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| Joachim Henne Miniature half-length portrait of unknown woman ca. 1666 ivory relief Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Jean Cavalier Miniature profile portrait of unknown woman ca. 1685-98 ivory relief Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| David Le Marchand Miniature profile portrait of David Melville, 3rd Earl of Leven and 2nd Earl of Melville ca. 1696-1700 ivory relief Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| David Le Marchand Miniature profile portrait of Mary Voyce ca. 1712 ivory relief Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| David Le Marchand Miniature profile portrait of Charles Marbury before 1726 ivory relief Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Gaspar van der Hagen Miniature portrait of Sir Isaac Newton ca. 1740-69 ivory relief Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Gaspar van der Hagen Miniature profile portrait of Alexander Pope ca. 1740-69 ivory relief Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Gaspar van der Hagen Miniature profile portrait of Inigo Jones ca. 1740-69 ivory relief Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Gaspar van der Hagen Miniature profile portrait of John Milton ca. 1740-69 ivory relief Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Gaspar van der Hagen Miniature profile portrait of King George II ca. 1740-69 ivory relief Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Anonymous sculptor working in England Miniature profile portrait of unknown woman ca. 1750 ivory relief mounted on wood Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Richard Cockle Lucas Miniature profile portrait of Julius Caesar ca. 1840-65 ivory relief Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Richard Cockle Lucas Miniature profile portrait of Alexander the Great ca. 1840-65 ivory relief Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Richard Cockle Lucas Miniature profile portrait of Jupiter ca. 1840-65 ivory relief Victoria & Albert Museum |
"How weirdly attractive are things thrown together at random: over there is somebody crossing a street, and the space surrounding him is solid; over there are a piano on the sidewalk and automobiles seated beneath their drivers. Pedestrians of unequal shape, matter of uneven temper, everything changes in accordance with the laws of disparity, and I stand agog at God's imagination, an imagination adjusted to minute and discordant variations, as if his chief venture were, on any given day, bringing together an orange and a string, a wall and a glance. It would appear that, to God, the world is merely a vehicle for several essays at still-life painting. He has a handful of gimmicks to which he invariably resorts: the absurd, the bizarre, the banal . . . there is no way of getting him to enlarge his scope."
– Louis Aragon, from Le Paysan de Paris (1924), translated as Nightwalker by Frederick Brown (1970)