Tapestries
Paragon of Animals
W67, H56 cm
2024
Price £1000
Hamlet, Act II Scene 2 William Shakespeare
… What a piece of work is a man … in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god, the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals …
“The Bells of Heaven” Ralph Hodgson 1917 -
'Twould ring the bells of Heaven / The wildest peal for years,
If Parson lost his senses / And people came to theirs,
And he and they together / Knelt down with angry prayers
For tamed and shabby tigers / And dancing dogs and bears,
And wretched, blind pit ponies, / And little hunted hares.