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xoxoxoBruce · 01-18-2015, 03:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Carruthers

I'm not best placed to offer an analysis of the artistic qualities of this painting...

Hey, it was painted by an American, it must be "exceptional".

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...but the sheer size of it will always turn heads. It's just a shade under 18' x 25'

Yeah, how in hell did they handle it, move it around England, to Gibraltar and back, conserve it for 200 years? Roll it up? Don't oil painting get brittle and crack?

Carruthers · 01-19-2015, 04:13 AM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Yeah, how in hell did they handle it, move it around England, to Gibraltar and back, conserve it for 200 years? Roll it up? Don't oil painting get brittle and crack?

Probably best not to attempt to move it on a windy day

xoxoxoBruce · 01-19-2015, 09:50 AM

Unless they absolutely, positively, had to get there overnight.

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