Hi Mark, Just wanted to say how much I enjoyed reading and looking at your Blog. Also very interesting to see views on Egg Ravilious, Daumier et al – subjects close to my own heart.
Dear Andrew,
thank you for your positive comments, they help a great deal. Good to know that others find Ravilious interesting, I was fascinated by the connections between his most famous image (probably) and Tirzah Garwood’s work, about which little is known (sadly).
I’m going to Birmingham tomorrow, so might get a chance to look at the Egg painting again, the more you look at it, the more strange you realise it is.
Mark
Hi Mark, slightly jealous of you seeing the Egg tomorrow. I’m giving a talk about Travelling Companions/ Train Landscape next week. I’m looking for close ups of the Egg only found the head sketch so far.
Andrew
Yes The Travelling Companions repays further looking at, unlike perhaps some of Eggs more moralistic images which always struck me as an unhappy cross between Dickens and Hogarth. How did the lecture go, did you find further images?
Mark
Yes, I think Travelling Companions is one of the more subtle Victorian pictures. I decided to do “Anthropomorphism” this week so it’s Egg, Ravillious etc next week.
Best Wishes
Hi Mark, Just wanted to say how much I enjoyed reading and looking at your Blog. Also very interesting to see views on Egg Ravilious, Daumier et al – subjects close to my own heart.
Best Wishes
Andrew
Dear Andrew,
thank you for your positive comments, they help a great deal. Good to know that others find Ravilious interesting, I was fascinated by the connections between his most famous image (probably) and Tirzah Garwood’s work, about which little is known (sadly).
I’m going to Birmingham tomorrow, so might get a chance to look at the Egg painting again, the more you look at it, the more strange you realise it is.
Mark
Hi Mark, slightly jealous of you seeing the Egg tomorrow. I’m giving a talk about Travelling Companions/ Train Landscape next week. I’m looking for close ups of the Egg only found the head sketch so far.
Andrew
Yes The Travelling Companions repays further looking at, unlike perhaps some of Eggs more moralistic images which always struck me as an unhappy cross between Dickens and Hogarth. How did the lecture go, did you find further images?
Mark
Yes, I think Travelling Companions is one of the more subtle Victorian pictures. I decided to do “Anthropomorphism” this week so it’s Egg, Ravillious etc next week.
Best Wishes
Andrew