On Monday I blogged about this portrait of Richard Croft’s children—where Herbert, aged ten, is lying in the pose of Melancholy, in the background in partial shadow, due to his having died.
The children’s father, the 6th Baronet Richard Croft,… Read More
In the eighteenth century, clerks in Great Britain tied red ribbons, or "tapes," around official documents--hence the origin of the phrase "red tape."
A Perfect Red (1)