George and Kittie Calderon 1905
Michel and Vera Fokine in “Scheherazade”, 1914 (The Music And Theatre Library of Sweden, creative commons)
George Calderon, 1912
George Calderon c.1901
K.N. Das Gupta and Margaret Mitchell in an Indian Dramatic Society production of The Maharani of Arakan, 1913?
A happy memory of Trinity College: undergraduates breakfast together in Downy V. Green, p. 77.
Jean Ryckaert, May 1916.
Monarch Butterfly Madeira
Colonel Sir Walter Coote Hedley c. 1920
Frontis piece by Frank Calderon
Book sent to George Calderon in Russia by his mother, Christmas 1895.
Figure from Gauguin’s 1899 painting ‘Tahitian Women with Mango Blossoms’ (left); George Calderon’s pencil sketch ‘Manu’ (right)
Patrick Miles in his summer house, 11 December 2016
Unpublished watercolour by George Calderon, Tahiti 1906
The entrance to Fort Brockhurst (picture from Britain’s Past)
Captain of the 11
Basic form of the Calderon coat of arms
Christmas 1901 Cartoon by George Calderon
Sir Richard Vincent Sutton c. 1913Recent Comments
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From ‘The Retiral of C.B.F. Warrington: A Science Fiction’ (Continued)
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Chapter 1 Cuvier stood in front of the large notice-board at the Fly Building – so called because it had housed a group working on blow flies before the Butterfly Pheromone Attraction Research Programme moved in – then turned red … Continue reading →
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9 February 2025 I have unsubscribed from Twitter after ten years or so. It was useful for marketing Sam&Sam books, especially George Calderon: Edwardian Genius in 2018, but I think the quality of Tweets and even images was far higher … Continue reading →