Visual Arts: Pictures
"The Agony in the Garden" (Mantegna, c1450) Gyges like soldier in: TK 92
"Alexander Receiving the Children of Darius" (Veronese, 1565-70) Stringham: QU 12, 57
"An Allegory with Venus and Cupid" (Bronzino, 1540-50) Moreland like Folly in: CCR 21
"Angry Seas off Land's End" one of Duport's seascapes: HSH 227
Antony and Cleopatra sequence (Tiepolo, 1740-45) Dr Brightman on model for Candaules' wife: TK 83
"Any Complaints?" (Tokenhouse) sale of to Belkin: TK 152
"The Boyhood of Cyrus" (Deacon):
in hall of W-Ws' house at Eaton Square: BM 19-20, 59, 91-3; AW 116; VB 196; HSH 5, 231-2
history of: BM 25; HSH 231-2
significance of to NJ:
first sight of a Deacon himself: BM 20
as introduction to Mr D: BM 91-3
and the "Dance" theme:
as memorial of Barbara Goring: BM 20, 28-9
symbolism of past like Widmerpool: BM 34
brought to mind by the local quarry: HSH 5, 138, 229, 231
encountered again in Barnabas Henderson's centenary exhibition: HSH 231-2
"The Boyhood of Raleigh" (Millais, 1870) – Members' pose: QU 174-5
"Bubbles" (Millais, 1880): BM 172
"By the Will of Diocletian" (Deacon):
and the decoration in the gin-palace: LM 168
and Barnabas Henderson:
in centenary exhibition arranged by: HSH 232
Canon Fenneau quoted by on the provenance: HSH 232
Candaules and Gyges (Tiepolo) ceiling in the Bragadin Palazzo:
described: TK 88-92
Dr Brightman's:
excitement at the prospect of seeing: TK 47-8, 56, 81-3; HSH 55
academic explanation of: TK 92-6; HSH 56
as a recurrent motif in TK:
Pamela's fascination with: TK 82-3, 88, 90, 95-6, 116-8, 157, 202, 273
archetypal example of voyeurism: TK 92-6, 117-8, 157, 159-60, 273-4
and the concept of the Temporary King: TK 93-6, 273-4
cave paintings of the Dordogne graffito of Widmerpool like: QU 155
"Le Chapeau de Paille" (Rubens, c1626) – Jean Duport reminds NJ of: BM 226; AW 64
drawing of Conchita by Augustus John Glober buys from Mopsy Pontner via the Lilienthals: TK 72-4, 76, 85-6
"Clergyman Eating an Apple" (Isbister):
Sir Gavin Walpole-Wilson examines at the retrospective exhibition: AW 116
Mark Members contends that central figure is St John Clarke: HSH 40
"The Countess of Ardglass with Faithful Girl" (Isbister) Bijou admires at exhibition: AW 120-1
"Cupid Chastised" (Bartolomeo Manfredi, 1605-10) statuette of at Stourwater: KO 112
"A Dance to the Music of Time" (Poussin, c1638):
introduces the whole cycle: QU 5-6
and Time in Ariosto: HSH 33, 161
concludes the whole cycle: HSH 251-2
"Dante and Beatrice" (Henry Holiday, 1883) Maclintick and Moreland's contempt for: CCR 204
"Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" (Picasso, 1907) Moreland mentions to tease Donners: KO 126
"The Doge in Bucentaur ..." (Francesco Guardi, 1766-70) – NJ's view of Venice: TK 8
"The Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba" (Claude Lorraine, 1648) Templer's House: QU 74
"The Embarkation of St Ursula" (Claude Lorraine, 1641) Templer's House: QU 74
"The Enchanted Castle" (Claude Lorraine, 1664) Templer's house: QU 74
"Entry of Christ into Brussels" (Ensor, 1898) and the arrival of NJ's party in Brussels: MP 174
"The Epic of American Civilisation" (Orozco, 1932-4) Glober flatters Tokenhouse by comparison to: TK 148
equestrian prints in Stringham's rooms: QU 12-3, 185; AW 214
"Femme d'Algers dans leur apartement" (Delacroix, 1836) Jean Duport reminds NJ of: AW 64
"The Finding of Moses" (Tiepolo, 1730) Dr Brightman on the model for Candaules' wife: TK 83
The First Jubilee at Thrubworth: BDFR 74
"For he had Spoken Lightly of a Woman's Name": BM 172
"Four priests rigging a miracle" (Tokenhouse"):
NJ mistakes for garage scene: TK 128-9
Tokenhouse explains: TK 128-30
"Gannets Nesting" one of Duport's seascapes: HSH 227
"Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II" (Pietro Annigoni, 1955) in dining-room at Stourwater school: HSH 191
"The Garden of Earthly Delights" (Hieronymus Bosch, c1504) Moreland teases Donners: KO 126
"A Hopeless Dawn" (Frank Bramley, 1888) – Moreland on: CCR 204
"The House of Cards" (Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, 1736) – card-players at Foppa's: AW 158
