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Fancy a pint at The Adolf ? His lookalike: John Masefield's pub sign portrait Unmistakable: Adolf Hitler.
The Daily Mail (London, England)
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November 9, 2007
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IT was intended to celebrate the best of British.
But the sign above the newlyopened John Masefield pub had exactly the oppositeeffect.
Locals didn't recognise the picture of the former poet laureate - instead theythought he was Hitler.
Before long, the pub, part of the JD Wetherspoon chain, had been nicknamed TheAdolf.
Manager Seanie Walsh, 55, said: 'It's the only thing people are talking aboutwhen they come in.
'We must admit that the sign does look exactly like Hitler - but it didn'toccur to us until after we had put it up. ' ...
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Culture Minister defers export of portrait of British Diplomat by Rosalba Carriera.
M2 Presswire
; ...portrait of British Diplomat by Rosalba Carriera(C)1994-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS...British diplomat Sir James Gray by Rosalba Carriera. This will provide a last chance...Grand Tour on British taste. Rosalba Carriera (1675-1757) was the pre...
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Guerrilla Girls fight war against discrimination
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; ...tonight to Washburn call themselves Rosalba Carriera, an 18th-century Venetian...masks," Thomas said. To which Carriera later countered, "But we look...it's hard to complain." Rosalba Carriera and Alma Thomas, of the Guerrilla...
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; ...is attributed to the German artist and chemist Johann Alexander Thiele [1685-1752], it was Rosalba Carriera who was its real pioneer. Carriera [1675-1758], a Venetian woman, painted beautiful, fully finished pastel portraits. In 1720...
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; ...that Johnston was an associate of the Venetian artist Rosalba Carriera (1675-1757), arguing that Johnston was already established in Charleston by the time Carriera popularized pastel drawing. On the basis of two pastels...
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The demand drains market Going, going, gone: art's disappearing act
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...another portrait of a Scottish duke drawn in pastel around 1730 by the Venetian artist Rosalba Carriera. The Gerard sold for $1.87 million and the Carriera for $621,000. Both went to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, which made known...
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Going, going, gone: art's disappearing actThe demand drains market
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...another portrait of a Scottish duke drawn in pastel around 1730 by the Venetian artist Rosalba Carriera. The Gerard sold for $1.87 million and the Carriera for $621,000. Both went to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, which made known...
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Travesias/ Venecia sin ti.(Primera Fila)
Newspaper article from: Reforma (México D.F., México)
; ...autores como Tintoreto, Tiepolo, Canaleto, Belloto, Carriera, Veronese, Bella, quienes establecieron una relacin...exposicin sobresale la participacin de una mujer, Rosalba Carriera, pionera en explorar las posibilidades de la pintura...
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Picture galleries outside London: the Bath and Bristol galleries.
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; ...overposed Head of a Young Girl contrasts with the severe honesty of the portrait of Catherine the Great, attributed to Rosalba Carriera, in which Catherine's imperious porcine face is tricked out in incongruous baubles. The Victoria Gallery, although...
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The Sun Sets on Venice
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...languish in lonely garrets; to the deserving, fame and fortune came early and in abundance. Zanetti's associate Rosalba Carriera, for instance, studied widely in Italy and Paris and established what amounted to a mail-order business. Her...
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Exhibitions: The pleasures of the flash
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Redford's new book, Venice and the Grand Tour (Yale, pounds 20), which draws attention to the individual art of Rosalba Carriera. Her portrait of Walpole in the Tate show is quite lovely, and surely her use of pastel in formal portraiture...
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