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| attributed to Bartolomeo Passarotti Two Ecorché Figures before 1592 drawing Wellcome Collection, London |
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| attributed to Bartolomeo Passarotti Two Ecorché Figures before 1592 drawing Wellcome Collection, London |
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| Anonymous British Artist Figure Studies of Seated Man and Child ca. 1930-50 drawing Wellcome Collection, London |
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| William Etty Greek Slave (Académie) ca. 1812 oil on paper The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent |
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| Charles Tunnicliffe Académie ca. 1919-25 drawing Oriel Môn, Anglesey, Wales |
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| Lily Watt Académie 1971 oil on board Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen |
In Protocreation
In protocreation
Is my imagination
And in the world's first emergence from gaseous fire
My desire.
Then heaved the earth
In a first vegetable birth
Later according to the record
Experimental animals walked abroad.
The awkward pterodactyl
The brontosaurus
The mammoth and the early lizard
Were before us.
Oh had it but stopped then
Oh had there not come men.
Earth fired
And the seas smoked
Heavy heavy swung the swamp
Crust broke and the mountains poked.
Oh had it but stopped then
Oh had there not come men.
In that high and early time
There was no good deed and no crime
No oppression by informed mind
No knowledge and no human kind.
– Stevie Smith (ca. 1950)
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| Henry Scott Tuke Study for Charlie throwing the Line 1907 oil on canvas Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, Falmouth |
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| Peter Howson Study for Self Portrait - The Dunce ca. 1993 drawing Jerwood Collection, London |
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| Elizabeth Frink Walking Man 1984 drawing Ingram Collection, London |
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| John James Masquerier Académie ca. 1800-1810 drawing Wellcome Collection, London |
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| John James Masquerier Académie ca. 1800-1810 drawing Wellcome Collection, London |
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| John James Masquerier Académie ca. 1800-1810 drawing Wellcome Collection, London |
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| John James Masquerier Académie ca. 1800-1810 drawing Wellcome Collection, London |
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| John James Masquerier Académie ca. 1800-1810 drawing Wellcome Collection, London |
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| John James Masquerier Académie ca. 1800-1810 drawing Wellcome Collection, London |