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| Anonymous Venetian Printmaker Battle of Zonchio between Turks and Venetians 1499 hand-colored woodcut, printed on two joined sheets British Museum |
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| Hans Burgkmair the Elder Virgin and Child with St Conrad and St Pelagius (patrons of the city of Constance) 1499 hand-colored woodcut and letterpress British Museum |
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| Albrecht Dürer Constructed Figure (Female) 1500 drawing British Museum |
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| Hans Holbein the Younger Studies of a Woman in an English Hood ca. 1532-35 drawing British Museum |
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| attributed to Samuel van Hoogstraten Youth with Flute ca. 1646 drawing British Museum |
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| Pieter de Hooch The Mother ca. 1665 oil on canvas Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Jean-François Janinet after Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini The Three Graces 1786 color aquatint British Museum |
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| Richard Cosway Love uniting War and Peace before 1821 drawing British Museum |
| John Sell Cotman Chateau in Normandy ca. 1835 watercolor on paper British Museum |
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| Winslow Homer Watching from the Cliffs 1881 watercolor on paper Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina |
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| Thomas Eakins J. Laurie Wallace as Life Model (study for painting, Arcadia) ca. 1883 platinum print Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| Kenyon Cox Cover Design for McClure's Magazine ca. 1896-97 drawing Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Kenyon Cox Cover of McClure's Magazine for January 1897 lithograph Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| George Hurrell Joan Crawford 1934 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Carl Robert Holty Abstract Painting ca. 1935-40 oil on board Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas |
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| Edward Hopper First Row Orchestra 1951 oil on canvas Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| Scott Hyde Bronx with a Ruin 1970 lithograph Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
from On the Great Frost (1634)
When heaven drops some smaller showers, our sense
Of grief's increased, being but deluded thence;
For whiles we think those drops to entertain,
They fall down pearl, which came down half-way rain.
Greenland's removal now the poor man fears,
Seeing all waters frozen but his tears.
We suffer day continual, and the snow
Doth make our little night become noon now.
We hear of some encrystalled, such as have
That which procured their death become their grave.
Bodies, that destitute of soul yet stood,
Dead, and not fallen; drowned, and without a flood.
Nay we, who breathe still, are almost as they,
And only may be styled a softer clay;
We stand like statues, as if cast, and fit
For life, not having but expecting it:
Each man's become the Stoic's wise one hence;
For can you look for passion where's no sense?
– Which we have not, resolved to our first stone,
Unless it be one sense to feel we've none.
– William Cartwright (published 1651)
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