My Lockdown Life: Collages

2021: March

John Atkinson Grimshaw’s “Spirit of the Night” (1879) at the Edward Place railway arches (and The Bike Project Workshop) in Deptford
John William Waterhouse’s “Isabella and the Pot of Basil” (1907) in the Royal Naval Place Allotments, New Cross
William Etty’s “Miss Mary Arabella Jay” (1819) in front of a heavily tagged white van on Edward Street in Deptford

2021: February

William Powell Frith’s “The Two Main Figures from 'The Derby Day'” (1860) in front of Eat Vietnam bar-b-grill on Evelyn Street, Deptford
Nimue from Edward Burne-Jones’s “The Beguiling of Merlin” (1872–1877) in front of Mr. Potatoes on Evelyn Street, Deptford
Figures from Edmund Leighton’s “Till Death Do Us Part” (1878) take a pandemic walk along Prince Street, Deptford
Celebrating my 300th pandemic Twitter post with Queen Victoria and Albert from Edwin Landseer’s “Windsor Castle in Modern Times” (c.1842) in Pepys Park, Deptford
Two figures from Edward Burne-Jones’s “The Rose Bower” (Buscot Park Copy) (1890) sleeping on Watergate Street in Deptford
Alice Havers’s “But Mary Kept All These Things and Pondered Them in Her Heart” (1888) admiring the yellow crocuses in Lower Pepys Park, Deptford
Figure from Edward Burne-Jones’s “The Rose Bower” (Buscot Park Copy) (1890) sleeping in Sayes Court Park, Deptford
Figure from Alfred Stevens’s “The Painter and His Model” (1855) on a bench in Sayes Court Park, Deptford
Edwin Landseer’s “Saved” (1856) in Twinkle Park, Deptford
Edwin Landseer’s “Eos, A Favourite Greyhound of Prince Albert” (1841) in Sayes Court Park, Deptford, next to John Evelyn’s mulberry tree
William Powell Frith’s “The Signal” (1858) on Watergate Street in Deptford
Alfred Stevens’s “L’Étude du Rôle” (1888) on Trevithick Street in Deptford
Charles Edward Perugini’s “A Summer Shower” (c.1888) on Watergate Street near Twinkle Park, Deptford, in front of a community Covid display
Arthur Hacker’s “Christ and Magdalene” (1890) on Watergate Street near Twinkle Park, Deptford
One of the polar bears from Edwin Landseer’s “Man Proposes, God Disposes” (1864) near the Watergate Street stairs to the Thames
Edward Burne-Jones’s “Cupid and Psyche” (1870) adorning the text I received about scheduling my first Covid-19 vacciation
George Sheridan Knowles’s “Her First Love” (1885) on Grove Street in Deptford
Figures from Edmund Blair Leighton’s “Off” (1899) on Grove Street in Deptford
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres’s “Madame Moitessier” (1856) in front of the Dog and Bell, Prince Street, Deptford. Today is my birthday. If it were not for the pandemic, I would have visited Madame Moitessier at the National Gallery before grabbing a few pints at the Dog & Bell.
Gustave Moreau’s “Salomé Dancing (Salomé Tattooed)” (1874) in front of The Victoria pub, Grove Street, Deptford
Figure from Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale’s “Golden Book of Famous Women” (1919) on Arlow Road in Deptford
Henry Nelson O’Neil’s “The Letter Writer” (1860) on Arklow Road in Deptford
Figure from James Tissot’s “The Bunch of Lilacs” (1875) on Arklow Street in Deptford
George Frederic Watts’s “Miss Mary Fox with Spanish Pointer” (c. 1854) in Amersham Grove Playground, New Cross
Boy from George Clausen’s “Bird Scaring” (1887) on Arklow Road in Deptford
George Dunlop Leslie’s “The Convent Garden” (c.1857–1870) on Arklow Road in Deptford (Leslie image via ArtUK and Sudley House)
Annie Swynnerton’s “The Young Mother” (c.1887) crossing Evelyn Street, Deptford

