G B Shaw

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I knew about the existence of those photos, John pointed out a semi nude Rodin one, I have others from an article about Shaw in the 1992 - probably the last time they did an exhibition of Shaw's pictures in my scrapbook, especially one of him nude sunbathing on a beach. *cough*

I am glad they are digitising the archive though...

As a younger man, gosh he was attractive (although he did have rather strange chicken legs!) You can see why he charmed the ladies (and I suspect at least one case, maybe gentlemen - I mean can you not look at all those posed self portraits and think Wildean Dandy? Hmmm....).



Love to know his opinion on Wilde, as an Irish writer in London at the time....oh I checked on Wikipedia, apparently he was in correspondence with 'Bosie'. Interesting...

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P.S. his friendship to Harley Granville Barker set off the alarms. A very close friendship...