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Burundi++
London 2025
A brief add-on to my Burundi++ tour.
London: British Museum
Japanese Carp Banner for Boy's Day
A carp that leaps the highest waterfall
becomes a dragon...
King Ashurbanipal hunting
(I bought a resin copy of this scene.)
Ramses II
London: National Portrait Gallery
Mary, Queen of Scots (p. 1578)
Queen Elizabeth I (p. ~1575)
Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex
17th copy of ~1532 Holbein original
Sir Thomas More
17th c copy of 1527 Holbein
King Richard III (p. ~1540)
King Richard III
Late 16thc, based on ~1510 portrait
William Cecil (p. ~1570)
Queen Elizabeth I (p. ~1592)
Sir Walter Ralegh (p. 1585)
King Hentry VIII (p. ~1520)
King James VI & I (p 1621)
Wellington (p. 1829, unfinished)
Benjamin Franklin (p. 1785)
Sir Isaac Newton (p. 1702)
Churchill (p. 1916)
Churchill (p. 1916) detail
Charles Darwin
1883, based on 1881 portrait
Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Painted bronze, 2015
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