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The first line of the poem is often quoted, sometimes to ascribe racism to Kipling in regard to his views on Asians. [1] Those who quote it thus often miss the third and fourth lines, which contradict the opening line.
Geoffrey Webb was born into an artistic family of some note. His grandfather, Edward Webb, was a painter and printmaker; his uncles included Sir Aston Webb, the eminent architect; and his father, Edward Alfred Webb, was a watercolourist and antiquary who wrote a history of the Priory Church of St Bartholomew the Great in two volumes.
While most of the work of Wailes' workshop is to be found in the North of England, other commissions came from further afield. The most significant window glazed by the firm, and one of the prize commissions of the industry, was the glazing of the west window of Gloucester Cathedral, an enormous window of c.1430 in the Perpendicular Gothic style, of nine lights and four tiers.
The history of Western painting represents a continuous, though disrupted, tradition from antiquity until the present time. [1] Until the mid-19th century it was primarily concerned with representational and traditional modes of production, after which time more modern, abstract and conceptual forms gained favor.
East of West is a monthly comic book series published by Image Comics which debuted in March 2013 and was concluded in December 2019. Created by writer Jonathan Hickman and artist Nick Dragotta, the book is a science fiction Western set in a dystopian version of the United States whose fate rests with the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
A meeting of Japan, China, and the West (Shiba Kōkan, late 18th century). In sociology, the East–West dichotomy is the perceived difference between the Eastern and the Western worlds.
Douglas Strachan (26 May 1875, Aberdeen, Scotland – 20 November 1950) is considered the most significant Scottish designer of stained glass windows in the 20th century. He is best known for his windows at the Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands, at Edinburgh's Scottish National War Memorial and in cathedrals and churches throughout the United Kingdom.
Eva Sydney Hone, known as Evie, was born at Roebuck Grove, Donnybrook, County Dublin, on 22 April 1894.She was the youngest daughter of Joseph Hone, of the Hone family, and Eva Eleanor, née Robinson, daughter of Sir Henry Robinson and granddaughter of the 10th Viscount Valentia.