The art of GKC
Posted by Nick Milne on August 25, 2008
For the rest of the week I’ll be posting one piece of Chesterton’s delightful and humorous artwork per day, with the exception of Friday which will see something of a deluge, if all goes according to plan. From now until Thursday, though, we’ll see plates taken from the pages of Maisie Ward’s Return to Chesterton (1952), the follow-up to her wildly successful (and literarily excellent) biography, Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1943).
The first of these plates sees a pair of lovers surprised in Bedford Park. There were some problems with the resize feature earlier (and they’ve been highly annoying), but I think they may have been resolved. Large as the image now is, you can click it to see it even larger…
The text reads: “Bedford Parkers see a Dreadful Vision of the Future: an old acquaintance going to Church.”
cburrell said
The ‘click to enlarge’ feature is not working for me. I’m not sure why.
Nick Milne said
You’re not the only one. None of them are! Not here or on that Batman post… Crap. I’m using an unfamiliar computer right now (with IE instead of Firefox) and there have been a number of differences in how the WordPress software has been working for me, so it’s possible that this has something to do with it. The trouble is that I made these posts in advance, and when the “click-to-enlarge” feature didn’t work in the post preview I just assumed (or hoped) that it would work for real in the actual post. I guess I’m going to have to fix it, somehow, but I’ve no idea how.
I’ll see what I can do.
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