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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 9h

Ohio Impromptu Samuel Beckett Director: Charles Sturridge Character: reader/listener Cast: Jeremy Irons

Two men surrounded by darkness with what appears to be a single light shining down on them illuminating the table they are sitting at.

Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 10h

Father - Do you stand there and expect me to believe you don't want to marry my son for his money. Monroe - it's true Father - Then what do you want to marry him for? Monroe - I want to marry him for your money!

A screenshot from the scene where the quote is taken from. Monroe between two men.

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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 10h

Is There Anyone Here For Love?

Four stills from the film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes where Jane Russell has an American swimming team wearing flesh coloured trunks as her backing dancers.

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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 13h

Susanna (and the Elders) Top to Bottom, Left to right Caracci, Rubens Gentileschi, Rembrandt

Four pictures of the biblical Susanna being overseen bathing by the Elders. I have just given her as a detail each time. In all three she is scrunched up holding on to a sheet. Her posture resembles something of the posture of the statue in the quoted post.

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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 18h

What other gym plays Powell & Pressburger films?

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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Brighton Pierrots Walter Sickert

Various people in costume on stage in the open air as seen from side on. The glow of a red sunset can be seen in the distance.

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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

James Thornhill Leaf from a Sketchbook British Museum

Two small figures towards the bottom of a page. A woman holding on to a man whose arms are spread. Other light pencil marks over the page.

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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Henry IV pt1 Sir Walter Blunt centre stage and seriously covered in mud from all the soils betwixt Holmedon and the Globe. The audience will wonder who the hell he is. The other actors will ignore him until Henry points to him. He doesn't move and is left standing there at the end of the scene.

A collage using a screenshot from a Shakespeare production showing Henry IV and two others. In front I have put a mixed soldier. The background is the stage of the Globe theatre.

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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Henry IV pt1 BBC (1979) Again, no letter but definite signs of mud on this Sir Walter Blunt. This felt the closest to giving the sense that Henry is seeking (even self-deceptively) to stage manage a publicly valid excuse to brake off from his rash decision (Richard III) to war in the Holy Land.

A photograph of the screen of a DVD player. A close up of a man's head and another man who looks towards him.

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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Henry IV pt1 The Globe (2010) No Letter. Henry already knows the news. But there is a joke. A slightly disheveled Sir Walter Blunt is bid by Henry to stand and give the welcome news only to be immediately interrupted by Henry himself 'The Earl of Douglas is discomforted . . .'

A photograph from my DVD player of Sir Walter Blunt sitting.

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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Henry IV pt1 The English Shakespeare Company (1990) They too had a letter. Henry starts to read referring to Sir Walter Blunt (no mention of mud) then the bearer takes over 'The Earl of Douglas is discomforted . . . Angus, and Menteith' Then later Henry reads again and 'What think you, coz . . . '

Four screen shots from a stage play filmed if the various moments mentioned above.

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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

📷 John Pascoe (National Library of New Zealand)

Clothes drying on a washing line with a few houses behind and to the right.

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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A photo from Barley Studios. The back of one head is hard to make out and perhaps another is missing. However, one disciple needs to be taken from somewhere in the Team Raphael arrangement to account for John who, in the glass, is with Jesus in the centre.

Comparing another photograph of the stained glass with the etching of those sitting at the end of the table.

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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

There are some missing heads but note the sashes.

Comparing the two people sitting at the end of the table with other heads in front of them missing from the glass.

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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Again, spatial relationships have been rejigged but most of the disciples, if not all, can be matched.

Comparing another sitting figure whose body faces slightly right as his head is turned to the left. Again heads on the other side of the table can be matched.

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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Pretty straightforward comparison but it is clear the design for the glass is taking an improving approach to its source.

Comparing two figures seen from behind both straining forward and to their left as if to listen or to say something. They are clearly the same, as is the head of the man we also see.

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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A less obvious comparison. The arm has been raised in the glass.

Comparing a figure with an outstretched arm and head straining forward as viewed from side on.

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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The less obvious heel in the stained glass indicates to me Price missed or rejected Team Raphael's reference to 'He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me.'

Comparing a figure seemingly raising himself from the table.

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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

William Price Merton College His Last Supper is using a fresco from the Vatican by Team Raphael. I'll use a 1675 engraving by Pietro Aquila (British Museum) to explore this further. But to begin, the figure of Jesus, with the disciple whom he loved leaning on his bosom, is not from the fresco.

Comparing a stained glass (enamel painted) scene with that in a fresco. Detailed comparisons to follow.

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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Tim Ayers also identified Tintoretto and Caracci (below). Does he mention anyone else? Raphael was also used. Who did the specific designs for the windows🤔 Candidates so far Antonio Verrio Louis Laguerre James Thornhill Their styles are different to the windows.

A stained glass window that adapts a design by Caracci. I show both.

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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The William Price glass at Merton College is a bit of a puzzle. You can't just rock up and squeeze Tintoretto into this, with this quality of draughtmanship. It can't be done. I've just seen a reference to The Medieval Stained Glass of Merton College by Tim Ayers but I can't access the book.

