FLASH & FOOTLE

“The Island of Men with Long Beards” - an Iranian manuscript illustration of a story from The Thousand Nights and a Night, derived from the Persian هزار افسان‎‎ , itself incorporating Indian elements. The inscription at the top is in Farsi, and would reveal all - unlike the sweet gentlemen in the picture - if we knew someone who could translate it.

If they are ‘dervishes’ and they dance, then the sight of swinging beards and swinging sex-organs would be a delight to behold!

Walking Woman with Dog, 1926, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

The Canoe, 1877, Gustave Caillebotte

Medium: oil,canvas

[Thomas Eakins and John Laurie Wallace on a Beach], Thomas Eakins, ca. 1883, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Photography

David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1943 Size: 25.5 x 20.4 cm (10 1/16 x 8 1/16 in.), irregular Medium: Platinum print

Mortuary Horse, c. 525, Cleveland Museum of Art: Chinese Art

Size: Overall: 22.3 x 22.3 cm (8 ¾ x 8 ¾ in.) Medium: dark buff earthenware with polychrome

Cookie Miller, Hill and Adamson, 1843–47, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Photography

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937 Medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

The figure Architectural Aspiration being  sculpted by Bainbridge Copnall which is above the main  entrance, 1934.

Royal Institute of British Architects, 66 Portland Place,  London

Aaron Smith “Juggins”, 2019, oil on canvas, 40"x 30"

Head of Peasant, 1934, Kazimir Malevich