Thursday, November 3, 2011

Gratuitous Bertie Dog Picture: The Contrast, Snacks and No Snacks

"Listen, Gramps. Unless you're digging potatoes here, Little Nell and I need you to pop over to the public house and fetch us some chips because there's nothing to eat in my dear abbey here except stale bread and wine."







Image: The Contrast: Youth and Age, John Callcott Horsley, 1839, The Victoria and Albert Museum.


4 comments:

Bertie fan said...

Leave it to Bertie he never forgets the snacks!

Joseph Crisalli said...

And he insists on good hospitality.

Doni said...

Bwahaha...He does not look quite like HRH Bertie-mus with dirty paws. ;)

Joseph Crisalli said...

Well, even the best of us get muddy feet sometimes. : )