Bronwyn McIvor is an artist and illustrator based in Vancouver, Canada. Professor Cadwallader is one personage in her extensive series called 'The Townsfolk'. You can see her various projects and meet the rest of the townsfolk at her website. From Bronwyn's website: "My practice is focused on painting and drawing, with an interest in exploring the intersection of the beautiful and the grotesque." Professor Cadwallader! On his laurels he doesn’t sit— he’d burn the candle at both ends, or the midnight oil at bedtime (eight p.m.), to annotate a footnote. On ceremony he’s rarely standing, the name, Cadwallader, notwith. Abetting his habitual repose, his timid disquietude, in ever trickling drams, the finest of brandies lines his throat. He’s well known, his charges aver, to be toothily kind, anxious to please, a highly-regarded prof. For you, or them, he’ll gladly venture, by carriage, interweb, or sailing boat. A scurrilous mind he could not possess, only a Cadwalladerian sort of brain. The meanest he’ll stoop is to poke or tickle, mischieve your coif, remark your petticoat. His sense of play is decidedly artless, his diction exact, innocuous, obscure. He’s apt to utter the likes of a ‘widdershins,’ or a ‘deasil,’ then leave them forgotten in his tote. And to begin a lecture, the estimable Cadwallader will at times declare, quote unquote: My dear pupils who gather here, these my little talks, the lines in stanzas I prepare, though a tad panegyrical, do no battle, are not preachments, no. They are to me, for you too, I hope, but a strange delight! alan girling ©
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Delightful image and words.
What X.P. said!