The Tumbrel Diaries

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Portraites of the inditchenous beestes of New Olland

This remarkable undated drawing by Edward Lear in the Morgan Library and Museum in New York, headed “Portraites of the inditchenous beeste...

William Porter Finlay

The life of William Porter Finlay sheds a powerful ray of light on the Victorian way of ruin. That we know as much as we do about...

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Angus Trumble: New Haven, Connecticut, United States; Angus Trumble will begin work as Director of the National Portrait Gallery of Australia on February 10, 2014. He has been Senior Curator of Paintings and Sculpture at the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut, since May 2003. Angus is the author of a number of books, including A Brief History of the Smile and The Finger: A Handbook, which has lately been published in New York by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, in London by Yale University Press, and by Melbourne University Publishing. He is an occasional contributor to the Burlington Magazine, Apollo, and a more regular one to The Times Literary Supplement, the Australian Book Review, and Esopus Magazine.

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