Out, Out, Brief Candle; Unique sub-Religion & Relics all painted in oils on

all painted in oils on linen and laid down on board

meaning rough or stony settlement

for sale or hire (The Times 27 May 1859

and ghost stories have featured dolls and portraits coming to life for centuries

meaning palmistry

Out, Out, Brief Candle; Unique sub-Religion & Relics all painted in oils onOrigin: EnglishPeriod: 19thC & 21stCProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1800 1900 & c. 2021Height: 13Width: 6. 5Depth: 7. 5 (all at extremities)The beautifully preserved and mounted barn owl (Tyto alba) specimen*, perched with poise upon a nineteenth century period fragmentary human skull, the whole a sculptural concoction surviving from the nineteenth and twenty first centuries.Out out brief candle! Lifes but a walking shadow, a poor playerThat struts and