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by Lin Grosvenor
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A graceful little goddess, the Spirit of Ecstasy, who has selected road travel as her supreme delight and alighted on the prow of a Rolls-Royce motor... more
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"A graceful little goddess, the Spirit of Ecstasy, who has selected road travel as her supreme delight and alighted on the prow of a Rolls-Royce motor car to revel in the freshness of the air and the musical sound of her fluttering draperies, she is expressing her keen enjoyment, with her arms outstretched and her sight fixed upon the distance."
By 1910 personal mascots had become the fashion of the day. Rolls-Royce were concerned to note that some owners were affixing "inappropriate" ornaments to their cars. Claude Johnson, then managing director of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, was asked to commission a more dignified and graceful mascot.
The Spirit of Ecstasy, also called "Emily", "Silver Lady" or "Flying Lady", was designed by English sculptor Charles Robinson Sykes. He had designed an earlier, similar satuette ("Whisper"), for Baron Montagu of Beaulieu, a pioneer of the automobile movement, and editor of The Car Illustrated magazine. He and the model for his persona...
ART FU Itinerant image scavenger/prestidigitizer, with an eye for what pleases me (think: Francesca Bassington's drawing-room)... also perhaps one or two others. Vocation: Photographer errant, sedentary sketch artist, graphics tinkerer, picker, assembler, fool. (for the canonical compendium of commodities, go to www.hsnw.com) Specializing in everything (honest), but favoring Impressionistic Modern (my term), real scenes and whimsy. Eclectic is me. My sole criterion for selection of an image for inclusion here is that I be pleased to share it with others. I make no effort to make any art product appealing to everyone, so, if you think something is not your cup of tea, just meander along through my other offerings. If you find...
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Don Columbus
Congratulations Lin, your work is Featured in "All Automotive Artworks" I invite you to place it in the group's "2017 Featured Image Archive" Discussion!! L/Tweet
Jenny Revitz Soper
Wonderful image Lin! Thanks for joining the No Place Like Home group!
Lin Grosvenor replied:
Thank you, Jenny. Glad to be aboard.
Lin Grosvenor
Thank you, again, Ginger.
Ginger Wakem
Love the Spirit of Ecstasy Lin! Great color of Rolls Royce too! Congrats on your feature!
Maria Coulson
Congratulation on your feature in the Relics and Rods - Fine Art of Classic and Vintage Cars & Trucks.
Lin Grosvenor
Super. Thank you very much.
CJ Anderson
Congratulations, Lin! Your stellar photograph was chosen to be featured on the homepage of RELICS AND RODS - FINE ART OF CLASSIC & VINTAGE CARS & TRUCKS.