Dockside Gallery

[AvastMH]

Looking forward to that then, Chris

[Hanibal94]

As promised, a follow-up to last week's:



Logkeeper doing penance in the wilderness for his terrible handwriting.

[AvastMH]

That's a fine sight - if only we could turn the clock back.

I like that the Mods now have an assistant lion.

[Randi]

In art, Jerome is often represented as one of the four Latin doctors of the Church along with Augustine of Hippo, Ambrose, and Pope Gregory I. As a prominent member of the Roman clergy, he has often been portrayed anachronistically in the garb of a cardinal. Even when he is depicted as a half-clad anchorite, with cross, skull and Bible for the only furniture of his cell, the red hat or some other indication of his rank as cardinal is as a rule introduced somewhere in the picture. During Jerome's life, cardinals did not exist. However, by the Renaissance and Baroque periods, it was common practice for a secretary to the pope to be a cardinal (as Jerome had effectively been to Damasus), and so this was reflected in artistic interpretations.

Jerome is also often depicted with a lion, in reference to the popular hagiographical belief that Jerome had tamed a lion in the wilderness by healing its paw. The source for the story may actually have been the second century Roman tale of Androcles, or confusion with the exploits of Saint Gerasimus (Jerome in later Latin is "Geronimus").

[jil]

If the penance doesn't work perhaps the lion would have better writing?

[Randi]

[Michael]

[AvastMH]

[Randi]

Perhaps the lion would also be more likely to return from leave clean and sober

[Michael]

[AvastMH]

[Morgan]

That is some expression o the lion's face! He is looking out at us as if to say something external to the picture. "Just hangin' out here waiting for my next modeling gig."

[Randi]

[AvastMH]

[Hanibal94]

OW'er shows some of his edited histories and Journey Plotter maps to his daughter.

[Randi]

The North-West Passage is an 1874 painting by John Everett Millais. It depicts an elderly sailor sitting at a desk, with his daughter seated in a stool beside him. He stares out at the viewer, while she reads from a log-book. On the desk is a large chart depicting complex passageways between incompletely charted islands.

Perfect for OW!

[AvastMH]

Oh what a magnificent painting! It's perfect, just as you say Randi. I need to adopt this picture. The tiny painting of the ship caught in ice is just right for OWW.

Right in the middle of that map (so excited to recognize this) is Cape Bathurst, over-wintering place for the late 1890s whalers, and that is on the west side of...Franklin Bay. I believe the bay was named for Sir John Franklin after his expeditions over 1825, 1826 and 1827. Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of The Polar Sea in the Years 1825, 1826, and 1827 by John Franklin (Page 212, Cape Bathurst and eastwards).

And why the painting of Nelson? There's more of a connection than simply the Sea... "Initially serving as a first class volunteer, Franklin soon saw action in the Battle of Copenhagen in which the Polyphemus participated as part of Horatio Nelson's squadron"







Chris - thank you so much for this wonderful Dockside Gallery painting

[jil]

Cool painting!

[Michael]

Wow, Joan!!! You are the Queen of the Whaling ships! I wouldn’t have recognized Cape Bathurst.

[Hanibal94]

OW'ers preparing for yet another voyage to the frozen north.