James Tissot, French
Portrait of Benjamin Button at Six Weeks, 1878
Oil on panel
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Oil on panel. Click “Object info” in its http://manchesterartgallery.org/collections/search/collection/?id=1925.47 webpage.
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/// Here’s The Warrior’s Daughter. She strolled
Regent’s Park while her father was rolled
in an invalid chair
by his manservant there,
all three bundled up snug from the cold.
/// “When he goes with his daughter outside,
my old Colonel insists on a ride
in his customized cart,
but each time we depart
my requests for some rest are denied.”
/// He had walked with a limp many years.
Now a fall reawakened her fears.
But the rich Convalescent
is infirm, not senescent.
As he’s pushed, with a long rod he steers.
/// The device in which this old man rode
was deluxe; he went out when it snowed.
A raised hood blocked the sky
and would keep his head dry.
In a niche inside, liquor was stowed.