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Edwardian Sterling Salt 1912 by Horace Woodward & Co., London
Blog Post on the madness of collecting…
Paul Delaroche, The Execution of Lady Jane Grey, 1834
Within this painting, there is an exquisite and anxious tension between the tenative hand of Lady Jane as she reaches out blindly for the execution block and the luscious white satin of her dress glowing in the dungeon gloom which will soon be stained with her blood.
I would visit this painting often when I lived in London.
New Blog Post: http://www.thegreatwithin.org/2009/12/notes-on-painting-execution-of-lady.html
In 1987, I lived in London for about 3 months after having attended a spring semester abroad at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England. For the summer I was lucky to secure an internship at the Dulwich Picture Gallery, a small and splendid museum with an exceptional collection of seventeenth and eighteenth century English and European painting. For my internship, I often travelled around London doing research for an upcoming exhibition on Gainsborough. I had to go to the library at the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square several times where I would always first stop to contemplate French painter Paul Delaroche’s The Execution of Lady Jane Grey. Even when I wasn’t at the National Galley as long as I was somewhat close to it, I would quickly go in to see the Delaroche painting.
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Flash Gordon, Buster Crabbe holding a large sword…so yummy.
Remembrance of things handsome…
Postcard early 20th century
Remembrance of things handsome…
Postcard early 20th century…
I love the fake backdrop, the sitter’s swanky boots and his almost pompador hairstyle…
As Roland Barthes would say, “That-has-been!” What a story that we can never know.
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The Naked Civil Servant – Jack Gold (1975)
“I found that I had become so spinsterish that I was made neurotic not only by my life of domesticity but by the slightest derangement of my room. I would burst into a fit of weeping if the kettle was not facing due east”- Quentin Crisp
I hear you on that one Quentin…
New Blog Post: Silver Desire: The Strawberry Fork 1908
http://www.thegreatwithin.org/2010/02/silver-desire-strawberry-fork.html
Thought of the day- When I have a drink in a paper cup with a plastic lid and it has those “buttons” on the lid like Cola, Diet, Tea, Other, I always push the Other button and it always makes me smile…
