[Leica] IMG: Jack the Ripper's Pupil

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

You can still see these scenes in rural India!

Cheers
Jayanand

On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 6:00 AM 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/The+Donkey+Boy.jpg.html
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> Can be seen larger. iPhone SE
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