Monster nun. book of hours, Flanders 14th century. Walters Art Museum, W.90, fol. 108v.
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Soepel illustratiewerk van een 14de-eeuwse voorganger van Willy Vandersteen.

@medieval_illuminations @aslakr unbelievable. It can't be so ancient.

I'm here to tell you that it's unmistakbly the face of the late, great Joyce Grenfell.

<https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw18368/Joyce-Grenfell>

I thought first of all-time master of disguise Alastair Sim, however the chin of WPC Ruby Gates is observably more slender than that of Millicent Fritton.

<https://moviedude.co.uk/[Film]%20The%20Belles%20of%20St%20Trinian's%20(1954).htm>

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So, what is the glove about?

@xs4me2 @medieval_illuminations You can see it's a left hand glove. Not coincidental for sure.
@medieval_illuminations Some days we are all monster nun
@medieval_illuminations Virgin Mary blesses a rebel fighter attacking an imperial cruiser with a hand sticking out of her arse. Amen.
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- alright boss, what should she have on her face? warts? slavering jaws? forked tongue?
- [shrug] opinions.