Anonymous French Artist Study of Model 1810 drawing Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
Daniel Berger Head in Antique Style ca. 1790 etching Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
Benjamin Robert Haydon Study of Head ca. 1812-14 drawing (study for painting, The Judgment of Solomon) Tate Gallery |
Prince Hoare Idealized Head ca. 1790 drawing Tate Gallery |
Anonymous Artist Head of a Cast from the Antique 18th century drawing Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
John Flaxman Antique Bearded Head ca. 1790 drawing National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
William Nicholson Head of the Apollo Belvedere ca. 1820 drawing Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
Daniel Huntington Head of a Classical Cast 1840 drawing Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
William Theed Bust of Achilles 1856 colossal marble copy of antique sculpture (commissioned by Prince Albert) Royal Collection, Great Britain |
Anonymous Italian Artist Head derived from the Niobe Group 19th century plaster Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen |
Antonio Canova Bust of Helen of Troy ca. 1815 marble Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
Johann Heinrich von Dannecker Head with Diadem ca. 1801-1805 terracotta (bozzetto for tomb figure) Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart |
Angelica Kauffmann Classical Head ca. 1795 drawing Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
Christoph Heinrich Kniep Relief Tondo with Head of Athena 1783 drawing (made in Rome) Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart |
Horatio Greenough Study of Antique Head ca. 1835 drawing National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
Richard Cooper Study of Antique Head ca. 1770 drawing Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
"The sky overhead was big and black and billowy and heavily draped with sagging clouds; and there were no stars, just the beady red and white lights of aircraft moving in and out of the horizon, stitching their paths over the billowing purple and black; and the wind bore the sound of them to their ears, and the steady distant roar of the ring road came in great looping waves and reports. There was the smell of cooking from the houses, and of the pavement still damp in the darkness from the day's rain, and of diesel from the road ahead, and a green veiled smell from the park beyond that. Through a gap in the houses Maisie caught a glimpse of a little perspective that opened out, with barely perceptible drama, down the gentle slope on the other side of Roderick Road. It showed another row of houses, and another, and another, until just the roofs of the last line were visible, bristling with aerials and satellite dishes. She looked at the sky and then she looked at her shoes, at the ground they were making, the little gains they made together, one after the other in their merry servitude."
– Rachel Cusk, from the novel Arlington Park (2006)