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| Johann Georg Platzer Alexander encounters Thalestris, Queen of the Amazons before 1761 oil on panel Government Art Collection, London |
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| Jacques-Louis David Warrior and Amazon (copied from antique relief in the Capitoline Museum, Rome) ca. 1774 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Alexander Macco Hercules and Theseus conquering the Amazons 1795 etching and engraving Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur Ancienne Amazone ca. 1797 hand-colored engraving Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
from More Females of the Species
(After Kipling)
When the traveller in the pasture meets the he-bull in his pride,
He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside;
But the milch-cow, thus accosted, pins the traveller to the rail –
For the female of the species is deadlier than the male.
* * *
Red war with all its million dead is due to female rage,
The names of women murderers monopolize the page,
The pranks of a Napoleon are nothing to the tale
Of destruction wrought by females, far more deadly than the male.
In the baleful female infant this ferocity we spy,
It glares in bloodshot fury from the maiden's dewy eye,
But the really deadly female, when you see her at her best,
Has two babies at her petticoat and a suckling at her breast.
Yet hold! there is Another! A monster even worse!
The Terror of Humanity! Creation's direst curse!
Before whom men in thousands must tremble, shrink and fail –
A sanguinary Grandma – more deadly than the male!
– Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1893)
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| Lodovico Prosseda after John Gibson Amazon falling from her Horse ca. 1823 etching and aquatint British Museum |
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| Staffordshire Potteries Amazon on Horseback ca. 1850 glazed earthenware Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Pierre-Eugène-Émile Hébert Amazon preparing for Battle ca. 1860-72 bronze statuette National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Louise Laffon Terracotta Relief - Battle between Amazon and Greek Warrior ca. 1863-64 albumen print Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Louis Joseph Fuchs The Amazon before 1873 etching Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Anonymous Sculptor Battle of Greeks and Amazons (cylindrical container with relief carving) late 18th century - early 19th century marble Harvard Art Museums |
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| Franz von Stuck The Amazon 1897 bronze statuette Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Franz von Stuck Wounded Amazon 1905 oil on canvas Harvard Art Museums |
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| Albert Weisgerber Amazons resting before 1915 drawing Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Marcel Bouraine Amazon with a Bow 1925 anonymous photograph of terracotta sculpture Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Russell B. Aitken Study for Hercules and the Amazons 1939 gouache Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |