...SUSPENSE...
The Moment before
TOP
LEFT - the Magazine Publishers of America stiffening the Home
Front - c.1943 21 x 22 cms
TOP
RIGHT - Jan Sadeler's engraving after after Dirk Barendsz, Mankind
awaiting the Last Judgment an elegant banquet proceeds while outside a
battle and signs of imminent collapse of civilisation pre-figure the Deluge
and the Last Judgment.
BOTTOM
LEFT Rembrandt's etching The Fall of Man ,11 x 16cms. Eve is
about to give the Apple to Adam who warns of Divine Retribution.
BOTTOM RIGHT Tenniel's drawing for PUNCH December 23rd
1871 p.263, and a candidate for Cliche of the Hour, to depict Britannia
fretfully waiting the medical bulletins on the Prince of wales. Facing
this stilted and banal image is the poem, Queen, People and Princess,
once more peddling the myth of the Moment of National Unity.Still
- SUSPENSE it is called.
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