15 December 2009

The Man with the Golden Nose

Emperor Justinian II had a golden prosthetic nose. Tycho Brahe had a similar fake nose. But that's got nothing to do with this drawing.
Pen and ink with watercolour 21cm x 15cm. Click to enlarge.

3 comments:

Steve said...

That's some serious shnoz, meister.

Oscar Grillo said...

I have a golden prosthetic brain.

problemchildbride said...

Did that golden nose have a piercing at one time? Looks like a wee bit of 24 carat scar-tissue there on the side.