He just loosed another dry Martini into the undergrowth, and before you could turn round it had flushed quite a brain wave.

So I want you to use your imaginations, thinking of these wall high objects, some of them 10 meters wide, depicting lavish court scenes with courtiers and dandies who would look quite at home in the pages of the fashion press today, thick woods with hunters crashing through the undergrowth in pursuit of wild boars and deer, violent battles with scenes of fear and heroism.