I thought that signature was a hoot! For some reason the sheer comic travesty of it all had not hit me before.
Also, I must be out of my mind, because I am sure this portrait is a copy, not the original. I don't remember the trim of J's dress looking as if it had been ripped off in a bar fight, as is the case in this one. I can see the scene now. J-Co (sorry, can't resist) staggers into the Eagle having had just about as much as she can stand of Jeremiah's marital attentions.
Lorna Doone Bell, queen of the C'port doxies, spots J-Co, trying to sip a whisky in her wedding dress, screams "Whore!" and rips the trim. J tries to grab Lorna's wig, makes a big swipe, misses and goes tumbling off the bar stool as the men of the Eagle watch the lady from the big house on the hill in mingled horror and amusement.
Goddess, where did THAT all come from? I'd be curious whether others think the Josette portrait we're seeing now was a copy. They could have decided to make it look more like KLS, if that was the case.
The girl in the picture looks a lot more like Maria Montez than Our Katie!
Crazed senile fan in Boston,
Gothick