2021: January

Arthur Hacker’s “Cockle Gatherers” (n.d.) near Russell Square Underground Station
Figures from Edward Burne-Jones’s “Princess Sabra Led to the Dragon” (1866) near Cartwright Gardens, Bloomsbury, London
Figures from Jean Béraud’s “Paris Kiosk” (c.1880–84) outside of the Brunswick Shopping Centre, Bloomsbury, London
Léon François Comerre’s “l’Odalisque au tambourin” on the upper deck of the 188 on Bush Road, Surrey Quays, London
Figures from Jean Béraud’s “A Windy Day on the Pont des Arts” (1880s) descending a British Library staircase
John William Waterhouse’s “Thisbe” (1909) in Rare Books & Music in the British Library
John William Waterhouse’s “Psyche Opening the Door Into Cupid’s Garden” (1903) and the printing press found on the Lower Level of the British Library
George Dunlop Leslie’s “Charity School Girl” (1882) in the British Library’s Rare Books & Music reading room
Figure from Jean Béraud’s “A Windy Day on the Pont des Arts” (1880s) outside the Lord John Russell pub on Marchmont Street
Figure from Evelyn De Morgan’s “Queen Eleanor and Fair Rosamund” (c.1901) outside the Rare Books & Music reading room at the British Library
John Clayton Clark's "A Reader of the Era" (c1900) in the British Library
William Powell Frith’s “Dolly Varden” (1842) at the intersection of Euston Road and Midland Road near the British Library and St. Pancras station
Subject of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres’s “Portrait of Comtesse d’Haussonville” (1845) across the street from Russell Square Park, Bloomsbury, London
John William Waterhouse’s “Destiny” (1900) outside of the China House restaurant on Marchmont Street, Bloomsbury, London
Joseph Clayton Clark’s (aka Kyd) “A Reader of the Daily News” (c.1900) on Marchmont Street, Bloomsbury, London
Bessie MacNicol’s “Portrait of a Lady (The Green Hat)” (n.d.) outside of the Brunswick Shopping Centre, Marchmont Street, Bloomsbury, London
Joseph Clayton Clark’s (aka Kyd) “A Reader of The Times” (c.1900) on a Deptford Landings balcony at sunset
William Powell Frith’s “The Little Gleaner” (c. 1850) near some bins on Grove Street in Deptford
Frederic Leighton’s “After Vespers” (1871) in front of graffiti found on Watergate Street, Deptford
Joseph Clayton Clark’s (aka Kyd) illustration of Charles Dickens’s “Escaped Convict Magwitch” from "Great Expectations" (c.1900) outside the Evelyn Street Paddy Power
Joseph Clayton Clark’s (aka Kyd) illustrations of two Dickens characters (Wilkins Micawber from David Copperfield and Mr. Jingle from the Pickwick Papers) next to the Grove Street gateway to the former Royal Navy Dockyard (now Convoys Wharf)
Joseph Clayton Clark’s (aka Kyd) illustration of Mr. Pickwick (c.1900) from Charles Dickens’s “The Pickwick Papers” lifts a glass while admiring graffiti next to the Watergate Street stairs down to the Thames
Figure from Frederic Leighton’s “The Last Watch of Hero” (1880) at the entrance gate to Sayes Court Park, Deptford, London
Oscar Wilde and three other figures from William Powell Frith’s “A Private View at the Royal Academy, 1881” (1883) visit Sayes Court Park, Deptford
Arthur Hughes’s “Ophelia” (Second Version) (c. 1865) and some tagging on the Convoy’s Wharf hoardings on Prince Street, Deptford
Alfred Stevens’s “Will You Go Out With Me Fido?” (1859) next to Convoy’s Wharf hoardings on Prince Street (Deptford)
Woman holding a dog from Edmund Blair Leighton’s “My Next Door Neighbour” (1894) walks past the recycling bins on Grove Street in Deptford
John William Waterhouse’s “Miranda” (1875) sits outside the Grove Street entrance to the former Royal Naval Yard (now Convoy’s Wharf)
Gustave Doré’s “Flower Sellers of London” (1875) in Watergate Street, Deptford
John Singer Sargent’s “Rosina” (1878) (artist’s model Rosina Ferrara) in front of graffiti on Prince Street, Deptford

