Tuesday 25th
We walked down to the Thames and caught the riverboat from Wandsworth Riverside Quarter Pier. The boat ride was a delight on a sparkling, sunny morning with London slowly revealing itself as we rounded the bends in the Thames.
We got off at Milbank for Tate Britain and basically spent the rest of the day there. The intention had been only to look at Stanley Spencer and William Blake but we were lured into room after room – a sort of slow seduction. Much work was familiar; some was new to me – for example Richard Dadd and Samuel Palmer. Also Jacob Epstein whose sculptures I had seen in the past but not paid much attention to.
We ate our lunch from the gallery cafe outside and then Russ painted in a little garden area just opposite the embankment while I wrote.
A return boat trip and then an evening walk along the Thames, through Wandsworth Park, to Putney for a meal.
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