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| William Edward Frost Nymph and Cupid 1870 oil on panel Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Claude Monet Beach at Trouville 1870 oil on canvas National Gallery, London |
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| Édouard Detaille Académie ca. 1870 oil on canvas Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery |
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| Henri Fantin-Latour A Woodland Glade ca. 1872 oil on canvas Manchester Art Gallery |
A Woodland Incident
About the bush that hides the nest
Two thrushes dart, afraid to stay
But more afraid to go away.
Below, a shadow stirs the crest
Of weeds, and frantic thrushes see
How surely comes that enemy.
And what it is I do not know,
But I shall hasten to the spot
And find what little brain is hot;
And see how quickly fear can go
To chill the thing that darts away
When it, in turn, becomes the prey.
A squirrel, safely on the fence,
Jerks with his scolding's vehemence –
As if the thrushes had his blame
For building much too near the ground,
As if the crawling thing he found
In flight was less than when it came
And he had found at last the wit
To tell just what he thought of it.
But, sensing his futility,
He lingers on, resenting me.
I do not care, since I can see
The thrushes turn and nestward fly . . .
For they are glad I happened by,
And so am I.
– Glenn Ward Dresbach (1928)
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| Dante Gabriel Rossetti La Ghirlandata 1873 oil on canvas Guildhall Art Gallery, London |
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| William Holman Hunt The Shadow of Death ca. 1870-73 oil on canvas Manchester Art Gallery |
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| Edward Burne-Jones The Beguiling of Merlin ca. 1874-77 oil on canvas Lady Lever Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| Albert Joseph Moore Beads 1875 oil on canvas Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Lawrence Alma-Tadema Pleading 1876 oil on canvas Guildhall Art Gallery, London |
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| Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret Académie 1876 oil on canvas Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Henry Scott Tuke Académie ca. 1877 oil on canvas Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, Falmouth |
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| Thomas Wilson Académie 1877 oil on canvas Royal Scottish Academy of Art & Architecture, Edinburgh |
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| Charles Mengin Sappho 1877 oil on canvas Manchester Art Gallery |
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| Edward Poynter The Fortune Teller 1877 oil on canvas Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Robert Fowler Women of Phoenicia 1879 oil on canvas Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |