All Saints is a feast, not a saint

The name in this title identifies a building, and the building is named after a day. All Saints is the collective feast — a date in the calendar that honours every saint at once, including the ones nobody can name. It is the one entry in the whole naming system with no attribute at all, because it has no individual to attach one to. 4 titles in this collection carry the phrase: 3 name the feast day itself, and this one names a church in a London suburb.

What the record holds

The catalogue dates the work to 1871 and gives Private Collection as its location. No dimensions are recorded — this entry is one of 266 in the collection with that field empty. It is filed under Landscapes with City as a subheading; there is no religious category on the entry at all. The style is Impressionism and the nationality French; the measured colour family is yellow.

A church as street furniture

The category field is the interesting part. A picture whose title names a church is filed here as a city landscape, with no religious heading, which is a precise piece of description: the building is in the picture as architecture, the way a bridge or a station would be. Upper Norwood is a district of south London, and the title reads as an address rather than as a dedication.