A stained glass window that adapts a design by Tintoretto. I show both.

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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Midway, his last resistance yielding, he allowed his bowels to ease themselves quietly as he read, reading still patiently that slight constipation of yesterday quite gone. Hope it’s not too big bring on piles again. No, just right. So. Ah! He read on, seated calm above his own rising smell.

An abstract collage made from the torn wrapper of a Del Monte Tin of Prunes, a sachet of Laxido and one of Fybogel.

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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

now the image is so well-defined we can make out not only a hand but a thumb; on the road to Spiddal, a woman hitching a ride; a gladiator in his net, passing judgement on the crowd. Paul Muldoon (from The Annals of Chile)

A sonogram showing the head, arm, hand and thumb of a foetus.

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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sonogram Only a few weeks ago, the sonogram of Jean's womb resembled nothing so much as a satellite-map of Ireland:

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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

My exagmination is a work in progress.

Comparing my latest collage above with four of the figures from the stained glass Supper at Emmaus.

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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Joshua Price Great Witley Aha! Another piece of the Jigsaw Puzzle! 😁 Jean-Baptiste de Champaigne Supper at Emmaus, 1664. So that's Champaigne, Titian, and Ricci (See quoted thread for details of Rubens and Ricci)

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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I see a date of c.1517-19 for the Loggia fresco in the Vatican and a date of 1531 for the completion of the stained glass at King's. But the earliest print I have found so far for the Raphael Loggia fresco is this one by Sisto Badalocchio of 1607. But the resemblance can't be coincidence 🤔 surely🤷🏼.

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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This chap from the Raphael Loggia Last Supper (left) is quite distinctive. And is that him again in the stained glass at King's College Chapel? They both reference the text: He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me. Etching (British Museum) 📷 @simonknott.bsky.social

Comparing two figures lifting themselves from a table in similar ways each raising their heel to the viewer in the process. One is in an etching the other in stained glass. I have also given details of the raised heels.

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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Nice! Thanks. And a bit of modern stained glass (2000) from Sherborne Abbey by John Hayward.

Mary & Jesus with the snake beneath their feet.

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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There are two more, a resurrection and an ascension. It's just a guess but I don't think the Prices designed their windows. Instead they would produce their enamel painted stained glass windows from designs they were given. All 📷s in thread by Aidan McRae Thomson.

Two stained glass (enamel painted) windows. One of the resurrection and the other of the ascension. Both are difficult to make out from this distance and given the level of deterioration.

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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

William Price Snr Merton College I want to explore this one further, but, for now, a number of the disciples around the Last Supper table are based on the Last Supper from the Raphael Loggia at the Vatican (British Museum).

Comparing a stained glass (enamel painted) Last Supper with one from a print. A number of the figures have the same pose.

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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

William Price Snr Merton College Following on from Price's crucifixion based on Tintoretto (see quoted thread) this Adoration of the Shepherds is tweaking a design by Annibale Caracci (British Museum). There's a similar window at Wytham, so possibly by one of the Prices.

Comparing a stained glass (enamel painted) scene with that from an etching. They are pretty much the same.

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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I don't like the look of this. Two different styles of painting, two different levels of deterioration. John is original, Mary is a replacement . . . surely. Church, Lower Ham Churches Conservation Trust

Comparing the heads and figures of Mary & John.

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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

St John the Baptist, Hatch Beauchamp Lots of reproductions of several original bench ends. Someone came, turned on the lights, gave me a lesson in spotting the originals🙂! They're the battered ones 😔! Comper delight😁, John with a camel head dangling between his legs. bsky.app/profile/mark...

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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

St Peter & St Paul, North Curry A tweaked bit of Julius Schnorr Von Carolsfeld in stained glass. Conversion of Paul

Conversion of Paul in stained glass and in an engraving. Clearly the stained glass is using the engraving.

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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Aha! I recognise John the Evangelist. He comes from the Medieval stained glass at York. This window is by Wailes. I've seen him do this John before ⤵️ bsky.app/profile/mark... In the original the eagle's head points away from John and it has a scroll as well. St Gregory's, Stoke St Gregory

A stained glass window of three standing figures, one of which can be compared with those in the quoted post.

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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

St Andrew's, Aller Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange.

A stone effigy, much eroded, as if it has spent a lot of time outside.

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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Reader, I came back. It seems the Churches Conservation Trust is dating the glass to the church's restoration in 1668.

Stained glass window showing Mary and John either side of a cross.

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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I went searching through Burlison & Grylls. Mary and child are to the same design as at St Mary's, Everdon (right). Rex Harris (📷) & Historic England say Burlison & Grylls.

Two stained glass panels of Mary and child to the same design.

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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

St Andrew's, High Ham This wooden lock case houses a locking mechanism still in use.

Photograph of the inside of a wooden church door.

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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The church at Low Ham Churches Conservation Trust Gone 4pm at which point the rocket launcher (presumably, from one of the crusades) keeps visitors away.

A church with what looks like a mobile army rocket launcher outside.

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