Ennis wrote:Raphael:
His face in words -- lovely!!
And such a sweet face too.
Ennis wrote:Raphael:
His face in words -- lovely!!
Ennis wrote:I'm getting quite a thrill scrolling very quickly down those posted pictures and then BAM, there's that gorgeous, life-sized (or so it seems ) mask. Be still my beating heart. Makes me want to go right home (I'm at school - kids're at lunch) and just stand in front of my copy of the mask (hanging, of course, on my shrine wall) and stare at him for minutes upon minutes upon minutes . . .
jesleeall wrote:Question: I read somewhere - I think it was in Andrew Motions biography - that Severn made two deathbed portraits of John. One, of course, would be the one we're all so familiar with, but I've never seen the other one. Do any of you know anything about it?
jesleeall wrote:Maybe the Maria Crowther picture is the one Motion meant. Is that the one that's shown on this forum, a profile of him reading?
Raphael wrote:jesleeall wrote:Maybe the Maria Crowther picture is the one Motion meant. Is that the one that's shown on this forum, a profile of him reading?
The Maria crowther one shows him sitting in his greatcoat with boots on "reading"- but he looks as though he isn't really reading- like he is staring at the book but his mind is elsewhere, probaby on his beloved Miss Brawne he has left in Hampstead. It's a very sad, poignant drawing.
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