Take, for instance, Magritte's apple that fills a room, Dali's melting watches and Ernst's collage of a proper Edwardian lady oblivious to the anteater that's crawling up her back.

His "Familiar Tune" is a surprise - a charmingly anecdotal scene in watercolor of an Edwardian lady seated beside a fireplace playing a mandolin as two black kittens wrestle at one end of the room and their mother relaxes at the other.

FROM most vantage points, the storied Beaux-Arts peak of the Ritz Tower has been swallowed by the rougher, tougher and taller buildings that surround it, like an Edwardian lady menaced by a gang of hulking teenage bullies.

In "Where Angels Fear to Tread," this Edwardian lady sits at the dining table with her two grown children - the slightly priggish Philip and the exceedingly priggish Harriet - who are equally shocked.

She had often imagined Edwardian ladies taking afternoon tea here, swinging gently in a hammock beside the pool perhaps, while fanned by some ardent, but bashful admirer.

'Why, a kind of fur, pale grey and very expensive worn mostly by wealthy Edwardian ladies with a bunch of Parma violets and perhaps a toque.'

When one has reached a certain level of fame, one sits for Mr. Demarchelier, just as Edwardian ladies sat for Sargent.

Other notables include the gentleman amateur, Giuseppe Primoli, whose shot of two Edwardian ladies with box cameras recalls the early photographs of Jacques-Henri Lartigue.

It was stocked with real terry cloth hand towels and decorated with prints of rosy Edwardian ladies vacationing in the Thousand Islands.

It's not based on the country diary of an Edwardian lady.