Folding 1

A not very good illustration of some Hanoverian, not to say, Royal, painted folding to compare with DT's real folding of the previous post. Taken in one of the state rooms in Hampton Court Palace.

It seems to be a feature of the telephone that, however you hold it, a picture like this never comes out as a rectangle, always a trapezium or worse. I wondered whether it was all down to the eye of the camera being maybe a metre below the centre of the picture. Perhaps I should have asked a trustee for a chair to stand on, or perhaps asked to borrow one of those selfie poles that far eastern tourists are fond of. Not that I saw one on this particular occasion.

I wondered also about the evolution of a rich cloak to keep a rich man warm, the Palace being quite cold on this bright spring day (cold enough that the trustees were glad of their red greatcoats), to this item of display which must have been pretty useless for anything other than coronations.

It also had the effect, on me, of making the small man inside the large cloak, look rather ridiculous. Perhaps it worked better in real life with train bearers, trumpets and all the full performance.