A Painter and a Pretend King

Five rooms in a brown frame make a house of inventions and pretend. At top left, a painter with a blank canvas faces a king and queen in costume crowns, among oval portraits and a plaster bust. Top right, a records room has tall banks of small drawers, a round table, a boy and a woman writing, with gift boxes hanging above. Below, a flying machine room has an airship, gears and a window showing a house that flies, while a man shows a toy village on a table. The middle room has a floor of coloured cogs, a man with binoculars at a workbench and a girl with a notepad. At the right, a blueprint office has a drafting table with a map, blue filing drawers, rolled plans and a boy at a drawer. The airship, the floor of coloured cogs and the blue drawers each hold their own corner steady.