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Long lost pictures depicting real-life scenes from Thomas Hardy's Wessex are being displayed for the first time in almost 100 years after they were found in a trunk.

37 images of locations immortalised in the Victorian writer's novels were created by artist John Everett, whose family were friends with Hardy.

The images were unearthed by art historian Gwen Yarker while she was putting together an exhibition on Everett at the National Maritime Museum in London.

Puddletown Heath (pictured) which was mentioned in Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd, is being sold for £300

This picture of Woodbury Fair, which featured in Far From The Madding Crowd, is one of the 37 aquatints which is on sale at the exhibition at Duke's Auctioneers of Dorchester

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Then and now: 'Casterbridge' high street - The county town of Dorchester

She visited the Everett's grandchildren and found the set of aquatints in a chest underneath other pictures. The family had no idea how rare and important they were.

The collection has now gone on display in a selling exhibition at Duke's Auctioneers of Dorchester, with prices ranging from £250 to £350. The collection will be on display until September 21.

The pictures are said to be inspired by Hardy's travels in 1924, when the English painter travelled around 'Hardy Country' and produced small oil sketches on the spot.

He even managed to paint an elderly Hardy relaxing in the garden of his home at Max Gate near Dorchester, Dorset.

Everett turned the oil sketches into aquatints - a print made by etching a copper plate with nitric acid and using resin and varnish to produce areas of tonal shading. 

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Old to new: Corvesgate Castle'- Corfe Castle in Dorset, depicted by Hardy, to Corfe Castle today

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Then and now: Charborough Tower in Dorset was an inspiration for Hardy's book 'Two on a Tower'

This dark picture is a storm looming over Hardy's 'Egdon Heath' that featured in the Return of the Native

The left picture shows Gold Hill in Shaftesbury, featured in Jude the Obscure, Hardy's last novel. While the picture on the right is 'Corvesgate Castle', Corfe Castle in Dorset

Pictured here is Everett's take on Hardy's Monument in Dorset - actually a monument to Nelson's Captain Hardy, and not the famous author

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Hardy had sketched the 'Cerne Abbas giant' (left). While today Cerne Abbas is a residential area

Some of the famous landscapes featured in Hardy's works include Puddletown Heath, which he called Weatherbury and appeared in his 1874 novel Far From the Madding Crowd.

Stinsford Church - Melstock Church - that features prominently in Under the Greenwood Tree (1872) is also documented, as is Egdon Heath which is in the 1878 novel The Return of the Native.

There is also an aquatint showing Woolbridge and Manor House which was used by Hardy for the honeymoon setting of Angel and Tess in Tess of the D'Urbervilles.

Everett even lived in Woolbridge Manor himself from 1903 to 1907.

After his book was shelved, Everett had held an exhibition of his Hardy Country aquatints at the Camera Club in London in 1925, the only time they have been seen together publicly since.

Mrs Yarker said: 'Thomas Hardy was close friends with the Everett family and Everett cycled round Dorset with Hardy who was very interested to see what artists made of his Wessex.

Picture on the left is being sold for £300 and is of the Upwey Wishing Well. Picture on the right is Wool Manor, a key location in Tess of the D'urbervilles and the home of John Everett

This lighter sketch is of the London & South West railway station in Dorchester and is being sold for £300

Poole Quay 'The New Queen in Havenpool' in Hardy, will be sold for £300. Gwen Yarker discovered the photos when she visited a member of the Everett family

'These artists would read Hardy's novels at night and then go out in the day to paint his landscapes.

'These pictures are an incredible fusion of these two people, a relationship that hasn't really been told before.

'When I visited a member of the Everett family, they told me they had some old stuff in a chest in the bathroom.

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Max Gate is the former home of author Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) in Dorchester, Dorset. Left depicted by Hardy and right, Max Gate today

The Victorian Realist: Thomas Hardy was one of English Literature's most important novelists and poets

Thomas Hardy was an English novelist and poet who set his work, including The Return of the Native and Far from the Madding Crowd, in the semi-fictionalised county of Wessex.

Born in Dorset in 1840, he is best known for novels such as Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure. He was also an accomplished poet. Hardy died in 1928. His ashes are in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey and his heart is buried in Stinsford with his first wife.

Even though he wrote poetry throughout his life and regarded himself primarily as a poet, his first collection was not published until 1898. He initially gained fame for his novels; Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891), and Jude the Obscure (1895).

Despite the majority of Hardy’s work being set in Wessex, it eventually came to include the counties of Dorset, Wiltshire, Somerset, Devon, Hampshire and much of Berkshire.

This picture of Sinsford Church - where Hardy played in the church band, and where his heart is now buried, is being sold for £300

'I looked through and then at the bottom I came across this massive stash of pictures.

'I realised how significant they were straight away, it was thrilling.

'I don't think anyone had looked at them for years.

'Everett left his wife in 1917 so the family didn't really have any connection with him. These are the only ones available for people to have, they are incredibly rare.

This picture shows Wimborne Bridge and is one of the 37 pictures found tossed in chest by historian Gwen Yarker

Wool Manor - infamous location from Tess of the D'urbervilles and the home of John Everett

Thomas Hardy's birthplace, Higher Brockhampton. This will be the first time the pictures have been displayed in almost 100 years

'It isn't quite a full set, we think he did 40 and we only have 37, but this is the first time they have been on display together since 1925.

'We think he possibly did up to ten prints of each and these are what was left in his studio after the exhibition.

'They probably were the ones on show in 1925 because they have prices on the back.

'But it's very unlikely there are many at all, this is the chance to get these.

The early bronze age site of Maumbury Rings, in Dorchester (Casterbridge), is another of the 37 pictures to go on sale

The Pure Drop Inn in Marnhull, Hardys 'Marlott' where the unfortunate Tess came from in Tess of the d'Urbervilles

'Budmouth bridge' - Modern day Weymouth harbour in Dorset as depicted by Thomas Hardy

'They are a real one-off.'

Everett came from a high profile Dorchester family and enrolled at the Slade School of Art in London after his reverend father died.

He went on to become a prolific landscape and maritime artist, and was also an official war artist during the First World War.

Canford Manor - Chene manor in Hardy's novels - which was actually the home of Everett's Aunt Lady Wimborne

'Budmouth', the view down to Weymouth and Portland from the Ridgeway, as depicted by Everett

Everett's interpretation of Woodsford castle. In 1924 the English painter travelled around 'Hardy Country' and produced small oil sketches for a book that was never published

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