Peter Parkerさんのイラストまとめ

I shall be giving a paper on the Edwardian cult of the schoolboy at the Henry Scott Tuke online conference today. Discussing school stories, A.E. Housman, Saki, J.M. Barrie and Forrest Reid, amongst others.
Details here:
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“The first exhibition I saw, in 1819, is fixed in my memory by the first Turner ‘The orange merchant on the bar’ - and being by nature a lover of smudginess, I have revelled in him fro that day to this.”
Samuel Palmer, 9 December 1872
#samuelpalmer #jmwturner #painters

“The orchids were the thing. Mrs Abernathy, Ronald Firbank (a dingy lilac blossom of rarity untold), Prince Palariet, a heavy-spotted flower, and rosy Olive Moonlight, were those that claimed the greatest respect from a few discerning connoisseurs.”
Ronald Firbank, d. 21 May 1926

“I loathe my own face, and I’ve done self-portraits because I’ve had nobody else to do.”
Francis #Bacon, died 28 April 1992

“The tulips are coming out, and look like Arabian Night brides, so suavely contoured and sleek in such passionate colours. Cherry colour, plum with an almond-green slash, scarlet tinged with lime green.”
Sylvia #Townsend #Warner, 1 May 1934