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The National Portrait Gallery in London houses a portrait (91.4 x 75 cm) of Sir Walter Raleigh 1554 -1618, dated to 1588 and painted by an unknown artist. It shows the famous English sailor and explorer, and also author, courtier and poet, who made various voyages to Middle and South America. He was instrumental in the British colonisation of North America, and was dedicated to the seach for the famous El Dorado.

https://trc-leiden.nl/trc-needles/visual-archive/16th-century/sir-walter-ralegh

The portrait shows Sir Walter Raleigh in all the splendour he could muster. He is wearing a doublet with large pearl buttons, a black hose decorated with many rows of pearls, a black sword belt, also decorated with pearls, and a heavy, fur-lined coat in black with straight and curved rows of appliedpearls. The final pearl detail comes in the shape of his double pearl earring
Pearls applied to Raleigh's garment may also refer to his life-long quest for the riches of the Americas: in the late fifteenth century, Columbus had discovered the rich oyster beds along the coast of Venezuela ('Pearl Coast'), which from the early sixteenth century were exploited and the pearls were being exported to Europe, as for instance the famous 'La Peregrine', which, via the Spanish royal treasury and the family of Napoleon, until recently was held by Elizabeth Taylor. But also the many pearls worn by Queen Elizabeth I in her portraits, probably originate from the Americas, and not from the East as is often surmised. The pearls applied to Raleigh's garments are probably also of American provenance.

The back of an ancient Greek mirror (2nd-1st Century BC) depicting the Goddess Aphrodite preparing to hit Eros with a sandal as punishment for breaking a vase.

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On dragons

The dragon Smej Gorynytsch was terrorizing the region around Kiev during the 11th century.

The hero Dobrynja vanquished the dragon ultimately.

This story follows the same pattern as Zeus defeating Typhon or Perun destroying Veles.

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A commercial for children's cocaine drops for toothache. Instant effect and only 15 cents.

On the market since 1885

Hercules wrestling with Death for the Soul of Alcestis by Herbert Thomas Dicksee 1884

The Empress Frederick of Germany as Crown Princess of Prussia by Heinrich von Angeli 1882

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🇬🇧 British ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair at WEF 2023