Grand Tour Carved Alabaster Statue of Veiled Lady with Book gerson Lowrie Childs on wedding trip

Lowrie Childs on wedding trip to NY Murry [sic] Hill Hotel

Another terrific old cat with a lot of attitude

to me he looks much more on the cusp of becoming a Merge Cunningham dancer

and I just found them so beautiful and empathetic I needed to have them near me for a while

Grand Tour Carved Alabaster Statue of Veiled Lady with Book gerson Lowrie Childs on wedding tripThis one! (Forgive the poor photos, I find it so difficult to photograph near white.) I am pretty certain this veiled lady is Grand Tour Italian (meaning, essentially, made as a souvenir for young aristocrats of the 18th and 19th c. making cultural tours of Europe and collecting along the way.) Classically inspired carved Italian marble sculptures of veiled figures had become popular in the 18th century, in significant part as a means for sculptors to