2020: December

Henry Meynell Rheam’s “Girl in Blue” (1891) leans against the IALS entrance stairs
Bessie MacNicol’s “A Girl of the Sixties” (1899) walks past a bus stop outside of Burger King on Kingsway near Holborn Station
Figures from Emily Mary Osborn’s “Nameless and Friendless” (1857) crossing Waterloo Bridge at sunset
Photograph of public art near Old Kent Road in London with Burne-Jones’s “Pygmalion and the Image 2: The Hand Refrains” (1878)
Evelyn De Morgan’s “Helen of Troy” (1898) waits for a bus on the New Kent Road near Elephant and Castle
Photograph taken on the top deck of the 188 bus near Russell Square with figure from Frederick Leighton’s “Solitude” (c.1890)
Photograph taken on Marchmont Street, London, with figure from Alice Havers’s “Wide Awake” from the “Cassell’s Christmas Annual” (1890)
Collage made for the December 2020 RSVP Digital Salon that incorporates a variety of images from Victorian Periodicals: ILN, Penny Illustrated Paper, Chatterbox, Punch, Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday, Chums, and Fun.
Fork Deli on Marchmont Street, London, with illustrations from nineteenth-century periodicals: C. Harrison’s “Don’t Leave Your Shopping Until the Twenty-Fourth” from p. 265 of the 10 December 1898 issue of “Punch” and “At a Loss Where to Begin” cover illustration from the December 1899 issue of “Chatterbox”
Evelyn De Morgan’s “Eos” (1895) walks down Deptford’s Oxestalls Road at night
“Christmas Up to Date: A Notorious Company ‘Pro-Motor!’” from the 20 December 1898 issue of “Fun” on Euston Road in front of the British Library
Photograph taken near Holborn Station with figures from Emily Mary Osborn’s “God’s Acre” (1866)
No. 91 bus as it approaches Tavistock Square featuring Alfred Stevens’s “The Parisian Sphinx” (1875–77)
First floor of the British Library with Evelyn de Morgan’s “The Crown of Glory” (1896)
British Library Rare Books & Music room with Alfred Stevens’s “News from Afar” (mid-1860s)
Photograph taken at London Bridge Station that incorporates Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s “Dante’s Dream at the Time of the Death of Beatrice” (1871)
Photograph of the Sayes Court Park gates with animals from JS Dyson’s “The Foster Mother” (1894) and William Quiller Orchardson’s “The Young Housewife” (1878)
Photograph taken at the Q (Deptford Park School) bus stop on Evelyn Street that incorporates a polar bear from the “With an Angry Roar the Bear Rose to Its Full Height” illustration on the cover of the 17 December 1899 issue of “Chums” and some bubbles from C. Gregory’s “Christmas Decorations” illustration on page 9 of the 20 December 1870 issue of the “Illustrated London News”
Photograph of Deptford Park Primary School taken from Evelyn Street with an illustration titled “The Grocer’s Shop at Christmas—Drawn by Foster” found on p. 17 of the 21 December 1850 issue of the “Illustrated London News”
Photograph of Deptford Park Primary School taken from Oxestalls Road with Bessie MacNicol’s “Deborah” (1904)
Photograph of Lower Pepys Park, Deptford, with Léon François Comerre’s “The Favourite”
Photograph of bench in Lower Pepys Park, Deptford, with a violin-playing figure from Alfred Walter Bayes’s “Samuel Crompton Inventing the Spinning Mule” (1880)
Photograph of flytipped broken table in Upper Pepys Park with figure from Alfred Walter Bayes’s “Day Dreams” (c.1902–1903)
Photograph of the Thames and Canary Wharf that incorporates Edward Burne-Jones’s “Temperantia” (1872)
Photograph of Greenland Pier, Surrey Quays, London with figure from Leon François Comerre’s “The Pretty Maid” (c.1916)
Photograph of Deptford Landings water feature with hand-coloured ice skating figures from a black-and-white 26 November 1892 (p. 54) “Illustrated London News” drawing called “A Christmas Greeting” by E. Morant Cox (Engraved by R. Taylor & Co)
Photograph of Lower Pepys Park, Deptford with two snowball throwing boys (hand coloured) from Alfred Hunt’s “Christmas in the Good Old Times: The Watchman’s Christmas Box” illustration from the 19 December 1891 issue of the “Penny Illustrated Paper” (p. 31)
Photograph taken in Victoria Embankment Gardens that incorporates figures from Emily Mary Osborn’s “For the Last Time” (1864)
Photograph taken in Victoria Embankment Gardens that incorporates figure from Léon François Comerre's "Portrait of the Ballerina Rosita Mauri"
Photograph of the Thames and Canary Wharf that incorporates Edward Burne-Jones's "Vespertina Quies" (1893)
Photograph of a bus stopped near Holborn Station with Tissot's "La Japonaise au bain" (1864) at the back door of the bus
Photograph of a McMillan and Wheeler merman fountain sculpture in Trafalgar Square with Frank Bernard Dickesee’s “Hesperia” (1887)

