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| Michael Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff The Holy Roman Emperor with Electors and Vassals (opening from the Nuremberg Chronicle) 1493 hand-colored woodcut and letterpress National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Ludger tom Ring the Younger Open Missal ca. 1570 oil on panel Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Giuseppe Recco Still Life with Mask, Book and Musical Instruments before 1695 oil on canvas Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| James Thornhill St Paul directing the Burning of Books at Ephesus ca. 1710 oil on canvas (grisaille) St Paul's Cathedral, London |
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| Jean-Baptiste Van Loo William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, with a Book ca. 1738 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Jehan Georges Vibert The Committee on Moral Books 1866 oil on canvas private collection |
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| George John Pinwell New Books 1869 watercolor and gouache on paper Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Édouard Zier Aphrodite: mœurs antiques par Pierre Louÿs 1896 lithograph (book cover) private collection |
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| Henry van de Velde (designer) Bookbinding for the Liber Memorialis of Baron van Eetvelde 1897-98 dyed and inlaid leathers Bibliotheca Wittockiana, Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, Belgium |
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| Bernard Meninsky Girl with a Book 1924 oil on paper, mounted on board Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Julius Zimpel Die Hetaerenbriefe des Alkyphron 1924 lithograph (book cover) private collection |
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| Geoffrey Tibble The Big Book 1946 oil on canvas Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston-upon-Hull, East Yorkshire |
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| William George Gillies Still Life with Penguin Books ca. 1952 oil on canvas Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |
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| Trevor Winkfield Tortoise (opening from A Bestiary) 1990 linocut Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| Cornelius Völker Books 2008 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Colter Jacobsen The Boys' Book of Magnetism 2011 watercolor on paper San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
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| Stephen Tanis Plums, Book, Shell 2016 oil on canvas private collection |
from The Way through the Woods
They shut the road through the woods
Seventy years ago.
Weather and rain have undone it again,
And now you would never know
There was once a road through the woods
Before they planted the trees.
It is underneath the coppice and heath
And the thin anemones.
Only the keeper sees
That, where the ring-dove broods,
And the badgers roll at ease,
There was once a road through the woods.
– Rudyard Kipling (1910)