The Lacemaker (Vermeer) hinting again at a sexual overtone. According to the art historian Lawrence Gowing, The Lacemaker (Vermeer) The Lacemaker is a painting by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675), completed around 1669–1670 and held in the Louvre, Paris. The work shows a young woman dressed in a yellow shawl, holding up a pair of bobbins in her left hand as she carefully places a pin in the pillow on which she is making her bobbin lace. At 24.5 cm x 21 cm (9.6 in x 8.3 in), the work is the smallest of Vermeer's paintings, but in many ways one of
The Brown Jug The Brown Jug The Brown Jug (also known as The Jug) is a college humor magazine founded in 1920 at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Following the death of the "Brunonian" in February 1919, "The Brown Jug" was founded in February 1920, making it Brown's oldest humor publication and second-oldest publication overall (Brown's student newspaper, "The Brown Daily Herald", founded in 1891, is the only publication that pre-dates the "Jug"). The "Jug"s original statement of purpose read: ""The Brown Jug, a magazine of wit, administered in monthly installments, is published by the Board of Jugglers ... The Brown Jug