2020: November

Photograph taken in front of the Evelyn Street Laundrette with a cat illustration by Harrison Weir from “Our Cats” (1892) and figures from Arthur Hughes’s “Edward Robert Hughes as a Child” (1853–1854), William Mulready’s “Studies of Italian Organ Boys and Their Monkeys”
Photograph taken in Lower Pepys Park, Deptford, that incorporates figure from James Tissot’s “Kathleen Newton in an Armchair” (1878)
Photograph taken at the corner of Oxestalls Road and Grove Street, Deptford, that incorporates Edward Burne-Jones’s “Angel” (1881)
Photograph taken in Lower Pepys Park, Deptford, that incorporates figure from Robert Braithwaite Martineau’s “The Last Chapter” (1860–1863)
Photograph of the mulberry tree in Sayes Court Park, Deptford, London, with a figure from the right wing of Walter Crane’s “The Briar Rose” (1905) triptych sitting on a branch.
Photograph of the Thames, Isle of Dogs, and Canary Wharf taken from the Deptford Creek Bridge that incorporates figures from James Tissot’s “Portsmouth Dockyard” (1877), John Atkinson Grimshaw’s “The Lady of Shalott” (c. 1875), and Walter Crane’s “The Lady of Shalott” (1862)
Photograph of a motorcycle parked on a sidewalk in Deptford, London, which incorporates figure from Alfred Stevens’s “Winter” (c.1876)
Photograph of shopfronts on Evelyn Street, Deptford, that incorporates figures from Edward Hughes’s “Adele, Second Wife of the 7th Earl of Essex” (1893) and Jon Everett Millais’s “Madeleine Undressing” (1863)
Photograph taken in front of the Evelyn Street Post Office, Deptford, which incorporates figures from George Henry Boughton’s “Girl with Pitchers, Summer Scene” (c.1883–1887) and Augustus Edwin Mulready’s “A Flower Seller on London Bridge” (1885)
Photograph taken in Sayes Court Park, Deptford, London, that incorporates a figure from Arthur Hughes’s “Memories” (1882)
Figure from Frederick Sandys’s “Morgan-le-Fay” (1864) standing near the recycling bins on Grove Street, Deptford (SE8), London
Photograph taken on Evelyn Street, Deptford, London, that incorporates a figure from Arthur Hughes’s “That Was a Piedmontese” (1862)
Photograph of Deptford Landings water feature that incorporates Evelyn De Morgan’s “The Martyr (Nazuraea)” (1880)
Photograph taken on Tower Bridge Road near Tower Bridge with Augustus Edwin Mulready’s “Newsboy” (1863–66) . The newsboy holds a newspaper with the headline: “Biden Beats Trump”
Photograph of hoardings and scaffolding around St. Luke’s Church, Evelyn Street, Deptford with James Tissot’s “Mavourneen (Portrait of Kathleen Newton) (1877)
Photograph taken on Evelyn Street, Deptford, London, that incorporates a figure from Thomas Francis Dicksee’s “Ideal Portrait of Lady Macbeth” (1870)
Photograph taken outside the Evelyn Street Londis, Deptford, that incorporates figures from James Tissot’s “Catherine Smith Gill and Two of Her Children” (1877)
