Dr Emma Merkling, University of Stirling and The Courtauld Institute of Art ‘Don’t look into his eyes,’ I’m warned. ‘They can hypnotise you.’ I try heeding this advice when I finally find myself in front of the painting in question. Azur the Helper, June 15, 1898 hangs on the far […]
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Dr Elizabeth Dearnley, University of London In her memoir about her role in creating the Cottingley Fairies photographs, published posthumously in 2009, Frances Griffiths recalled her first impressions of a wintry West Yorkshire. Arriving from South Africa in the spring of 1917 to find blacked-out streets and snow still on […]