Pet dogs

By great coincidence I bought this set of PHQ stamp cards just a few days ago.  Although they are titled "Dogs" as a series, they are all oil paintings by George Stubbs, an 18th century English (Liverpool) artist probably better known for his paintings of horses.  The stamps were issued in 1991.

Early last year two of his non-horse paintings, one of a kangaroo and another of a dingo, were "saved for the nation" after they had been sold to a buyer outside the UK.  Donations and lottery funding resulted in enough funding to allow them to remain in the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich.  Stubbs didn't visit Australia, then known as New Holland, but created his paintings from sketches made on Captain Cook's expedition on HMS Endeavour.

This is a post for Sunday Stamps, now hosted by Violet Sky at "See it on a Postcard!"

Relax

It's all over for another year!

Just for fun

I didn't realise at first that this fun postcard was vaguely related to football.  The ball is there, a pair of boots is there.  But only 11 socks on the line! The caption on the back reads, "Dressing down the team".

The card was sent to me from Germany on 10 September 2009.