Happy Birthday Sir Joshua Reynolds!
July 16, 1723 (Plympton, England)“The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.”
Top: Selina, Lady Skipwith, 1787. The Frick Collection (New York)
Bottom: Colonel George K. H. Coussmaker, 1782. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
The Wunderkammer of the Mild Colonial Boy, Esq., a Reactionary Tory Gentleman, who armed only with a Steampowered Babbage Engine and Pure Intentions, wanders the Time Streams and Aetheric Plane gathering an Eccentric Hodgepodge of Curiousities, Frivolities, Whimsicalities and Nonsense.
Q. Why is your Tumblelog called "My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning"?
A. Because "My Grandmother's Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning" wouldn't fit in the available space.
