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| Cornelis Galle the Elder after Johannes Stradanus Prophet Malachi ca. 1633 engraving British Museum |
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| Cornelis Galle the Elder after Peter Paul Rubens Samson and the Lion (frontispiece to Poems by Urban VIII Barberini) ca. 1634 engraving British Museum |
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| Cornelis de Wael Puppet Show in Rome before 1667 etching Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Adriaen van Stalbemt Landscape with Castle before 1662 etching Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Adriaen van Stalbemt Landscape with Ruined Abbey before 1662 etching Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Adriaen van Stalbemt Landscape with Watermill before 1662 etching Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Jan van Troyen after David Teniers the Younger Christ among the Doctors before 1670 engraving Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Jan van Troyen after Pordenone The Raising of Lazarus ca. 1656-60 etching and engraving Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Jan van Troyen after Michiel Sweerts Iesus Admirabilis (Young Christ) before 1670 engraving Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Jan van Troyen after Michiel Sweerts Mater Amabilis (the Virgin) before 1670 engraving Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Cornelis Vermeulen after Adriaen van der Werff Elizabeth I, Queen of England 1697 engraving Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Cornelis Vermeulen after Louis de Boullogne the Younger Monument to Louis XIV 1685 engraving Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Cornelis Vermeulen after Anthony van Dyck Maria Louise von Thurn und Taxis before 1709 engraving Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Cornelis Vermeulen after Guido Reni Erigone ca. 1700 etching and engraving Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Cornelis Vermeulen after Peter Paul Rubens Marie de' Medici fleeing the City of Blois 1710 hand-colored etching and engraving Royal Academy of Arts, London |
Le Médecin Malgré Lui
Oh I suppose I should
Wash the walls of my office,
Polish the rust from
My instruments and keep them
Definitely in order;
Build shelves in
The little laboratory;
Empty out the old stains,
Clean the bottles
And refill them; buy
Another lens; put
My journals on edge instead of
Letting them lie flat
In heaps – then begin
Ten years back and
Gradually
Read them to date,
Cataloguing important
Articles for ready reference.
I suppose I should
Read the new books.
If to this I added
A bill at the tailor's
And the cleaner's
And grew a decent beard
And cultivated a look
Of importance –
Who can tell? I might be
A credit to my Lady Happiness
And never think anything
But a white thought!
– William Carlos Williams (1918)