#259

Daily Telegraph, November 7, 2017

(35 words) How vast is vast? Actually it is 27ft by 17ft. And what does ‘rarely seen in public’ mean? Does it hide in a cupboard and venture out for a few minutes once in a while? In fact it hangs in the Great Hall of Battle Abbey School in East Sussex, where anyone may view it. ‘Very fine art’? Dear me. This is my effort:

Art in the picture: Google photographs Frank Wilkin’s vast Battle of Hastings (1820) ready to go online in ultra HD thanks to a partnership with English Heritage. The 27ft by 17ft work hangs in Battle Abbey School, East Sussex. (39 words)

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