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| Henry Perronet Briggs The Discovery of the Gunpowder Plot and the Taking of Guy Fawkes ca. 1823 oil on canvas Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne |
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| Henry Perlee Parker Smugglers Attacked 1827 oil on canvas Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne |
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| William Lindsay Windus Cranmer endeavouring to obtain a Confession of Guilt from Catherine Howard 1849 oil on canvas Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| Joseph Noel Paton The Bluidie Tryste 1855 oil on canvas Glasgow Museums, Scotland |
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| William Powell Frith Many Happy Returns of the Day 1856 oil on canvas Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate, Yorkshire |
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| William Bell Scott King Egfrid and Bishop Trumwine persuade Cuthbert to be made Bishop 1856 oil on canvas National Trust, Wallington Hall, Northumberland |
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| Abraham Solomon Waiting for the Verdict 1857 oil on panel Tunbridge Wells Museum and Art Gallery, Kent |
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| Abraham Solomon The Acquittal 1859 oil on panel Tunbridge Wells Museum and Art Gallery, Kent |
The Past
The debt is paid,
The verdict said,
The Furies laid,
The plague is stayed,
All fortunes made;
Turn the key and bolt the door,
Sweet is death forevermore.
Nor haughty hope, nor swart chagrin,
Nor murdering hate, can enter in.
All is now secure and fast;
Not the gods can shake the Past;
Flies-to the adamantine door
Bolted down forevermore.
None can re-enter there –
No thief so politic,
No Satan with a royal trick,
Steal in by window, chink, or hole,
To bind or unbind, add what lacked,
Insert a leaf, or forge a name,
New-face or finish what is packed,
Alter or mend eternal Fact.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (1867)
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| Ernest Meissonier The Lost Game 1858 oil on panel Wallace Collection, London |
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| Joseph Clark The Return of the Runaway ca. 1862 oil on canvas Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne |
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| Edward Matthew Ward Leicester and Amy Robsart at Cumnor Hall 1866 oil on canvas Southampton City Art Gallery |
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| John Gilbert With All Their Banners Bravely Spread 1878 oil on canvas Temple Newsam House, Leeds, Yorkshire |
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| Charles Napier Kennedy A Fair-Haired Slave who made himself a King 1888 oil on canvas Manchester Art Gallery |
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| Ernest Normand Esther Denouncing Haman to King Ahasuerus 1888 oil on canvas Sunderland Museum and Winter Garden, Tyne and Wear |
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| William Frederick Yeames Defendant and Counsel 1895 oil on canvas Bristol Museum and Art Gallery |