Fashions Preserved in Black and White (Prints, Drawings)

Edward Burne-Jones
Study of Sleeves for Portrait of Madeleine Deslandes
1896
drawing
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Jacques Callot
Man in Cloak
(from series, Varie Figure)
1623
etching
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Anonymous Dutch Artist
Standing Lance-Bearer
ca. 1600-1650
drawing
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen,
Rotterdam

Ottavio Leoni
Portrait of the artist's stepdaughter, Maddalena
1617
drawing
Fondation Custodia, Paris

Gerald Brockhurst
Viba
1929
etching
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

James Guthrie
Study of Lady with Fan
ca. 1889-90
drawing
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Childe Hassam
Girl in a Modern Gown
1922
etching and drypoint
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Richard Parkes Bonington
Study of a Young Woman
ca. 1827-28
drawing
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

George Bellows
Elsie, Emma, and Marjorie
1921
lithograph
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

James McNeill Whistler
Draped Model
1873-74
drypoint
Art Institute of Chicago

Jean-Baptiste Pater
Study of Two Women
ca. 1725
drawing
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

James Pittendrigh MacGillivray
La Dame aux Camelias
1894
drawing
(study for print)
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Henry Fuseli
Portrait of Sophia Fuseli
1800
drawing
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Anonymous Swiss Artist
Portrait of a Young Man
1521
drawing
(false Dürer monogram added later)
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Anonymous Copyist after Hans Holbein the Elder 
Portrait of Burghart Engelberg,
Master Builder at Augsburg
1514-15
drawing
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

Peter Paul Rubens
Portrait of Helena Fourment, second wife of Rubens
(wearing houpette on her head)
ca. 1630-31
drawing
Courtauld Gallery, London

from The Art of Poetry

This green twilight has violet borders.

Yellow butterflies

Nervously transferring themselves

From scarlet to bronze flowers

Disappear as the evening appears.  

from Observation of Facts

Facts have no eyes. One must

Surprise them, as one surprises a tree
By regarding its (shall I say?)

Facets of copiousness.

– Charles Tomlinson (1955)