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| Joseph Highmore Mrs Elizabeth Birch and her daughter 1741 oil on canvas Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Joseph Highmore Portrait of a man 1745 oil on canvas Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| William Hogarth Frances Arnold ca. 1738-40 oil on canvas Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| William Hogarth George Arnold (father of Frances Arnold) ca. 1738-40 oil on canvas Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| William Hogarth Sarah Malcolm (died 1733) 1733 oil on canvas National Galleries of Scotland |
Sore Throat
Sick in bed with a sore throat,
I can't get out of my mind
the image of the cat
harpsichord from the eighteenth century
soothing a prince with laughter.
It worked like this: the tails of them attached
to the strings of the instrument
were pulled by different notes, and the difference
between the way the cats
cried was music.
A shadow is only a shape.
Which is why certain individuals
can put their hands in light
and make them birds, can say in shadow
what they can't in light.
The tiny branches of the hedge
in the yard that separates
my house from the next
look like the rib bones of a bird
when the sun hits lunch.
The world, they say, is best for a nest
but no good for a flying place.
Come back, I say to my dead,
and the branches don't even graze
the window, when I eat it hurts.
– Katie Peterson, from The Accounts (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
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| Jean-Étienne Liotard Miniature portrait of Laura Tarsi as Grecian lady ca. 1745-49 watercolor on ivory Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Francesco de Mura Portrait of Count James Joseph O'Mahoney Lieutenant-General in the Neapolitan Service, Knight of St Januarius ca. 1748 oil on canvas Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Francesco de Mura Wisdom, or, Nobility before 1782 oil on canvas Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Allan Ramsay Portrait of John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun ca. 1747 oil on canvas National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Allan Ramsay Portrait of Horace Walpole's nieces, the Honourable Laura Keppel and Charlotte, Lady Huntingtower 1765 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Joshua Reynolds The Braddyll Family 1789 oil on canvas Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Joshua Reynolds Mrs Angelo ca. 1760 oil on canvas Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Joshua Reynolds Lord Rockingham and Edmund Burke ca. 1766 oil on canvas (unfinished) Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Joseph Wright of Derby Mrs John Ashton ca. 1769-71 oil on canvas Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |