Lockdown 2.0 update; we will continue working with click & collect and delivery

 As you know Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced a second lock-down from 00.01am on Thursday 5 November. As per government guidelines we shall be open for click-and-collect service and we shall continue shipping (although shipping services could be a bit slower than usual).


If you are coming for click-and-collect service the items must be paid for in advance, you will have to make an appointment (either via email or telephone) and we shall hand you the items at the door. The door shall be locked so either knock loudly or give us a ring. Please keep in mind the government guidelines of hands, face, space. 

We shall be working 10am-5pm Monday-Friday. We are playing it by ear so any changes we shall let you know.

On a lighter note yesterday we put out a new newsletter containing Ten of the Best Male Nudes! You can browse other nudes here.

 
 
St. John in the Wilderness. Saint Jean Baptiste dans le Desert. To His most Serene Highness Charles Theodore, Elector Palatine, Reigning Duke of Bavaria, &c. &c. &c. This Plate engraved by his Gracious Permission frm the Origional Picture in the Electoral Gallery of Dusseldorf, is Dedicated by His Most Devoted and Obedient Humble Servants. Valentine Green. Rupert Green. [with crest].
Painted by Raffaello. Engraved by V. Green, Mezzotinto Engraver to his Majesty & to the Elector Palatine.
In Monsr. Pigages's Catalogue of the Dusseldorf Galelry, this Subject is No. 165 / Published July 1st 1797 by V.&R. Green Newman Street, London.
Mezzotint. 660 x 407mm. Trimmed along plate mark at bottom, with minor creases and slight rubbing in places. Fine.
Originally published 1792. Valentine Green (1739 - 1813) was a mezzotinter, Associate Royal Academician and publisher (usually of his own prints) and, in later years in association with his son, Rupert. Depicts St John as a young man, naked apart from the edge of a cloak over his leg, sitting, leaning to the right, resting on the bank of a small waterfall, holding a bowl in his right hand, and with a wooden cross in the other. There is a view of a town and a circular classical building in the background on the left.
Whiteman: 268: this state not listed.
[Ref: 7040] 

 

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