Historical Homage Gifts

Titian

"Don't be embarrassed. Most heroic archetypes your age have lost the ability to swashbuckle."

Frederic Chopin

R.I.P. ZZ Top - Dusty Hill 1949-2021

It started friendly enough...'I'm Henry VIII, my dear, but you may call me 'Hank'.'

"Nixon was the same way when he first got here."

Halo Frisbee.

"I'd like you to see an Anthropologist.''

Cover Design for the Savoy (No. 1) - Putto Figure in Lower Part of Image Altered for Publication

"Why can't you be more like little Hester Prynne? She's getting straight A's."

'Dropping the Pilot'-the Fall of Bismarck

A Male Angel throwing his Halo as a Frisbee for his Dog to catch.

Football fans discuss a deceased manager: A giant, a legend, much loved. Didn't we sack him?

'Mind if I head off a little early today?'

'It says here that later in life they were able to patch things up and became best of friends.'

Exotic Insects Arrive in England with Imported Fruit

"Oh stop it. You know perfectly well that before every battle the enemy shouts things at us that we may find offensive."

'I do wish you'd use the study when you work from home.'

"He had it commissioned just before he died."

Abraham Lincoln

Charles I

"There's got to be a better way to make butter."

'Forget about the Holy Grail for now - I want you to look for weapons of mass destruction.'

Duke of Wellington

"It's bad news Brother Thomas, he's decided to change the font"

"Hey!! Look!!!"

'Anyway it will do as a temporary structure.'

"What happened to women and children first?"

'From what you've told me, Lord Godiva, I think your wife is having a mid-life crisis.'

"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

'We'll have a job finding another gardener as dedicated as old Tom.'

Servant girl turning down a job because the family are not genteel enough

The Epsom Derby - Beer Stall