George Calderon c.1901
A happy memory of Trinity College: undergraduates breakfast together in Downy V. Green, p. 77.
Michel and Vera Fokine in “Scheherazade”, 1914 (The Music And Theatre Library of Sweden, creative commons)
The entrance to Fort Brockhurst (picture from Britain’s Past)
Figure from Gauguin’s 1899 painting ‘Tahitian Women with Mango Blossoms’ (left); George Calderon’s pencil sketch ‘Manu’ (right)
Sir Richard Vincent Sutton c. 1913
Unpublished watercolour by George Calderon, Tahiti 1906
George and Kittie Calderon 1905
Christmas 1901 Cartoon by George Calderon
Frontis piece by Frank Calderon
Monarch Butterfly Madeira
Patrick Miles in his summer house, 11 December 2016
Jean Ryckaert, May 1916.
Colonel Sir Walter Coote Hedley c. 1920
K.N. Das Gupta and Margaret Mitchell in an Indian Dramatic Society production of The Maharani of Arakan, 1913?
Book sent to George Calderon in Russia by his mother, Christmas 1895.
George Calderon, 1912
Captain of the 11
Basic form of the Calderon coat of armsRecent Comments
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‘Library Notes’ (1)
We have just finished cataloguing my Russian library for the American bibliophile who is interested in it. We started on 7 January and in the process I have handled over a thousand books…lingering over some as I went. The bibliophile … Continue reading →
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The diary of a writer-publisher: 39
20 May 2026 A thirty-five minute phone call from Tamara Harvey, who is directing the RSC production of The Cherry Orchard, which plays at Stratford from 10 July to 29 August. Tamara wanted to check pronunciation of the Russian names in … Continue reading →