Christopher Hewetson (1737-1798)

Bust of Sir Thomas Gascoigne. More information here.

Nobody Laughs At Mr. Fish!

Truer words were never spoken, I suppose.

Micaela Flores Amaya (c.1938- )

Her artistic name is 'La Chunga' ('The Difficult Woman', 'The Handful'). More information here.

Los Tarantos (1963)

More information here.

Lungo Drom

José García Ayola, Retrato de gitana (c. 1905). There's a great exhibition about Gipsies in Spain at the Conde Duque exhibition centre until 20 January. Well worth the trip.

Great Supervillains of Times Gone By

Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man. No, seriously... More information here. I particularly like the detail that he gained his powers after 'falling into a vat of amino acids'.

Maria Moravsky (1889-1947)

Great captions, Batman! More information here.

Valeria Sreznevskaya (1888-1964)

Olga Vaksel (1903-1932)

Elinor Carucci (1971- )

Bath (2006). More information here and here.