It seems extraordinary, almost unbelievable, but so far as I know - nobody has yet done a group portrait of an Inklings meeting.
But if anyone could do this - whether a detailed drawing, or a painting; and do it reasonably well, reasonably authentically - then I think it would be used all over the place.
Certainly I'd love to put any such attempts onto this blog - as I did with some pictures of The Notion Club:
http://notionclubpapers.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/notion-club-visualized-by-afalstein.html
Get to it - you artists!
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I was thinking of something along the lines of Poet's Pub - below; by Alexander Moffat - showing the circle of writers associated with Hugh MacDiarmid in an amalgum of their Edinburgh Rose Street 'watering holes' such as the Cafe Royal, Milne's Bar or the Abbotford:
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