Blazing on the Hearth, The Father Recounting the History to His Children, or History of the Acorn, Julius Caesar Ibbetson (d 1817). Courtesy of Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection.
Always, in cold weather the best place to be is around the hearth. These delightful scenes will warm the cockles of your heart when Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold stops us from venturing outdoors.
Home fires on a cold night. The stormy night, date & artist unknown. Courtesy of Wellcome Images.
Men smoking round the hearth, by Captain William Baillie. Courtesy of Trustees of British Museum.
Home fires on a cold night Family seated by the hearth [at Ambleside]. 1843 Courtesy of Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Winter [or The Goblin Story], after Hamilton, 1795. Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum.
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