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| Henry Fuseli Angel Dancing with Female Figure ca. 1777 drawing British Museum |
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| Henry Fuseli The Artist moved by the Grandeur of Antique Fragments (Colossus of Constantine, Rome) 1778-79 drawing Kunsthaus, Zürich |
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| Thomas Gainsborough Path through a Wood ca. 1750-60 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Thomas Gainsborough Study of a Lady ca. 1785 drawing private collection |
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| Sebastiano Galeotti Mercury in Clouds 1741 drawing Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Jean-Honoré Fragonard after Caravaggio Supper at Emmaus ca. 1760-61 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Jean-Honoré Fragonard Fête Galante in an Ancient Park (detail) ca. 1760-70 drawing Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt |
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| Frans Xaver Wagenschön Daedalus forming the wings of Icarus before 1790 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| John Hamilton Mortimer Apollo embracing Bust of dramatist John Gay (design for frontispiece to Bell's British Theatre) 1777 drawing Tate Britain |
To an Unrepentant Plagiarist
I acknowledge and regret that I used passages from your book.
Alexander Theroux, in a letter to Gail Levin
Alexander Theroux: How do you do it?
Pilfer, that is, then bull your way through it –
Unblushing, seeming even to enjoy
Your infamy as literature's bad boy.
Don't any of the sneers get through to you? It
Must act, in fact, as a drug. You have to do it,
Helplessly recidivist. You may rue it
Even as the camera catches coy
Alexander Theroux
With his hand in the till again. But you do it.
The impulse controls you; you cannot subdue it.
Well, here's new pleasure that cannot cloy:
A confessional poem! Just sign your name to it:
Alexander Theroux.
– Tom Disch (1997)
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| John Hamilton Mortimer The Prisoner ca. 1770 drawing Tate Britain |
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| John Hamilton Mortimer Monstrous Male Figure, possibly Caliban before 1779 drawing Tate Britain |
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| John Hamilton Mortimer Study of a Cast of the Bacchus of Sansovino before 1779 drawing Tate Britain |
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| Jean-Antoine Watteau after Peter Paul Rubens Venus, Bacchus and Ariadne (from Marie de Medici Cycle in the Louvre) before 1721 drawing British Museum |
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| Jean-Antoine Watteau after Anthony van Dyck Copy of van Dyck Self Portrait ca. 1715-20 drawing private collection |
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| Jean-Antoine Watteau Study of Seated Woman before 1721 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |