Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog is a collection of short prose stories written by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, first published by Dent on 4 April 1940. The first paperback copy appeared in 1948, published by the British Publishers Guild. All of the stories are autobiographical and all are set in the writer's native Swansea in South Wales. Written over a number of years, the often comic stories show glimpses of his life, from early childhood up to his teens as a young reporter for the "South Wales Daily Post".
Portrait of a Young Man (Lotto, Accademia) Portrait of a Young Man (Lotto, Accademia) Portrait of a Young Man or Portrait of a Gentleman in his Study is a c.1530 painting by Lorenzo Lotto, now in the Gallerie dell'Accademia of Venice, whose collections it entered from a private collection in 1930. It is known in Italian as "Giovane malato", literally "The Ill Young Man" - the flower with leaves is thought to be a symbol of disappointment in love or an illness, perhaps melancholy. The subject also turns his back on worldly pleasures (symbolised by a hunting horn, a dead bird and a lute). More so than