Above a doorway between a furniture store and a French restaurant is this hand-painted carving of a man writing by candlelight. What it once signified may be lost to the ages. Anyone feel like guessing?
Above a doorway between a furniture store and a French restaurant is this hand-painted carving of a man writing by candlelight. What it once signified may be lost to the ages. Anyone feel like guessing?
June 23, 2008 at 7:20 am |
Based on the window over his head, I would put money on the idea that the building was once a church and that the individual depicted is one of the prolific writers of early Christian church.
January 24, 2013 at 11:03 pm |
He’s evidently writing something. I could have been a news paper. Maybe he had his home above the print shop. The chair & shirt appear to be Quaker & his pen is a quill. I wishI knew now, it has made me very curious.