The Widow's Web.

Eckhart Tolle suggested that “death is a stripping away of all that is not you.”  And just who puts on what we strip off?  We find the answer in The Ingoldsby Legends, 1893.

Portrait of Louise-Madeleine Bertin, Countess of Montchal, Nicolas de Largillière

Countess Praskovia Vorontsova, Dmitry Levitzky

Atalanta, Christopher Williams 

Lady in a White Dress, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller

Lady Hockley, Benjamin Ferrers 

Portrait of the Countess of Chincon, Francisco Goya

 Portrait of a Lady, Baron Charles Steuben 

Lady Katherine Isabella Manners, Countess Jermyn, Sir Francis Grant

The Scent of a Rose, Henri Privat-Livemont

Mujer de Perfil con Quimono, Eduardo Chicharro y Agüera 

Portrait of a Girl Holding a Flower Pot, Marie-Victoire Lemoine 

 Portrait of Princess Amelia, Jean-Baptiste Van Loo 

Laziness, Felix Vallotton 

Music, Marie-Victoire Lemoine

Miss Irene Hirst, later the Hon. Mrs Rose, Philip Alexius de László

Lady Ligonier, Thomas Gainsborough