Like other things Victorian, he was largely forgotten in the 20th century until Allen Funt, of Candid Camera fame, began collecting his works.
Anyway, when I found the painting that's now above us the other day, I loved it the moment I saw it. But is it too much on the masthead, with the quote? Am I reading too much into this?
Everyone gets a vote, and then I'll make a decision.
hmmm.
3 comments:
I like it, Colonel, and I think the quote enlivens it. (Jeeze, did that come out of me?)
Well, technically, she seems to be reading a scroll. Which doesn't really have a binding. Well, okay, I guess a scroll is a type of binding, but still, it's not really what we think of when we think of the smell of bindings in the morning, now is it?
Dang purty picture though.
well, ok. Who am I to argue with people I agree with?
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