Corked Neutral the latter commissioning her to

the latter commissioning her to paint his wife and daughters

Sheffer’s work is presumably an illustration intended for publication in a mainstream magazine

I certainly shouldn’t feel this nostalgia for a time and place I’ve no experience of

The creative elite had been holidaying or living there since the mid-nineteenth century and by the beginning of the next century it had become a relative safe-haven for the gay and lesbian community

Corked Neutral the latter commissioning her toThis is a jolly little chap that stirs a lot of memories for me. Punch magazine was still a part of life when I was growing up. The annual would get passed around elderly relatives at Christmas and old book shelves in back bedrooms would be mouldering with bound volumes of unread copies. The artists who filled those pages were household names in their day and none more so than Phil May. Described as the Grandfather of British illustration (thank you