TW427049 Market Day, 1900 (oil on canvas) by Leighton, Edmund Blair (1853-1922); 32x47 cm; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK; (add.info.: A trip to market in days gone by might mean a long journey by rough roads or by river. However, Leighton has taken a romantic approach, dressing the women in elegant clothing. Leighton\'s picture is part of a 19th-century fashion for nostalgic, sentimental scenes of what life might have been like 100 years previously. The old village houses on the bank and the towers of a large church behind convey an impression of idyllic past times. Edmund Leighton painted many pictures of this kind;); 穢 Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums; English, out of copyright.