Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog "the atmosphere of schoolboy smut and practical jokes and poetry is evoked with lingering accuracy but with nothing more". Critic Jacob Korg later commented that "taken as a group, [the stories] seem to trace the child's emergence from his domain of imagination and secret pleasures into an adult world where he observes suffering, pathos, and dignity". The book has been described as showing Thomas' "waggish humor at its best, his exuberance & verbal magic in spectacular display". Apart from "Under Milk Wood", the book is "probably the most famous Dylan Thomas book published during his lifetime... certainly the most loved
Portrait of the Boy Eutyches Portrait of the Boy Eutyches Portrait of the Boy Eutyches, also known as Portrait of Boy, is a 2nd century portrait by an anonymous artist. The portrait depicts a young boy, and is currently in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The portrait depicts a young boy, who is named as "Eutyches, freedman of Kasanios" by an inscription on the portrait. The work was produced after the boy's death, and as such the image is classified as one of the Fayum mummy portraits. Such mortuary portraits were popular as an artistic medium in the first century A.D. during