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| Adolph Menzel Weeping Man ca. 1850-60 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
Binsey Poplars
felled 1879
My aspens dear, whose airy cages quelled,
Quelled or quenched in leaves the leaping sun,
All felled, felled, are all felled;
Of a fresh and following folded rank
Not spared, not one
That dandled a sandalled
Shadow that swam or sank
On meadow and river and wind-wandering
weed-winding bank.
O if we but knew what we do
When we delve or hew –
Hack and rack the growing green!
Since country is so tender
To touch, her being so slender,
That, like this sleek and seeing ball
But a prick will make no eye at all,
Where we, even where we mean
To mend her we end her,
When we hew or delve:
After-comers cannot guess the beauty been.
Ten or twelve, only ten or twelve
Strokes of havoc unselve
The sweet especial scene,
Rural scene, a rural scene,
Sweet especial rural scene.
– Gerard Manley Hopkins
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| Pietro Fancelli Antique Head of Meleager before 1850 drawing Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Edward Burne-Jones Head of a Woman ca. 1873-77 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Edward Burne-Jones Head of a Woman, Draped ca. 1873-77 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Edward Burne-Jones Head of a Young Woman ca. 1873-77 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Edward Burne-Jones Heads of Medusa (studies for The Rondanini Medusa) ca. 1873-77 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Henri Fantin-Latour Self-Portrait 1857 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Gustave Courbet Model Reading in the Studio ca. 1849 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Paul Cézanne after Pierre Puget Hercules Resting (sculpture) 1897 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Edward Burne-Jones Figure Study (half-length) 1885 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Edward Burne-Jones Draped Male Figure ca. 1873-77 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Edward Burne-Jones Figure Study ca. 1873-77 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Edward Lear Cedars of Lebanon 1858 drawing, with watercolor Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Mauro Berti Design for Stage Set before 1842 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |