The Pictorial Arts: Lemnians

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Lemnians

People of Lemnos, doing . . . um . . . I dunno . . . Lemnian stuff . . .

Sir William Russell Flint — The Lemnians — 1925

4 comments:

Caio Fern said...: wonderful, isn't it ?; July 14, 2011 at 8:23 AM
Annie said...: Comparing this unsavory scene to your comment, I had to laugh!; July 14, 2011 at 8:27 AM
Anonymous said...: It is a slave market, probably in North Africa selling Lemnians captives of the Greek revolution against the Turks, between 1821 - 1827; July 14, 2011 at 10:18 AM
Thomas Haller Buchanan said...: Yeah, that's what I said. Thanks for rephrasing it, Anonymous.; July 14, 2011 at 11:07 AM

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