Gratuitous Bertie Dog Picture: The Listening Bertie

“Excuse me, Ruby, could you please close the door?  We’re reenacting a Dutch genre painting in here.  So, unless you have a lute or a pearl earring or a yellow jacket, this isn’t really for you.  Okay?”

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Image: The Listening Servant, 1853, Hubertus van Hove, The Victoria & Albert Museum.

Gratuitous Bertie Dog Picture: Bertie Going to Lunch (Reposted from May 12, 2011)

“That’s right.  Go to the fair, Johnny.  Take the ladies, too.  I’ll look after the chickens.  You can trust me.”

Image: Johnny Going to the Fair, George Morland, Late Eighteenth Century, The Victoria & Albert Museum.

Gratuitous Bertie Dog Picture: The Enchanted Bertie

“You call this an enchanted garden?  Where are the sandwiches?”

Image: The Enchanted Garden, John William Waterhouse, 1917 (unfinished at the time of the artist’s death), The Lady Lever Art Gallery, Liverpool.