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| Benjamin West Jocosa Katerina Drury, Lady Cust with her niece Lady Caroline Hobar ca. 1770 oil on canvas National Trust, Belton House, Lincolnshire |
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| Nathaniel Dance-Holland Portrait of Margaret Maskelyne, Lady Clive ca. 1770-74 oil on canvas National Trust, Powis Castle, Wales |
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| George Romney Portrait of Richard Cumberland ca. 1771-76 oil on canvas National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| Francis Wheatley Scene from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night ca. 1771-72 oil on canvas Manchester Art Gallery |
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| Nicolas-Bernard Lépicié Narcisse changé en fleur 1771 oil on canvas Château de Versailles |
from Narcissus
The mind is a city like London,
Smoky and populous: it is a capital
Like Rome, ruined and eternal,
Marked by the monuments which no one
Now remembers. For the mind, like Rome, contains
Catacombs, aqueducts, amphitheatres, palaces,
Churches and equestrian statues, fallen, broken or soiled.
The mind possesses and is possessed by all the ruins
Of every haunted, hunted generation's celebration.
* * *
Dusk we are, to dusk returning, after the burbing,
After the gold fall, the fallen ash, the bronze,
Scattered and rotten, after the white null statues which
Are winter, sleep, and nothingness . . .
* * *
They thought I had fallen in love with my own face,
And this belief became the night-like obstacle
To understanding all my unbroken suffering,
My studious self-regard, the pain of hope,
The torment of possibility:
How then could I have expected them to see me
As I saw myself, within my gaze, or see
That being thus seemed as a toad, a frog, a wen, a mole.
Knowing their certainty that I was only
A monument, a monster who had fallen in love
With himself alone, how could I have
Told them what was in me, within my heart, trembling and passionate
Within the labyrinth and caves of my mind, which is
Like every mind partly or wholly hidden from itself?
– Delmore Schwartz (1959)
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| Johann Wyrsch The Right Honourable Reginald Pole-Carew 1773 oil on canvas National Trust, Antony House, Cornwall |
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| Jacobus Buys The French Lesson Interrupted 1774 oil on panel National Trust, Tatton Park, Cheshire |
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| Robert Edge Pine Portrait of historian Catherine Macaulay (in the guise of a Roman matron) ca. 1775 oil on canvas National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| Alessandro Longhi Portrait of an Austrian Prince ca. 1775 oil on canvas Guildhall Art Gallery, London |
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| Thomas Gainsborough Portrait of Lady Brisco ca. 1776 oil on canvas Kenwood House, London |
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| Jean-Honoré Fragonard The Souvenir ca. 1776-78 oil on panel Wallace Collection, London |
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| Richard Brompton Portrait of John Horne Tooke 1777 oil on canvas Manchester Art Gallery |
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| Joseph Wright of Derby Portrait of a Gentleman ca. 1777-80 oil on canvas Manchester Art Gallery |
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| John Singleton Copley Portrait of Mrs Robert Hyde 1778 oil on canvas Yale Center for British Art |
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| Joshua Reynolds Self Portrait ca. 1778-80 oil on canvas National Trust, Knole, Kent |