Bathing Woman & Beadle by John Dempsey - Place Mat placemat Wind and currents constantly shape

Wind and currents constantly shape and reshape grease ice into surreal

nestles in a fertile valley flanked by arid mountains

which are deep cracks in the ice called crevasses

near the border between Saudi Arabia and Yemen

Bathing Woman & Beadle by John Dempsey - Place Mat placemat Wind and currents constantly shapeThis image is from an impressive collection of watercolour images of London street people made by the itinerant English painter John Dempsey throughout the first half of the nineteenth century. The exhibition profiles the stories of town criers, match sellers, chimney sweeps, street food vendors, and numerous other characters populating the urban landscape of Regency era and early Victorian Britain. Remarkable in their incisive realism and providing