[Leica] IMG: Jack the Ripper's Pupil

[Douglas Barry]

Thanks for the comments, Peter, Jayanand and Ric.
We're hanging the pair of them up.

Douglas


On 23/06/2023 10:19, Peter Dzwig wrote:
> I'd hang on to that one!
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> I very much like the style, composition and the draughtsmanship. I 
> really like the sense of motion (however slow!) conveyed by the line 
> of his arm and the donkey's heads. He's pushing them on, but they are 
> moving. There are touches that remind me of late 19th/early 20th 
> century draughtsmen going back to people like Beardsley.
>
> A real find!
>
> Peter
>
> On 23/06/2023 01:30, Douglas Barry 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
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>> Can be seen larger. iPhone SE
>>
>> Douglas
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