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Inspiration for Art

Kenn Cameron found a lithograph entitled

A Cozy Corner.

The illustration is by

American Francis Davis Millet (1846-1912).

A Cozy Corner

is in New York

‘

s

Metropolitan Museum of Art.

In the illustration we see a corkscrew hanging above the shelf above a dreamy

girl.

Pictured to the right of Millet

‘

s illustration is a c.1910 illustration by Coles

Phillips (1880-1927) entitled

Know All Men by These Presents

. Phillips was well-

known for his

―

fadeaway girl

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designs in which the main part of the body blends

into the background. In Phillips illustration we also find a corkscrew mounted on

the wall above the girl.

Was Phillips

‘

inspiration for the corkscrew, the earlier illustration of Millet?

Surely we don

‘

t normally expect to find a corkscrew so inaccessible except in the

rooms of collectors of these twisted things, do we?