Iluminations: catalogue - greeting cards

Welcome to the greeting card section of Alison's 2002/2003 catalogue. To view a larger version of each of the cards below, simply click on the relevant image. Remember, though, that the larger version has a bigger file size and will take longer to call in.

Prices are displayed with each of the cards – if you would like to place an order, please contact Alison. You can find out contact details here.

Don't forget that when you have browsed through the cards in the new catalogue, you can visit the gallery section, which features more of Alison's paintings, some of which are also available to buy as cards.

Bathtime
• Actual size: 120mm x 120mm
• No printed message
• Price (per card): £1.20

Although considered by some to be an effete and degenerate practice, "an hote bath of swete watre" presented medieval bathers with the opportunity to clean and preen themselves, while medicinal baths were also prescribed to treat the symptoms and ease the pains of the sick.

Manuscripts list when and with whom baths might be taken, and give details of the most effective herbs and potions to be added to the water. The rich might bathe in marble or stone baths. Most commonly, portable wooden tubs were used.

Golf a la Bayeux
• Actual size: 105mm x 148mm
• No printed message
• Price (per card): £1.20

The popular game given an eleventh century twist.

Green Peace
• Actual size: 124mm x 124mm
• No printed message
• Price (per card): £1.20

The Green Man dreams of peace.

Moving House
• Actual size: 210mm x 90mm
• No printed message
• Price (per card): £1.20

A Benedictine monastery existed at Cranborne, in Dorset, from the tenth century. In 1102, Abbot Giraldus and members of that community moved to Tewkesbury to take up residence in a new abbey founded by Sir Robert Fitzhamon. From then on, Cranborne became a dependent cell of Tewkesbury Abbey until both communities surrendered to the Crown during the dissolution of the monasteries in 1540.