Photograph of Deptford Fire Station, Evelyn Street, Deptford, London that incorporates figures from “The Funeral of a Viking” (1893) by Frank Bernard Dicksee (1853–1928)
Photograph taken outside Deptford Park Primary School, which includes a figure take from James Tissot’s “Young Ladies Looking at Japanese Objects” (1869)
Photograph of the mural painted on the side of the Riverside Youth Club (Deptford) that incorporates an image from Walter Crane’s ‘Bluebeard’ picture book (1873)
Photograph taken from Oxestalls Road, Deptford, which incorporates an image from Evelyn De Morgan’s “Night and Sleep” (1878)
Photograph of water feature in Deptford Landings development in Deptford that incorporates figure from James Tissot’s “Holyday” (c. 1876)
Photograph of fly tipping on Grove Street, Deptford that incorporates images from James Tissot’s “In Full Sunlight (En Plein Soleil)” (c.1881)
Photograph of graffiti and construction hoarding on Evelyn Street, Deptford, next to Blackhorse Road Bridge that incorporates image from Jean Béraud’s “Jeune Femme Traversant le Boulevard” (1897)
Photograph taken in Lower Pepys Park, Deptford, London, which incorporates an image of James Tissot (Self Portrait) (1898)
Photograph of the Thames and Canary Wharf taken near Greenland Dock, Surrey Quays, London, which incorporates an image from Tissot’s “The Captain’s Daughter” (1873)
Photo taken at Greenland Dock, Rotherhithe, London, that incorporates a figure from Thomas Faed’s “Violets and Primroses” (1874)
Photograph taken in Surrey Quays, London, that incorporates image from Jean-Francois Millet’s “A Shepherdess” (1849)
Photograph of Greenland Pier, Surrey Quays, London, UK, incorporating figure from Thomas Berteau’s “Young Girl with Shrimping Net and a View of Fortifications” (1857)
Photograph of stairs leading to Upper Pepys Park in Deptford, London, UK, which incorporates Eliot Gregory’s “Ada Rehan as Katherine from ‘Taming of the Shrew’” (c. 1887)
Photograph of Canary Wharf, London, taken from the Deptford Wharf riverside augmented with image from Dante Gabriel Rossetti's "Marigolds" (The Bower Maiden, Fleur-de-Marie) (1874)
Photograph taken at the Artemisia show at the National Gallery in London combined with James Guthrie's "Maggie Hamilton" (1892 or 1893)
Photograph taken in Pepys Park (Lower), Deptford, London, combined with images from Walter Crane's "The Briar Rose" (1905) and Peter Edward Shroehling's "Jane Fleming, Countess of Harrington" (n.d.)
Collage combining photograph taken in Pepys Park (Lower), Deptford, London and a figure from Robert Cree Crawford's "The Water Stoup" (1892)
Location: Pepys Park, Deptford, London Image: "Don't Scorch, Miss; Don't Scorch" illustration from "Miss Cayley's Adventures No. 3: The Adventure of the Inquisitive American," Strand Magazine" 15 (1898): 521.

2020: October

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