#The Cheynes

[theatrepup]

Mick Fleetwood talks about touring with the Stones and meeting Brian in 1964:

"The Cheynes recorded a few singles, gained momentum around London, and in 1964 did a tour with the Rolling Stones just as their star began to rise....That tour was magical to me. The Stones really took care of us, looking after us like little brothers, and that is when and how I got to know Brian Jones quite well. I feel lucky about it because Brian was a special soul, in many ways far too sensitive and perceptive for this world. A brilliant, fluent multi-instrumentalist, he was the one who founded the Rolling Stones and he had the creative vision that helped them to evolve organically from a mop-top blues-pop group into the mystical rock gods they became--something that many people today might not realise.

Brian had a huge heart and we became friends very quickly. We'd sit and talk about the Blues for hours, trading stories we'd heard about the recording of the songs we both loved. Later, Brian and I became even better friends when I was dating the young beauty who became my first wife, Jenny Boyd. Our social circles became intertwined and we saw each other all the time. Jenny and I used to go around to Brian's flat to hang out and even to participate in the seances he'd hold at his new cottage in Fulham. At the time Brian had a girlfriend called ZuZu [Zou Zou] and the two of them would pull out the Ouija board and we'd attempt to communicate with the dead. Peter Bardens' father had written a book about ghosts [Ghosts and Hauntings by Dennis Bardens] that we had all read, so we were scared and fascinated at the same time.

I'm far from the first to have said so, but I'd like to confirm that Brian Jones was, without question, one of the sweetest human beings and the most visionary musician I've ever met. He's yet another who died too young, at twenty-seven, the same age as far too many of his peers--Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison, as well as Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse in the years to come."

--Play On: Now, Then & Fleetwood Mac, The Autobiography by Mick Fleetwood and Anthony Bozza

Mick Fleetwood's photo: https://youtu.be/NMHT_tFZHoA?si=cLA4V8EZxLaIw6lZ

[a-book-of-creatures]

This Valentine's day, find your salamander.

Art by Frank Cheyne Papé for At the Sign of the Reine Pedauque (La Rôtisserie de la reine Pédauque) (1922) by Anatole France.

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Frank Cheyne Papé - The Story of the Little Merman, 1909

[practicalsmagic]

@artbychayne : SLAYERS

[thefugitivesaint]

Frank Cheyne Papé (1878-1972), 'Falcon The Hunter', ''The Russian Story Book'', 1916 Source

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Cheyne Gallarde, The Substance, 2024

[enchantedbook]

From 'The Russian Story Book' : The Burning Arrow, #illustration by Frank Cheyne Pape, (1878 - 1972)

[i-am-countess-olivia]

Notes on this image below. Detail from source

John Powles Cheyne served with James Clark Ross on the Enterprise / Investigator search for Franklin in 1848-49. He had a keen interest in photography, taking haunting stereoscopic images of the doomed expedition's relics when they made their way back with McClintock in 1859. In later life, he proposed reaching the North Pole by balloon — hence this image.

Today I learned that unmanned messaging balloons were deployed during some of the Franklin rescue missions. I love the image of a balloon lifting off from a ship and drifting, lonesome, above the Arctic desolation.

[sogniillustrati]

"Cigni selvatici" fiaba di Hans Christian Andersen illustrata da Frank Cheyne Papé (Camberwell, Londra 1878 - Bedfordshire 1972), edizione del 1910.

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Dazzling Photo of the Milky Way Glitters Over Death Valley’s Famous Racetrack Playa

Photographer: Paul Cheyne

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Tish my beloved !!!

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instagram.com/cheyne.harrison instagram.com/bradleedotcom 2022/02/14

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Illustrations by Frank Cheyne Papé (1878-1972)

in Sigurd and Gudrun: an ancient tale of constancy in love / retold by W.E. Sparkes, published in 1913 (full book can be found here).

[thefugitivesaint]

Frank Cheyne Papé (1878-1972), ‘Lillerkort with his magic sword..’, “The Diamond Fairy Book”, 1897 Source

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Adrian Shine, leader of the Loch Ness Project / Photo: russell cheyne/Reuters

[enchantedbook]

'At the Sign of the Reine Pedauque by Anatole France, illustrated by Frank Cheyne Pape, 1922