TOP ROW

 

01 AND 03 R.Taylor, cartoons for The New Yorker 1947.
 
02. Anthony Gilbert in LILLIPUT 1953

 

BOTTOM ROW - HONORE DAUMIER

The Abduction of Helen of Troy

Dido and Aeneas

Ariadne Abandoned

Aeneas in Hell

more DAUMIER

The pomposities and aspirations of Classicism are an easy target but the viewing public shares with the artist a set of referents - a set of Narratives - in place in my case through the arid Grammar School educational system - all ready for the visual theme and variations.