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| Henri Cartier-Bresson Alberto Giacometti 1961 gelatin silver print Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Caspar Luyken Rain ca. 1700 engraving Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Martin Johnson Heade Sudden Shower, Newbury Marshes ca. 1865-75 oil on canvas Yale University Art Gallery |
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| Camille Pissarro Rain Effect 1879 etching and aquatint Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Levon West Crossroads ca. 1940 drypoint Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Ansel Adams Road after Rain, Northern California 1960 gelatin silver print Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Günther Krampf Rainy Street Scene ca. 1915-20 bromoil print Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Marjorie Firth Summer Rain 1935 wood-engraving Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Robert Doisneau Le Manège de Monsieur Barré 1955 gelatin silver print Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Alfred Buckham Sunshine, Wind and Rain ca. 1920 gelatin silver print Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Ruth Bernhard Apple Tree 1970 gelatin silver print Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Egbert Schaap Study of Rain ca. 1877-86 etching Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Alfred Stieglitz Spring Showers, New York 1902 halftone print Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Émile-Antoine Verpilleux St Paul's: Rainy Day 1924 color woodblock print Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Doris Harland Osborne The Rain is Raining Everywhere ca. 1920 color halftone postcard Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Paul Huf Woman in Rain 1963 gelatin silver print (advertising image for the London Rubber Company) Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
from A Garage in Co. Cork
Left to itself, the functional will cast
A death-bed glow of picturesque abandon.
The intact antiquities of the recent past,
Dropped from the retail catalogues, return
To the materials that gave rise to them
And shine with a late sacramental gleam.
– Derek Mahon (1982)