a pint and a painting

Some time ago on a trip to Dublin I whizzed around the National Art Gallery (to duck out of the wind and rain. I suspect it was too early for the pub.) I became acquainted with the artist James Tissot.

I discovered an etching of a pub on the Thames in Gravesend, called The Three Crows. Whilst sitting in the local boozer, The Three Daws and sipping on my Guinness and discussing great masters (as we do) on a Friday lunchtime, it reminded me of this etching by James Tissot seen at the afore mentioned National.



So the jackdaws must translate to crows. What is "quite interesting" as Stephen Fry would say is that it led to a more finished painting called The Captains Daughter.



All this took place 100 years ago about 25 yards from where I write. Tissot is definitely an accomplished painter, and it notches up another historical fact for Gravesend.