The caricaturist and engraver James Gillray's biting satires about Sir Joseph Banks.
There is in the collection of the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut, an English painting, datable on the basis of costume to about 1745, that has for many years exercised my imagination.
Angus's latest Trumbology is accompanied by the following caveat: 'This one is reeeeeeally geeky.'
It may seem an odd thing to do at one’s leisure on a beautiful tropical island, but I spent much of my midwinter break a few weeks ago re-reading Bleak House.