# summer fire ivies

'During the season, when there are no fires in the drawing-room, tastefully-decorated screens fitted into the have a charming effect...The best plants ... are the common or variegated A. Hassard, 1875
Treatment of a Georgian fireplace. R. Felton, 1910

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The Pater Familias, study for a print; an interior with the father carefully feeding his baby, watched by his wife who holds some laundry in front of the fire-place
Adriaen van Ostade, c. 1648.

A side of 17thC masculinity you don't often see depicted.

(British Museum)

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