That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for December 18, 2023

God making sure everything is in the right place.

/// The root source of the painting before us

is a tale writ by Gouverneur Morris.

On an isle Polynesian,

people die from a lesion,

like a tiny bite, bloody and porous.

/// This odd island is bare of all trees.

It has grasslands, which fill with unease

all the natives who swear

only fools would go there.

Mr. Graves thought, “I’ll go where I please.”

/// When a roaming biologist comes

to the isle, he and Graves become chums.

Graves had captured a prize

feral “woman,” (mite-size).

To this fantastic sprite he succumbs.

/// Unnamed botanist holds up his glass

to examine the one foot tall lass.

Soon his hand starts to shake;

it has fangs like a snake.

Graves had found her Back There in the Grass.

/// The young woman that Graves had just wed

was attacked and from wounds she had bled.

It was clear that this critter

was the thing which had bit her.

The tale ends with gunshots— is it dead?

Whenever she was with Jonathan, Marie felt like she was under a microscope

It took awhile for William to realize he made his surrogate girlfriend too small.

His models were closely inspected/

To make certain that none were infected/

All resented the scrutiny/

And some chose to mutiny/

And a bold few simply defected.

(And this one may soon dissected!)

Arthur Conan Doyle, an avowed Spiritualist, seems to have believed in the existence of fairy-like creatures. The photographs taken by two English girls in the second decade of the Twentieth Century were espoused as concrete proof of this belief. He and others considered the creatures as a possible parallel branch of Evolution to human beings.

His short book, “The Coming of the Fairies,” is an interesting artifact late in his literary career. I imagine a version of the above illustration would also have suited inclusion in a final Sherlock Holmes tale.

Cottingley Fairies

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https://en.m.wikipedia.Org/wiki/Cottingley_Fairies

“The Coming of the Fairies” (The full link will probably not appear.)

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Mattel quality control on the Barbie production line.

Wowing the crowd at Art Basel Miami Beach.

“Hmm, I thought the G-spot was lower.”

“Up yours, Paul. They’re not THAT small.”

“That ain’t no way to treat a lady!”

She looked just like the picture, but Mel still felt some disappointment with his mail order bride

" I’m afraid so, that is hickey…..Sorry! "

Even God looked for the off switch. (Sorry ladies, I’m only kidding)

Dr. Evil decided Mini-Me needed a girl friend, so he created Mini-Mini.

Jean Paul Nudiste, the noted expert on underground French porcelain nude figurines, films a segment for Antiques Roadshow.

..makes one wonder what the original artist was trying to depict..

This is the most disturbing painting I’ve ever seen on That is Priceless!

“GRRRFFFF! NEW TOY NOT WORK AFTER ME WIND HEAD UP”

Tenderly sculpting the woman of his dreams…….

I have serious misgivings about the consensual nature of the depicted relationship.

Her eyes are up here.

“Giant Jim” Hutchins, misunderstanding the saying about ants under a magnifying glass. Poor Aunt Gertrude.

“Ah, yes… The right one does hang a little lower than the left one.”

A different kind of Hitchcock art.

Father assessing the impeccable detail little Richie added to his sister’s Barbie doll.

Back There in the Grass: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Magnifying glasses in art" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia and Yandex search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: found and once there find the text string Grass, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size, oil on board painting, including a Description. 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3238 (December 18, 2023) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu (even larger, if you trim what’s after .jpg from the URL). I have added a comment there (awaiting Mr. Melcher’s approval) pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. Only work by him used here so far.

“Back There in the Grass,” 1911

Yup, I see. One is a little bigger than the other.

/// Doctor Frankenstein’s “work”was notorious,

and creating a “Bride” was laborious.

He required the aid

of homunculi made

by the sinister Doctor Pretorius.

Pygmalion and the Pygmy.

He never did like playing the “I spy with my little eye” game.

The statuette was so beautiful, it steamed up the magnifying glass.