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| Ralph Chubb The Well 1920 oil on canvas The Hepworth, Wakefield, Yorkshire |
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| Philip Connard The Abbey Ruins ca. 1910 oil on canvas Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, Yorkshire |
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| William Etty The Judgment of Paris 1826 oil on canvas Lady Lever Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| Edward Halliday Contest between Athena and Poseidon for the Patronage of Athens ca. 1978 oil on panel Victoria Gallery and Museum, University of Liverpool |
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| Thomas Matthews Rooke The Dancing Girls 1882 oil on canvas Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Charles Haslewood Shannon The Mill Pond 1905 oil on canvas Manchester Art Gallery |
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| Joseph Mallord William Turner Ulysses deriding Polyphemus 1829 oil on canvas National Gallery, London |
from Forty Singing Seamen
"In our lands be Beeres and Lyons of dyvers colours as ye redd, grene, black, and white. And in our land be also unicornes and these Unicornes slee many Lyons. . . . Also there dare no man make a lye in our lande, for if he dyde he sholde incontynent be sleyn." – Mediæval Epistle of Pope Prester John.
Across the seas of Wonderland to Mogadore we plodded,
Forty singing seamen in an old black barque,
And we landed in the twilight where a Polyphemus nodded
With his battered moon-eye winking red and yellow through the dark!
For his eye was growing mellow,
Rich and ripe and red and yellow,
As was time, since old Ulysses made him bellow in the dark!
Chorus – Since Ulysses bunged his eyes up with a pine-torch in the dark!
Were they mountains in the gloaming or the giant's ugly shoulders
Just beneath the rolling eyeball, with its bleared and vinous glow,
Red and yellow o'er the purple of the pines among the boulders
And the shaggy horror brooding on the sullen slopes below,
Were they pines among the boulders
Or the hair upon his shoulders?
We were only simple seamen, so of course we didn't know.
Chorus – We were simple singing seamen, so of course we couldn't know.
– Alfred Noyes (1907)
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| John Martin Alexander and Diogenes ca. 1835 oil on panel Hatton Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne |
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| John Melhuish Strudwick Apollo and Marsyas 1879 oil on canvas National Museum Cardiff, Wales |
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| Leon Underwood Erecting a Camouflage Tree 1919 oil on canvas Imperial War Museum, London |
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| Stanley Spencer Cows at Cookham 1936 oil on canvas Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| John Roddam Spencer Stanhope The Expulsion from Eden ca. 1900 tempera on canvas Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| Euan Uglow The Musicians 1953 oil on canvas National Museum Cardiff (Wales) |
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| John William Waterhouse The Enchanted Garden ca. 1916-17 oil on canvas Lady Lever Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| Oskar Kokoschka Zrání (High Summer) ca. 1938-40 oil on canvas Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |