![]() ![]() If you read the World Myths and Legends link that explains the history behind the Nebuchadnezzar painting, it represents the mental state that afflicted everyone who felt the powerful effects of the Devil’s Foot. They act as symbols to the many layers found in this story. Two paintings and two clever choices, if you ask me. ![]() The History of Nebuchadnezzar and William Blake’s painting To further enhance the original story’s strange nature, Granada provided more art history references that I did not expect, but left me pleasantly intrigued while watching.ĭoth mine eyes see William Blake during Holmes’s hallucinations? Since the camera zoomed in for tight up close shots of the subjects’ faces, I will show you their complete form. Leon Sterndale owned African art, but Granada gives this visual aid for that global connection/foreshadowing I already wrote about. ![]() Beyond the term “African curiosities”, the story never specifies if Dr. On the art history references, I have to give kudos to Granada Television for painting such a fully realized world that Holmes and Watson lived in. This connection also acts as a foreshadowing device for the plot twist near the story’s conclusion. While it feels intimate with the misty moors of Cornwall and its ancient past, the global connection between Africa and England looms large over this mystery. I love the atmosphere found in this story. ![]() Notes behind the history of Cornwall in The Devil’s Foot ![]()
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