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Layers of the same image one on top of the other. This was repeated on exactly the same spot, making two On the work above, the original album cover art design, 9 square inches in size was halved and restored at the centre of an 10 x 18 inch frame. Presented in “I Know What I Like.” That is truly a piece of synchronicity and the larger framework is the British character. The Dream visually tells a story of a man who simply wants to be left alone, but has other people constantly making demands of him. It looks like it’s really supposed to be there, Peter asked Betty to add a little something to the painting to make it even more applicable to the song – a lawn mower standing up next to the park bench. A big reason, I think, was that the song “I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)” featured the lyrics “When the sun beats down and I lie on the bench.” While Selling England was still in production, Peter saw "The Dream"Īnd thought it’d be perfect. In the forefront of the painting is a man sleeping on a park bench in the middle of a garden. In his quest to make Selling England more applicable to a British audience, he chose an image for the cover that evoked the fussiness and the passive Her style is noted as being “quintessentially English,” according to the British Council for VisualĪrts. The cover of Selling England By the Pound features a painting by Betty Swanwick, one called "The Dream".