Mistress (to Maid) ‘Now, Jane, how often have I told you not to place your eye upon the mantelpiece.’ Brainy maid. ‘You are mistaken mum, that is not my eye but merely the dynamic conception of it’s lyrical form interpreted by infinite manifestation of its relations between absolute movement and relative movement or, in a word, between ambience and object, until it forms a . . .’ Mistress ‘Then you may take a month’s notice.’ (The Sketch, Vol 86, p209.)
Futurism by the Fireside
Museum Number
JB623
Date
May 1914
Medium
pen and watercolour
Decade
1910s
Exhibition
Heath Robinson. Dreams and Machines at Mottisfont AbbeyThe Art of William Heath Robinson at Dulwich Picture GalleryThe Humour of William Heath Robinson