Description
Featuring artwork from NancyJeanette Long this postcard has the quote ‘…one can’t be angry when one looks at a Penguin,’. This originates from a letter penned by John Ruskin to Charles Eliot Norton on November 4th, 1860.
Norton, an esteemed American author, social critic, and Harvard professor, forged a deep friendship with Ruskin. This friendship endured over several decades, with Ruskin even appointing Norton as his literary executor.
In the letter, now housed at Penn State University, Ruskin reflects on his state of mind, finding solace in observing penguins at the British Museum amidst his frustrations with societal issues.
“When I begin to think at all, I get into states of disgust and fury at the way the mob is going on (meaning by mob, chiefly Dukes, Crown Princes, and such like persons) that I choke; and have to go to the British Museum and look at Penguins till I get cool. I find Penguins at present the only comfort in life. One feels everything in the world so sympathetically ridiculous; one can’t be angry when one looks at a Penguin.”
All our postcards are 148 x 105 mm and have a Brantwood logo & address lines on the rear.
