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| Gonzales Coques Portrait of a Man ca. 1670 oil on copper National Gallery, London |
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| Karel van Mander the Elder The World before the Flood 1600 oil on copper Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Jan Brueghel the Elder Wooded Landscape with Figures ca. 1605-1610 oil on copper Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Jan Willemsz Lapp Italianate Landscape ca. 1660 oil on copper Mauritshuis, The Hague |
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| Jan Willemsz Lapp Italianate Landscape with Buildings ca. 1660 oil on copper Mauritshuis, The Hague |
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| Monogrammist R.F. Miniature Portrait of a Young Man 1606 oil on copper Mauritshuis, The Hague |
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| Adam Elsheimer The Deluge ca. 1600-1601 oil on copper Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Joachim Wtewael The Wedding of Peleus and Thetis 1612 oil on copper Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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| attributed to Jacopo Zucchi Holy Family ca. 1576 oil on copper Musée des Augustins de Toulouse |
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| Jacques Stella Holy Family ca. 1650 oil on copper Musée des Augustins de Toulouse |
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| attributed to Willem van Nieulandt the Younger Temple of Minerva Medica in Rome ca. 1610-15 oil on copper Musée des Augustins de Toulouse |
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| Caspar van Wittel Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute, Venice 1706 oil on copper Neue Pinakothek, Munich |
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| Anonymous Flemish Artist The Road to Emmaus ca. 1600 oil on copper Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Paul Bril Mountainous Landscape with St Jerome 1592 oil on copper Mauritshuis, The Hague |
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| workshop of Paul Bril Landscape ca. 1625 oil on copper Musée des Augustins de Toulouse |
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| Frans van Mieris Portrait of botanist Florentius Schuyl 1666 oil on copper Mauritshuis, The Hague |
from A Word in Edgeways
Tell me about yourself they
say and you begin to
tell them about yourself and
that is just the way I
am is their reply: they play
it all back to you in another
key, their key, and then in mid-
narrative they pay you a
compliment as if to say what a good
listener you are I am
a good listener my stay
here has developed my faculty I will
say that for me I will not
say that every literate male in
America is a soliloquist, a
ventriloquist, a strategic
egotist, an inveterate
campaigner-explainer over and
back again on the terrain of him-
self – what I will
say is they are not un-
interesting: they are simply
unreciprocal . . .
– Charles Tomlinson (1969)