Lying Gallery

The Open Door

Signed with monogram and dated 1916
Oil on canvas 40 x 47 ins
Sir R W Buchanan Jardine's Greyhound, Long Span, won the Waterloo Cup in 1907. Beating Glenbridge to the finals, Long Span's win was the first Scottish victory since 1880. Riviere painted this tender portrait when both he and Long Span were coming to the end of their lives. The dog is shown in a quiet, reflective mood, which may have been the mood of the artist, whose life had not been all he would have wished for

© The Kennel Club

Lie detector 1923

American instrument for the detection of uttered fibs, falsehoods, and other untruths, based on responses of the subject's heart and lungs.
A man can lie, but science has shown that he cannot force his heart and lungs to lie also. A false answer accelerates their action and the apparatus shown above records these variations, revealing the probable falsehood they betray

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Fitters local protection

Photograph: Fitters local protection. Shows a White scout car fitted with a gun and a number of men lying on the ground aiming machine guns to the left of the photograph. From a photograph album containing 206 photographs compiled by Maj Wilfred Herbert James Sale, MC, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), 1943. With captions taken from a separate index volume. Photographs are portraits and scenes of interest associated with World War Two, North Africa (1940-1943). Date: 1943

© The National Army Museum / Mary Evans Picture Library