Blue Monkey Gallery

Christopher Sly by Giovacchino Forzano

Christopher Sly by Giovacchino Forzano (19 November 1884 28 October 1970) translated by H. B. Cotterill and starring Matheson Lang (May 15, 1879 April 11, 1948). First produced at the New Theatre in London (now known as The Noel Coward Theatre) on 31st August 1921. Sly, in the blue cloak, has been taken from Shakespeares The Taming of the Shrew. He still drinks too much, but becomes a tragic figure, when, given a noblemans clothes and admitted to court, he kills himself because he cannot stand the mockery. The artist is Charles Buchel ). Date: 1921

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View of Okazaki (Okazaki no zu) (colour woodblock print)

5043865 View of Okazaki (Okazaki no zu) (colour woodblock print) by Kunisada, Utagawa (1786-1864); Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, UK; (add.info.: No. 39 in the series, with background based on Hiroshige?s design for the First Tokaido. On beige clouds a woman in blue kimono and headcloth carries a monkey on her back and holds green cane in her right hand, a ring on rod in her left, daimyo procession crosses bridge towards castle, distant mountains. Publisher: Sanoya Kihei (Kikakud?). Signed: ?ju Kunisada ga. Censor's seal: Kiwame. Publisher's seal: Sano-hei.
Fifty-three Stations of the T?kaid? Road (T?kaid? goj?san tsugi no uchi)); Japanese, out of copyright

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Queen Henrietta Maria with Sir Jeffrey Hudson, 1633 (oil on canvas)

XOS746463 Queen Henrietta Maria with Sir Jeffrey Hudson, 1633 (oil on canvas) by Dyck, Anthony van (1599-1641); 219.1x134.8 cm; National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA; (add.info.: Queen Henrietta Maria (1609-69) consort of England and wife of King Charles I, with Sir Jeffery Hudson (1619 a?? c.1682) court dwarf.); Flemish, out of copyright

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