Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2023/06/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Very nice Ric > On Jun 22, 2023, at 8:30 PM, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote: > > According to US writer Patricia Cornwell about 20 years ago, she > postulated the idea that the infamous Whitechapel serial killer was the > well known painter Walter Sickert. Naturally, it's a theory which is > totally unprovable right now, and probably for ever. > > However, I was doing some work on our art - paintings, prints and old > photographs we have that we never got around to hanging. We have been > buying what we think is painterly art for over forty years in various > auctions, including furniture ones, which are cheap, sometimes quite > interesting and do turn up the odd surprising item. However, due to our > downsizing, we have a fair bit stored in a corner of a room, and something > has to be done with it before I shuffle off and join the Choir Invisible. > > In going through it, I came across a couple of nice woodcuts from an > artist called Mabel Allington Royds - see wikipedia - who it transpires > was taught by Ms Cornwell's chief Ripper suspect. It's not worth a lot, > but in turn is worth a lot more than we actually paid for it. This lady > worked in India and this picture is called "The Donkey Boy" and is > probably a scene from Varanasi (then Benares) in the state of Uttar > Pradesh. Nice to know that another copy of it is in the Victoria and > Albert Museum in London. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/The+Donkey+Boy.jpg.html > > Can be seen larger. iPhone SE > > Douglas > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information