That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for November 08, 2018

The smile that beguiled a nation.

The last thing the artist saw before his untimely death.

“It was nice of them to let me keep the scalpel from my sex change operation as a memento.”

The artist’s term for “coloured chalk” is “pastels.”

Now that’s a classy sidewalk.

“I feel much better now that I don’t have this stick up my butt”

Well, this dead animal covers my Adams apple, now I just need to grow my hair out.

You do remember the safe word don’t you? Well…..Do You?

That . . . that . . . that witch! Well, Minerva McGonagall, I’ll teach you who is better at casting confundus charms!

A little more makeup, dad. We still recognize you.

Agatha d’Agony about to show her phillandering husband, Maurice, exactly what she’s going to do with what she’s holding.

“You talkin’ ta ME?”

“Hey, big boy. One of us is going to poke the other. Who is it going to be?”

Walk softly, but carry a bigger stick.

This curling iron did an amazing job, dontcha think?

I didn’t know they had wristwatches back then.

She uses the stick to train the pet ferret curled around her neck.

Hermione was very surprised to learn that even though her parents were muggles, her great aunt Matilda had been a superior witch.

Portrait of Eleanor Petre: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anthony_Frederick_Augustus_Sandys_-_Portrait_of_Eleanor_Petre.jpg 

(best viewed by Google Chrome which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to info about this drawing. She married in 1880, and assuming that’s her engagement ring, ca. 1880 is my guess for when this was done.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/sandys_frederick.html 

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=5240 

http://www.all-art.org/neoclasscism/anderson1.html 

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/121364692/antony-frederick_augustus-sandys 

http://www.preraphaelites.org/the-collection/artist-biography/frederick-sandys/ 

http://www.leicestergalleries.com/19th-20th-century-paintings/d/anthony-frederick-augustus-sandys/12731 

https://www.artrenewal.org/Artist/Index/478 

http://www.victorianweb.org/art/illustration/sandys/style.html 

http://www.avictorian.com/Sandys_Anthony_Frederick.html 

all have info about this artist, perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the first URL. So far, 2 works by this artist have been used here, and some may remember seeing it before. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2016/02/17?comments=visible 

has its prior appearance, but with a different caption, which while my comment is still there, with the line breaks removed, its 15 hyperlinks remain inactive, and its embedded image isn’t shown. ?&@#!#%&!

Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2077 (November 7, 2018) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

Scary lady. :)

“When I clap my hands you will awaken and you will never call me ‘handsome’ again.”

In the prison in Oakland, there is no there there.

Nor is there much Gertrude Stein there.

“Just wait until I find the person who put me away! They’ll get it!”

Remember, it’s “wingARdium leviosa”