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| Thomas Pollock Anshutz Woman Reading ca. 1895 oil on board Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington |
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| Thomas Pollock Anshutz Cast of Pierre Puget's Sculpture Group Milo of Croton attacked by a Lion ca. 1875 drawing Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Thomas Pollock Anshutz Cast of Antique Sculpture Group The Wrestlers ca. 1875 drawing Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington |
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| Thomas Pollock Anshutz Classically-Draped Models in the Cast Gallery of the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts ca. 1883 albumen silver print Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Federico Zuccaro Self Portrait ca. 1580 drawing British Museum |
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| Federico Zuccaro Punishment of the Wrathful ca. 1574-79 drawing (fresco study for cupola, Duomo di Firenze) British Museum |
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| Federico Zuccaro Flying Putti ca. 1578-79 drawing National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
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| Federico Zuccaro Study of Onlookers ca. 1563-64 drawing National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
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| Indonesian Culture Chest Ornament 19th century gold Asian Art Museum, San Francisco |
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| Indonesian Culture Crown ca. 1880-1930 gilt copper Asian Art Museum, San Francisco |
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| Indonesian Culture Headband 19th century gold Asian Art Museum, San Francisco |
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| Indonesian Culture Necklace 19th century gold Asian Art Museum, San Francisco |
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| Adriaen van der Werff Boy and Girl with Guinea Pig and Kitten ca. 1681 drawing (variation on a painting by van der Werff) British Museum |
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| Adriaen van der Werff Portrait of a Gentleman 1694 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Adriaen van der Werff The Flagellation 1710 oil on panel Alte Pinakothek, Munich |
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| Adriaen van der Werff Sarah bringing Hagar to Abraham 1699 oil on canvas Alte Pinakothek, Munich |
from Letter to Lord Byron
You lived and moved among the best society
And so could introduce your hero to it
Without the slightest tremor of anxiety;
Because he was your hero and you knew it,
He'd know instinctively what's done, and do it.
He'd find our day more difficult than yours
For industry has mixed the social drawers.
We've grown, you see, a lot more democratic,
And Fortune's ladder is for all to climb;
Carnegie on this point was most emphatic.
A humble grandfather is not a crime,
At least, if father made enough in time!
To-day, thank God, we've got no snobbish feeling
Against the more efficient modes of stealing.
The porter at the Carlton is my brother,
He'll wish me a good evening if I pay,
For tips and men are equal to each other.
I'm sure that Vogue would be the first to say
Que le Beau Monde is socialist to-day;
And many a bandit, not so gently born
Kills vermin every winter with the Quorn.
Adventurers, though, must take things as they find them
And look for pickings where the pickings are.
The drives of love and hunger are behind them,
They can't afford to be particular:
And those who like good cooking and a car,
A certain kind of costume or of face,
Must seek them in a certain kind of place.
Don Juan was a mixer and no doubt
Would find this century as good as any
For getting hostesses to ask him out,
And mistresses that need not cost a penny.
Indeed our ways to waste time are so many,
Thanks to technology, a list of these
Would make a longer book than Ulysses.
– W.H. Auden (1936)