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| Frederic Leighton Head of an Italian Model ca. 1855 oil on canvas Leeds Art Gallery, Yorkshire |
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| Henri Fantin-Latour The Model ca. 1860-70 oil on canvas Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle, Cumbria |
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| William Black Académie 1880 oil on canvas Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture, Edinburgh |
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| George Bathgate Académie ca. 1880 oil on canvas Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture, Edinburgh |
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| William Mainwaring Palin Life Study ca. 1890 oil on canvas (unfinished) Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
Oath
I swear that I would not go back
To pole the glass fishpools where the rough breath lies
That built the Earth – there, under the heavy trees
With their bark that's full of grocer's spice,
Not for an hour – although my heart
Moves, thirstily, to drink the thought – would I
Go back to run my boat
On the brown rain that made it slippery,
I would not for a youth
Return to ignorance, and be the wildfowl
Thrown about by the dark water seasons
With an ink-storm of dark moods against my soul,
And no firm ground inside my breast,
Only the breath of God that stirs
Scent-kitchens of refreshing trees,
And the shabby green cartilage of play upon my knees.
With no hard earth inside my breast
To hold a Universe made out of breath,
Slippery as fish with their wet mortar made of mirrors
I laid a grip of glass upon my youth.
And not for the waterpools would I go back
To a Universe unreal as breath – although I use
The great muscle of my heart
To thirst like a drunkard for the scent-storm of the trees.
– Rosemary Tonks (1963)
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| Anonymous British Artist Académie ca. 1890 oil on canvas Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle, Cumbria |
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| William Somerville Shanks Demarco (M. de Munkácsy's Private Model) ca. 1890 oil on canvas City Art Centre, Edinburgh |
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| Mary Raphael A Wood Nymph 1896 oil on canvas The Wilson, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire |
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| George Gibb Académie 1896 oil on canvas Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture, Edinburgh |
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| Samuel George Enderby Cupid guarding Psyche 1900 oil on canvas Boston Guildhall, Lincolnshire |
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| Malcolm Drummond Figure Study, Foreshortened 1909 oil on canvas Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle, Cumbria |
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| Edward Wadsworth Life Model Posed for Art Students 1911 oil on canvas University College London Art Museum |
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| Henry Scott Tuke Study of Bathers 1912 oil on canvas Falmouth Art Gallery, Cornwall |
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| Ludwig von Hofmann Die Quelle (The Spring) 1913 oil on canvas Thomas Mann Archive, Zürich |
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| Ethel Walker Académie ca. 1918 oil on canvas Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle, Cumbria |