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| Matthaus Kern Study at St Polten 1837 watercolor Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Eduard Gaertner Study of Prince Karl of Prussia 1848 watercolor Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| James Roberts Study of King Louis-Philippe at Neuilly 1845 watercolor, gouache Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
A WINDOW
Among a hundred windows shining
dully in the vast side
of greater-than-palace number such-and-such
one burns
these several years, each night
as if the room within were aflame.
Some fault in the glass
combines with the precise distance and
my faulty eyes to produce
this illusion; I know it –
yet still I'm ready to believe perhaps
some lives
tremble and flare up there, four blocks away
across the sooty roofs and
the dusk,
with more intensity than what's lived
behind the other windows,
and the glowing of those brands of life
shows as seraphic or demonic flames
visible only to weak and distant eyes.
– Denise Levertov, from The Jacob's Ladder (Jonathan Cape, 1965)
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| Josef Sotira Study of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna 1835 watercolor, gouache Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Ernst Christian Anton von Lautzow Study of Grand Duchess Cecilia von Oldenberg 1839 watercolor, gouache Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous English artist Library ca. 1830-50 watercolor Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous English artists Library 1850s watercolor Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Arthur Frederick Payne Pynson Wilmot Bennitt's Room at Trinity College, Oxford 1857 watercolor, gouache Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Julius Eduard Wilhelm Helfft Music Room of Fanny Hensel née Mendelssohn 1849 watercolor Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| S. Tolstoi Man's Living Room ca. 1853 watercolor Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| C.M. Fredro Room in Reuss Palace, Dresden ca. 1835-37 watercolor, gouache Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Emanuel Stöckler Drawing Room of a Sportsman 1856 watercolor, gouache Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Mary Ellen Best Drawing Room ca. 1837-40 watercolor Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| C. Rath Blue Room 1877 watercolor, gouache Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |