Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tales of terror, thirty-six pages long if you paid sixpence, seventy if a shilling, were on everything from a "Shocking Instance of Arabian Jealousy" to "The Cross of Christ," all rife with much the same sort of atmosphere, thrills and shocks. Most of them had castles with ghostly portrait galleries, musty, deserted wings where mysterious manuscripts telling of some "awful" murder or horrible deed were discovered. The heroine is beautiful, but elusive. "Her mind is . . . like a jewel contained in a most beautiful casket." The hero is a brunette; and like the protagonists in Horatio Alger stories, he begins...
...Letter," shown in the Paris Salon of 1882, they held a dinner, presented him with a gold medal and turned over their gallery to a memorial exhibition of his work. Last week they draped the door in black and tacked gold palm leaves to the frame of his self-portrait. Gari Melchers had died suddenly at his Virginia country place, of heart failure...
...very small Super Limited Edition. The portrait is signed by Douglas. First collected edition of this material. Illustrated. Only a few copies printed for named subscribers...
...Glasgow Art Gallery rejected a gift portrait of King George V, wearing a bowler hat and talking with an Aintree race course trainer, because it was not sufficiently "majestic looking...
...From a portrait by Eric Kennington. Reproduced from the limited edition of Revolt in the Desert published in London by Jonathan Cape, Ltd. Courtesy of Duttons...