These twelve images were for a calendar. They are undated and I don’t know for whom they were made. I have attributed a month to each according to the subjects. Some are obvious such as November but others such as May and June may be incorrect.
January- shooting.
February – sowing
March – winds
April – showers
May – paradise This picture recalls the well-known quatrain from Fitzgerald’s translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
Here with a loaf of bread beneath the bough, A flask of wine, a book of verse – and Thou Beside me singing in the wilderness – And wilderness is paradise enow.
There seems to have been a role reversal as it is the young man who is singing while the young woman holds a bunch of flowers.
June – proposal
He loves me, he loves me not …
July – punting
August – fishing
September – ploughing
October – hunting
November – Guy Fawkes
December – pantomime
Charles Paine A.R.C.A. 