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| Michael Ostendorfer Illustration from Astronomicum Caesareum (manual on the astrolabe, printed by Petrus Apianus in Ingolstadt) 1540 hand-colored woodcut Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| John Bowles & Son The Royal Palace of Kensington ca. 1755-60 hand-colored etching and engraving British Museum |
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| Carington Bowles after Francis Hayman The Good Man at the Hour of Death ca. 1766-84 hand-colored mezzotint British Museum |
For Your Pink Chips
That's a rose colored cloud
That hovers over a war bank
That is high backed up against a blue sky
That is stacked higher
And is being covered
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| Francesco Bartolozzi after Giovanni Battista Cipriani Terpsichore 1779 hand-colored etching British Museum |
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| Taunay (publisher) Représentation exacte du grand collier en brilliants (cause of the Affair of the Diamond Necklace of Marie Antoinette) 1785 hand-colored engraving British Museum |
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| Thomas Rowlandson after Henry Fuseli The Covent Garden Night-Mare (caricature of Charles James Fox) 1784 hand-colored etching and engraving Victoria & Albert Museum |
Toadstool
I don't know why I pursed my lips
That can have told the story of a ring of gold
I don't know why I swallowed a blacksnake once
Yet at the bottom of my heart that is being a toadstool
I don't know why I clung to a dark railing once
And wanted the eel for the dark railing
To have crawled to the mouth of the gold ringer
I don't why I held an eel at arm's length
And wanted its sinewy muscles to have crawled to a toad's strength
I don't know why the sea is boiling hot
That I looked over the dark railing
I don't know why I wanted a salt pond that is muddier
To have been full of thingamajigs that clung to snails
And asked more seaweed questions, and different kinds of things
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| Thomas Rowlandson The Syrens 1787 hand-colored etching and aquatint British Museum |
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| Gabriel Lory le père Two Women (in Swiss costume) ca. 1788-1810 hand-colored aquatint British Museum |
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| Anonymous Swiss printmaker View of the Staubbachfalls with a Rainbow ca. 1790-1800 hand-colored etching and aquatint British Museum |
Wells
What do you know of others
What do you know of their dreams
What do you know of water on the desert
What do you know of water everywhere
What do you know of a cloud in the sky
What do you know of the three rivers that run deeper
What do you know of the three rivers that have cast their shadows above ground
What do you know of those wandering eyes
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| James Gillray Captain Samuel Irwyn Townsend, 1st Grenadier Guards (one of the habitual promenaders in St James's Street) 1800 hand-colored etching British Museum |
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| Auguste Blanchard le père after Claude-Louis Desrais Mode du Jour - Le Suprême Bon Ton (fashion-plate) ca. 1801 hand-colored etching British Museum |
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| William Edward Frost Woman on a River Bank before 1877 hand-colored mezzotint British Museum |
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| Walter Crane Beach Scene with Classical Figures (with lines from Wordsworth's Intimations of Immortality) before 1915 hand-colored woodcut British Museum |
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| William Giles Sic transit gloria mundi ca. 1924 color woodcut with additional hand-coloring British Museum |
– poems are from A Dark Dreambox of Another Kind: the Poems of Alfred Starr Hamilton (Brooklyn : The Song Cave, 2013)