Harriet Vane (US: "The Haunted Honeymoon"), with Robert Montgomery as Peter Wimsey. However, the film bore little resemblance to Sayers' writing, and she refused to even see it. Vane was played by Harriet Walter in the 1987 BBC television adaptations of "Strong Poison", "Have his Carcase" and "Gaudy Night" and by Emily Richard in the 1988 stage adaptation of "Busman's Honeymoon" at The Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith. In a 2005 BBC audio production of Gaudy Night, Harriet Vane was played by Joanna David. Harriet Vane Harriet Deborah Vane, later Lady Peter Wimsey, is a fictional character in the works of British writer Dorothy
The Painter's Honeymoon The Painter's Honeymoon The Painter's Honeymoon is a painting by Lord Frederic Leighton, produced in "c." 1864 and currently housed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. This is an interesting composition for Leighton, who usually veered towards Classical images and, in particular, favored nudes - the latter were so prolific in his work that many of his pictures had to be removed from the 1857 exhibition of English art that toured America, because they gave offense. The Italian man who sat for the newly married painter occurs often in Leighton's work: he was apparently one of the artist's favorite