We made our appointment at the
Middle East Study Room, and they had the painting ready for us. We wanted to take a photo when we went into
the room. There were several people at
different tables with documents and books.
However there were two people sitting at tables each with a box of stone
fragments. These fragments had
hieroglyphs on them. They were examining
the hieroglyphs on these fragments. It was
like something you see on a documentary about ancient Egypt. Back to our painting, #408 for us. It is attributed to a Mughal painter named
Miskin, it was painted around 1600. It
may show a popular fable of the Mughal culture.
We gave in to our compulsion and
went out to buy the book on the Blue Plaques that I mentioned earlier. Sue made the point that all the plaques are
in London. We won’t have to spend an arm
and a leg to find these plaques, as we do for some (many) of our
paintings. We actually started to look
for the book the day before, but Waterstones, the big bookstore only had one at
all their stores. We found the one copy that
was at Foyles, another big book seller.
So then we started out by tracking down some of the plaques near our
apartment. I have not heard of any of
the people we saw today, but that isn’t too unusual since this Blue Plaque
program is about famous British people. But
there are many famous people with Blue Plaques.
So we have a new quest when we want to go out on a nice day to
explore. While at the book store we
bought another book about the Cemeteries of London. Visiting cemeteries to see the graves of
famous people, and the amazing tomb architecture is another habit we have. So now we have a guide to some of the lesser
known places. Of course there is a web
page that lists the grave locations of famous people. In case you are interested this is the site: http://www.findagrave.com/
Tomorrow we are going back to the
Victoria & Albert Museum where we have an appointment to see at least four
and maybe six paintings. This could be a
bonanza!
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