Wow they did let their imagination run wild with the Murray portrait! I didn't recognise it.
The Lord Duffus one stays closer to the source, but still, why not reproduce the original? Rather than re-imagining it?
Obviously taking original period iconography, embellishing it, and presenting the embellished version as historical, flies in the face of proper methodology.
Those re-imaginings do give us a bit of insight into the way their minds worked: play fast-and-loose with the facts, and present their own creations as being historical.
In any case the Allens' creations get us no closer to the origin of the castellated hose.
Last edited by OC Richard; 22nd June 21 at 06:10 AM.
Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte
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