"Hunters in the Snow" (Pieter Breughel the elder, 1565) one of NJ's favourite pictures: VB 113
"Iphigenia" (Veronese) at Sleaford:
Chips Lovell disparages: TK 26; HSH 209
Gwinnett interested in: TK 26-7; HSH 92
Jonathan Cutts negotiates sale of: HSH 209
also mentioned: LM 15, 226
Isadore Manasch (Toulouse Lautrec) described by Rosie: BDFR 110
portrait of Judge Jeffreys Lord Huntercombe questions attribution to Lely: CCR 165
"King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid" (Burne-Jones, 1884) Trapnel and Pamela as: BDFR 205
"The Long Engagement" (Arthur Hughes, 1853-5) Moreland on: CCR 204
"La Madonna della Sedia" (Raphael, 1514) both NJ and Moreland dislike reproductions of: KO 85
"Maja Nude" (Goya, c1800) – Gypsy Jones's post-coital pose recalls: BM 269
"Mars and Venus" (Tiepolo, 1757) Dr Brightman on similarity to Candaules and Gyges: TK 83
"The Martyrdom of St Sebastian" (Perugino) Mr D is examining when seen by NJ in Louvre: BM 14, 16, 19
"Merville, 1st December, 1914" (Herbert Arnould Olivier, 1916) – in the War Office: MP 42, 51
"Mona Lisa" (Leonardo da Vinci, c1503):
Lady Anne Stepney claims likeness to: KO 126
Captain Jenkins' dislike of art tourists: TK 58
"Moses Saved from the Water" see "The Finding of Moses"
"Mrs Sarah Siddons" (Gainsborough,1785) Lady Huntercombe's dress recalls: BM 209, 236
murals for the Donners Brebner building see "Barnby, Ralph"
"The Needles: Schooner Aground" one of Duport's seascapes: HSH 227
drawing of Norma by Barnby see "Barnby, Ralph"
"The Old Humorists" (Isbister) Sir Gavin Walpole-Wilson examines at the retrospective exhibition: AW 116
"Olympia" (Manet, 1863) Gypsy Jones's post-coital pose recalls: BM 269
"The Omnipresent" (Arild Rosencrantz, 1907):
in Mrs Widmerpool's flat: BM 272; HSH 197
Widmerpool's robed appearance reminds NJ of: HSH 197
"On the Threshold of Eternity" (Van Gogh, 1890) Moreland on Donners' apparently terminal illness: TK 275
portraits by Isbister see "Isbister, Horace, RA"
portrait by Romney at Berkeley Square: QU 57; CCR 141
postcard from Jean sums up the love theme of AW and ends the book: AW 219-223
"Prince Rupert Conversing with a Herald" Lord Huntercombe's painting by Dobson not Van Dyck: BM 64; CCR 165
"Pupils of Socrates" Deacon: LM 168
"Rainy Day at Marrakesh":
example of pastel Moroccan scenes at Lady Molly's: SA 160
all gone after the Blitz: MP 84
"The Raft of the Medusa" (Géricault) fresco in Pimlico HQ seems Free French version of: MP 145
"The Rape of the Sabine Women" (Rubens, 1635-40) Moreland mentions to tease Donners: KO 126
"The Ridotto" (Pietro Longhi, 1740's) Mrs Erdleigh's hairstyle: KO 199-200
Russian ballet caricatures of by the Legat Brothers in Moreland's flat: CCR 11
"The Sacrifice of Iphigenia" (Tiepolo, 1757) Gwinnett:
excited by: TK 27, 48, 83
links to Pamela: TK 48
"Scene in the Olden Time at Bolton Abbey" (Landseer, 1830-5) at the Ufford: AW 10; MP 66
the Sistine Chapel: the Cumaean Sibyl (Michelangelo, c1500) General Conyers' energy recalls: KO 211
"And the Sea Gave up the Dead which were in it" (Leighton, 1892) – Mr D's party: BM 253
"The Seven Deadly Sins" – tapestries at Stourwater:
NJ attributes possibly to Gobelin: BM 199
"Luxuria" described: BM 199-200
scene of NJ's renewed acquaintance with Jean Duport: BM 200-202; KO 120; MP 241; HSH 191
subjects of the tableaux: KO 127-35, 227, 246; HSH 44, 54, 57, 59-62, 191
and the "Dance":
Matilda finds the photographs: HSH 44,54, 59-62, 191
remembered in the visit to Stourwater for the wedding: HSH 191-3
"Tropical Forest with Monkeys [Tropique]" (Henri Rousseau, 1910) Soper resembles: BDFR 11
"Two Monkeys" (Pieter Breughel the elder, 1562):
Pennistone loves: VB 113; BDFR 11
Sillery resembles: BDFR 11
"View of Toledo" (El Greco, 1597-9) Welsh garrison town like winter version of: VB 6
"Where Belgium Greeted Britain, 4th December, 1914" (Herbert Arnould Olivier) – in the War Office: MP 42, 51
"Winter" (Goya, 1786) NJ and Robert Tolland on the Spanish Civil War: CCR 64
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