Grayson Perry Delusions of GrandeurThis publication accompanies a major exhibition created and curated by Grayson Perry at the Wallace Collection. The Collections famous portrait of Madame de Pompadour (1759) by Franois Boucher has long fascinated Perry, as have a great many other pieces including its superb group of English miniatures and an early eighteenth century bronze of Mezzetin, soulfully strumming his guitar. Perry has created a fictional persona, Shirley Smith, who believes

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A Shepherd's Dog

More than half of these vibrant and original pieces are on loan from private collections

Based in New York City

The Atlas Mountains from Marrakech

Wipe clean only

Complete with etched and hand-inked details

Signed and numbered by the Artist

Bone China with lustre rim and handle

to sharply cut men's coats and richly embroidered waistcoats

Gessner and Gainsborough - and to explain the termination of pastoral writing and art with the embrace of modernity in form and means of expression

together with the development of the role of the dog in art