joan hassall ... you never heard of her ? me neither, but am i delighted to find her ? you bet !

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Hassall

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Pitter

https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/hearts-desire-full-sleep/

i don't know if joan and ruth ever met, and until yesterday i never knew their names, but their clear strong minds still resonate ... i like ruth's declaration that she deprecated "slovenly obscurity"

whiteford lighthouse

https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/34289/details/whiteford-point-lighthouse

on a whim ... let's see if there are any other sets of allegories of the five senses before or after the ones painted by goltzius and engraved by by jan saenredam ? this is gonna take a while ...

next up jan breughel and peter paul rubens ...

and then, adriaen collaert engraving from designs by maerten de voos ...

philip mercier had a go ... great set ...

later, in vienna, hans makart ...

of course there were many artists who preferred to show all the senses in a single picture rather than a set ... boilly, for instance ...

emek ... derivative, maybe, but pretty consistently amazing, too ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emek