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| Niclas Lafrensen Miniature portrait of Carl Erik Wadenstierna before 1787 watercolor on ivory Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |
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| attributed to Lié Louis Périn-Salbreux Miniature portrait of artist Alexander Roslin ca. 1780 watercolor on ivory Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |
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| Samuel Shelley Miniature portrait of unknown child 1782 watercolor on ivory Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |
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| William Grimaldi Miniature portrait of Sir Harbord Harbord, 1st Baron Suffield ca. 1780-90 watercolor on ivory Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |
Enlightenment
I wish we could take a statistic with more grace, beloved
I wish it would circle out in our minds to the very brim,
And we could be illumined by data one by one, as by candles,
As by the cheerful faces of cherubim.
But see, we respond only to archangelic doctrine,
Look up and glow at the actual pronouncement of grace,
Swallow at once all the high powered radiance,
And let the commandments shine upon the face.
This is a tremendous lot of revelation we gather,
Beloved, and beam at it in the proper spirit,
Nevertheless, I wish we had one or two facts to go by,
And a less arc-lighted kingdom to inherit.
– Josephine Miles (1939)
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| Jacques-Antoine-Marie Lemoine Miniature portrait of the artist's wife, Agathe-Françoise Bonvallet 1793 watercolor on ivory Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |
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| Jacob Axel Gillberg Miniature portrait of unknown man ca. 1795 watercolor on ivory Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |
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| Charles-Joseph de La Celle Miniature portrait of Sophie Piper 1799 gouache on ivory Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |
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| Pierre-Louis Bouvier Miniature Self-portrait 1791 watercolor on ivory Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |
from The French Revolution as it appeared to Enthusiasts at its Commencement
Oh! pleasant exercise of hope and joy!
For mighty were the auxiliars which then stood
Upon our side, we who were strong in love!
Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,
But to be young was very heaven! – Oh! times,
In which the meagre, stale, forbidding ways
Of custom, law, and statute, took at once
The attraction of a country in romance!
When Reason seemed the most to assert her rights,
When most intent on making of herself
A prime Enchantress – to assist the work
Which then was going forward in her name!
– William Wordsworth, published in The Prelude (1809)
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| Andreas Thornborg Miniature of Juliane Marie of Braunschweiz-Wolfenbüttel Queen of Denmark and Norway ca. 1780 watercolor on ivory Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |
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| Anonymous artist Miniature portrait of artist Jean-Baptiste Greuze ca. 1785 watercolor on ivory Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |
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| François Dumont Cabinet miniature of chemist Antoine François, Comte de Fourcroy before 1809 watercolor on ivory Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |
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| Nicolas-Jean Otthenin Miniature portrait of Marie-Victoire Jaquotot before 1817 watercolor on ivory Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |
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| Giovanni Domenico Bossi Miniature portrait of unknown man 1799 watercolor on ivory Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |
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| Richard Cosway Eye Miniature 1787 watercolor on ivory Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |