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Re: Boston MFA Redux
« Reply #25 on: July 24, 2014, 02:05:48 pm »
Another possibility is Nikomedes II or III of Bithynia:

http://wildwinds.com/coins/greece/bithynia/kings/nikomedes_II/RecGen_40@27.jpg
or

http://wildwinds.com/coins/greece/bithynia/kings/nikomedes_III/RecGen_230v.jpg
(in keeping with the others, this fits with the reversal of
the images in the other drawings)

Again, these may not be the only possibilities.

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Re: Boston MFA Redux
« Reply #26 on: July 24, 2014, 02:26:24 pm »
Thanks Walter
not all of your embedded images, in either of your posts, are visible to me. Might it be possible to upload images as attachments on Forum?
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Re: Boston MFA Redux
« Reply #27 on: July 24, 2014, 02:36:01 pm »
Quote from: Carausius on July 24, 2014, 01:20:37 pm
I like your Delacroix, Andrew. It should be hung on a wall, not stored in a box.

This is a consequence of my choice to live in London. The cost of the wall space to hang this tiny print exceeds the value of this work by the great 19th century master. I've had to compromise, and a Le Brocquoy beat the Delacroix for wall space, already heavily constrained due to the abundance of bookshelves and the necessity of allocating some wall space to windows, doors etc. Luckily my choice of core hobby involves very tiny coins, though I'm unsure I can afford the space to keep my aes grave anymore.

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Re: Boston MFA Redux
« Reply #28 on: July 24, 2014, 03:14:13 pm »
Thanks Walter
not all of your embedded images, in either of your posts, are visible to me. Might it be possible to upload images as attachments on Forum?
Andrew

Not sure what happened, the images appear for me.

In any case, I have added the links below the images.

Let me know if that does not work.

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Re: Boston MFA Redux
« Reply #29 on: July 24, 2014, 03:56:40 pm »
Thanks Walter
not all of your embedded images, in either of your posts, are visible to me. Might it be possible to upload images as attachments on Forum?
Andrew

Not sure what happened, the images appear for me.

In any case, I have added the links below the images.

Let me know if that does not work.

Walter Holt

Neither links nor images work for me, in both cases a messages appears that says hotlinking to Wildwinds from another site has been disabled. One can however cut and paste the link into an address bar and then it works.

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Re: Boston MFA Redux
« Reply #30 on: July 28, 2014, 11:50:10 am »
Andrew,
I checked the images when I embedded them originally, both in preview and
after I clicked 'post'.

For me they were there, even some time afterwards. However, upon seeing
this updated post they are no longer there. I also get a similar message to
yours, that the image will not load via direct link - for some unknown reason.

Is there any obvious reason why those wildwinds images cannot now link?

Strangely, I right-clicked the links I provided and pasted those links into the
browser, and they came up immediately. Since doing so, the above links in
the message now work, even though the actual embedded images do not.

Anyway, I have now tried to add the images as attachments, with the same
names and in the same order as they appear above. Hopefully these will now
work better for you.

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Re: Boston MFA Redux
« Reply #31 on: July 28, 2014, 12:36:00 pm »
Thanks Walter.
the coin photos are lovely and probably match those in my etching.

I'm sure Dane has good reasons to disable website linking to wildwinds. I can think of several valid reasons why it might be disabled e.g. to protect against use of the images in a spam or commercial context, or to protect against denial of service attacks that used image downloads to cause havoc.

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Re: Boston MFA Redux
« Reply #32 on: July 29, 2014, 01:36:38 am »
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No pictures of the Magna Carter allowed....which is what I was told when I took this shot.

I had a similar moment at the Israel Musem after I took a picture of one of the jars the Dead Sea Scrolls had been found inside......key word "after".    :angel:

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Re: Boston MFA Redux
« Reply #33 on: July 29, 2014, 02:00:07 pm »
I'm actually very respectful of the no flash photography rules, which is what I thought was in place for the Magna Carta.  But apparently, it was no photography whatsoever.  The exhibit also had some nice silverware from Paul Revere and some paper 40 shilling notes also engraved by Revere.

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Re: Boston MFA Redux
« Reply #34 on: July 29, 2014, 03:04:17 pm »
Absolutely, and my pic was without flash....the glare is overexposure of one of the halogen (?) lights they had on it.  I actually had to brace myself standing a bit further away and zoom in on it to compensate for the longer exposure needed without the flash. 

I certainly understand why paintings and items with any type of ink or pigmentation need to be protected from flashes, but a clay jar.  Perhaps it's just easier to make a blanket "no photography" policy than to specify that it's OK to photograph this item, but not this one, etc., etc.....

When I got to the main galleries of the Museum, I specifically asked if I could take pictures and was given an enthusiastic "yes, go right ahead".

 

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