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| Paul Musurus Artist standing by his easel ca. 1855-65 drawing British Museum |
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| Charles Daubigny Le bateau atelier (boat studio) 1861 etching, drypoint British Museum |
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| William Luson Thomas after Sir John Gilbert Peter Paul Rubens painting in his studio 1862 wood-engraving from Illustrated London News British Museum |
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| Harold John Stanley The village painter - Scene in the Tyrol 1865 wood-engraving British Museum |
This Room
The room I entered was a dream of this room.
Surely all those feet on the sofa were mine.
The oval portrait
of a dog was me at an early age.
Something shimmers, something is hushed up.
We had macaroni for lunch every day
except Sunday, when a small quail was induced
to be served to us. Why do I tell you these things?
You are not even here.
– John Ashbery (1999)
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| Winslow Homer Art students and copyists in the Louvre Gallery, Paris 1868 wood-engraving from Harper's Weekly British Museum |
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| Edmond Yon after Oreste Cortazzo La séance interrompue (The interrupted sitting) 1870 wood-engraving from L'Univers illustré British Museum |
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| Paul Renouard Painter Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan-Bouveret ca. 1870-95 lithograph British Museum |
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| Henry Linton after Lawrence Alma-Tadema The Picture (ancient Roman painter's studio) 1873 wood-engraving from Illustrated London News British Museum |
from The Portrait
This is her picture as she was:
It seems a thing to wonder on,
As though mine image in the glass
Should tarry when myself am gone.
I gaze until she seems to stir, –
Until mine eyes almost aver
That now, even now, the sweet lips part
To breathe the words of the sweet heart: –
And yet the earth is over her.
– Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1868)
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| William Unger Atelier W. Unger 1874 etching British Museum |
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| William Edward Frost Medieval artist in his studio before 1877 watercolor British Museum |
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| H. Klotz Frederick Leighton's studio ca. 1880-95 wood-engraving British Museum |
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| Joseph-Antoine Dujardin Painter at work (possibly Jean-Baptiste Greuze) 1882 etching British Museum |
from Canto XXXVI
He draweth likeness and hue from like nature
So making pleasure more certain in seeming
Nor can stand hid in such nearness,
Beautys be darts tho' not savage
Skilled from such fear a man follows
Deserving spirit, that pierceth.
Nor is he known from his face
But taken in the white light that is allness
Toucheth his aim
Who heareth, seeth not form
But is led by its emanation
Being divided, set out from colour,
Disjunct in mid darkness
Grazeth the light, one moving by other,
Being divided, divided from all falsity
Worthy of trust
From him alone mercy proceedeth.
– Ezra Pound (1934)
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| Clément Bellenger after Léon Lhermitte Printmaker François Liénard and his son in the studio 1882 wood-engraving British Museum |
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| Charles Roberts after Sir John Gilbert Painter at work in his studio 1882 wood-engraving from The Graphic British Museum |