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.
Reading the Letter. Thomas Benjamin Kennington (English, 1856-1916). Oil on canvas.
Kennington was a painter of everyday life, with emphasis on pathos and emotion, and of portraits. His subjects ranged from middle-class men engaging in leisure hobbies to the injustices of urban poverty. Studied at Liverpool School of Art, at the R.C.A. and at the Académie Julian in Paris.
