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Jane Austen's Places Series
Part of my Jane Austen’s Places series, this painting captures 4 Sydney Place, one of the locations where Jane lived in Bath between 1801 and 1804. This painting also features in my Jane Austen's Places Montage print - also listed in my shop Open edition Giclee print, individually titled and signed by myself. The original painting is created with pen and ink with watercolour. The print is UNMOUNTED and UNFRAMED. Paper Size 32cm x 22cm
Part of my Jane Austen’s Places series, this painting captures Chawton Cottage, Hampshire, where Jane lived for the last eight years of her life. Here she wrote and revised all six of her novels, and part wrote Sanditon before moving to Winchester, where she sadly died. This painting also features in my Jane Austen's Places Montage print - also listed in my shop. Giclee print, hand titled and signed. The print is UNMOUNTED and UNFRAMED. Paper Size 32cm x 22cm
Part of my Jane Austen’s Places series, this painting captures 8 College Street in Winchester, the final home where Jane spent the last few weeks of her life while seeking medical treatment. Sadly, she passed away here on 18 July 1817, at the age of 41. Hand titled and signed Giclee print, UNMOUNTED and UNFRAMED. Paper Size 32cm x 22cm
Allowing for some artistic license, this is the first and only known representation, to date, of Steventon Rectory in Jane Austen's time, approved by the 2011 Archaeological Rectory Project Director and Lead Archaeologist Deborah Charlton. Open edition Giclee print, individually titled and signed. The original painting is pen and ink with watercolour. The print is UNMOUNTED and UNFRAMED. Paper size 32cm x 22cm
2025 marks the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth. This print is part of my Jane Austen’s Places series, and is a larger montage featuring houses in the series, plus Winchester Cathedral where she was laid to rest. Steventon Rectory, Hampshire, birthplace 1775 4 Sydney Place, Bath, 1801 to 1804 Chawton Cottage, Hampshire 1809 to 1817 8 College Street, Winchester 1817 Winchester Cathedral, final resting place1817 The print is UNMOUNTED and UNFRAMED. Paper Size 44cm x 34cm
These walking and cycling trails takes in locations significant to Jane's life, between Overton and Steventon - birthplace and home of Jane for 25 years. An open edition Giclee print, each is individually titled and signed by myself. Available in 2 sizes. Medium: 22 x 32cm - will fit frame 30 x 40cm or Large: 34 x 44cm - will fit frame 40 x 50cm
This walking trail takes in the locations in Overton - well known to Jane and next to the small village of Steventon, birthplace and home of Jane for 25 years. An open edition Giclee print, each is individually titled and signed by myself. Available in 2 sizes. Medium: 22 x 32cm - will fit frame 30 x 40cm or Large: 34 x 44cm - will fit frame 40 x 50cm
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July 2025………Jane Austen's Places Series and Steventon Rectory
Nothing is left of Hampshire’s famous author, Jane Austen's birthplace - Steventon Rectory. It is now just a field a short walk from the church. But, the findings from the 2011 Archaeological Rectory Project, detailed in the book Archaeology Greets Jane Austen by Deborah Charlton (2017) *,started a fascinating artistic endeavour to paint what the Rectory would have looked like.  Allowing for some artistic license, this is the first and only known representation, to date, of the Rectory in Jane Austen's time, approved by the Rectory Project Director and Lead Archaeologist Deborah Charlton.
“The 2011 archaeological Rectory Project brought together a multi-skilled community team comprising voluntary individuals, academic and professional organisations from a wide variety of areas, with the objective of intrusively exploring the below ground surface remains and to gain an insight, from the material culture, into the Austen home and their lifestyle. In conjunction with the physical archaeological investigation extensive research was undertaken of a wide variety of archives and published, unpublished works." Archaeology Greets Jane Austen (Published 2017)
Taking inspiration from the archaeological evidence presented in the book, and in-depth conversations with Project Director and Lead Archaeologist Deborah Charlton about Jane Austen's letters, and unpublished research from the Stevenson Rectory Project Archive, I began creating a historically informed visual reconstruction of the Rectory.
The resulting painting depicts the Rectory, incorporating factual elements from the Rectory project, including the building’s proportions derived from the foundation layout, its appearance based on excavated structural materials found, and the positioning of key landscape features such as the sweep and horse chestnut trees.
In the words of Deborah Charlton (Rectory Project Director and Lead Archaeologist): it was “A very emotional moment—looking at Steventon Rectory, visible again after 203 years.”
I revealed the painting at the Steventon Country Fair at the beginning of July, and presented a copy to none other than Lucy Worsely herself!
Jo with Archaeologist Deborah Charlton
* Archaeology Greets Jane Austen (Published 2017) & Archaeology Enlightens Steventon Rectory (Publication Pending). Author: Deborah Charlton, MPhil, PGCert (Adv Res Skills), BA (Hons) -
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