the warts-and-all picture below of the smoky Newport as seen from the Medina.
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| The Old Church, Bonchurch |
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| The Needles |
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| Shanklin Downs, early spring |
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| Newport, from the Medina |
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| Steephill Cove |
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| Bembridge Harbour |
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| Godshill |
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| In Freshwater Bay |
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| Blackgang Chine |
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| Ventnor from the Steephill Walk |
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| Cowes |
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| Carisbrooke Castle |
- Ray
