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| Joseph Edgar Boehm Study of uniform coat belonging to John, 11th Earl of Westmorland ca. 1860 oil on panel Yale Center for British Art |
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| Harold Gilman Mrs Mounter at the Breakfast Table 1916 oil on canvas Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| William Dobson Portrait of Charles II as Prince of Wales, with page 1642 oil on canvas National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh |
Don't put up my Thread & Needle –
I'll begin to Sew
When the Birds begin to whistle –
Better stitches – so –
These were bent – my sight got crooked –
When my mind – is plain
I'll do seams – a Queen's endeavor
Would not blush to own –
Hems – too fine for Lady's tracing
To the sightless knot –
Tucks – of dainty interspersion –
Like a dotted Dot –
Leave my Needle in the furrow –
Where I put it down –
I can make the zigzag stitches
Straight – when I am strong –
Till then – dreaming I am sewing
Fetch the seam I missed –
Closer – so I – at my sleeping –
Still surmise I stitch –
– Emily Dickinson, a poem composed in 1863 (the most productive year of the poet's life, in terms of surviving poems – there are 295 attributed to this one year)
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| Gaudenzio Ferrari Christ rising from the Tomb before 1546 oil on panel National Gallery, London |
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| Albert Joseph Moore Sapphires 1877 oil on canvas Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery |
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| Mark Gertler The apple-woman and her husband 1912 oil on canvas National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
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| Allan Ramsay King George III in coronation robes ca. 1765 oil on canvas Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide |
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| Auguste Renoir Girl reading ca. 1885-95 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
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| Luca Giordano St Michael, Archangel ca. 1663 oil on canvas Gemäldegalerie, Berlin |
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| Egon Schiele Moa 1911 drawing and pigment Leopold Museum, Vienna |
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| Lucas van Leyden Potiphar's Wife displays Joseph's garment 1512 oil on panel Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Jean-Étienne Liotard Frankish woman and her servant 1750 oil on canvas Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City |
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| John Everett Millais Ducklings 1889 oil on canvas National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo |
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| Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Portrait of Madame Moitessier 1851 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |