Vienna
Wed 12/10/2011
[A special Hello to Dot and Mundi, no prompting required! Also why no comments on my blogs?]
I had a number of ANZ spam type emails so I thought I had better check my ANZ Credit Card account. I have not been using this card so there should not have been anything on it but I checked just in case. Sure enough there was nearly $400.00 owing but I could not get the transaction details. I have been here before, so I transferred funds to zero out the account and will argue about the details later in Australia. Sometimes annual fees for insurance or RACQ catch up to you unexpectedly.
I then had breakfast and went off into the cold rain (yes, it is raining again) to the Laundromat to do a full wash prior to travelling tomorrow. Relatively painless process but I was soaked from the waste down. When I got back to the Hotel I asked the Desk Clerk for the iron and ironing board "to dry my wet trousers" and iron my freshly washed shirts. I am going to have to buy at least one new shirt in London although the rest of my gear seems to have held-up pretty well. The Midi canal stains on both the shirt and T-shirt I wore appear to be permanent however.
I got to work last night and lined up the images from Vienna with those from London; i.e., Bauer's sketches with the corresponding finished painting. It came together really well and I am happy that chapter is closed. I have to try to do the same thing with Lesueur's drawings (from Le Havre) and his finished works from Paris. It will be nice to have two similar stories to tell. After last nights efforts I am much happier about what I gained from the Vienna field-work.
I can see I have the basis for a preliminary project seminar now, based on my field-work results. Actually a nice art-history detective story, with a positive outcome!
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