John William Godward, British
When You Try To Draw Jupiter But It Comes Out Looking Like Some Dude Standing on a Toilet, 1915
Oil on canvas
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/// Livy’s thoughts as she studied her sketch:
“Now I need a large canvas to stretch.
I shall paint him in oils,
and then, after my toils,
when I sell it, what price might it fetch?”
/// For her model, a statue of Jove
on a pedestal, but Livy strove
to some humor evoke
with a caption— a joke.
“Yech! My limerick belongs in the stove.”
/// And the joke that was burnt up by Livy,
was that Jupiter stood on a privy.
Livy knew it was lame,
and her painting’s the same.
There would be no great fortune to divvy.
FYI: Livy hated it when other Romans called her LIV. (She was, after all, only XXVIII.)