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| William Dyce Praying Hands before 1864 drawing Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Margaret E. Wilson Cast of a Hand ca. 1912 drawing Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Edmund Thomas Parris Model with Hands on Head ca. 1850 drawing Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| George Frederic Watts Model with Raised Arm ca. 1853 drawing Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Edward Poynter Sheet of Studies for fresco Martyrdom of St Stephen 1872 drawing Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Edward Poynter Sheet of Studies for fresco Martyrdom of St Stephen 1872 drawing Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Edward Poynter Sheet of Studies for fresco Martyrdom of St Stephen 1872 drawing Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Simon Vouet Studies of Neck and Head for the sleeping Rinaldo before 1649 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Simon Vouet Studies for Divine Female Figure in Clouds before 1649 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| George Frederic Watts Studies of a Model ca. 1880 drawing Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| John Flaxman Study of the Muscles of the Upper Leg ca. 1780-90 drawing Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| John Gibson Study of Leg before 1866 drawing Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Thomas Landseer Anatomical Studies of Leg 1814 drawing Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Benjamin Robert Haydon Study of Midriff ca. 1810 drawing Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Thomas Stothard Standing Model Half-Length ca. 1800 drawing, with watercolor Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Jacobus Schijnvoet Torso of Skeleton before 1733 drawing Royal Academy of Arts, London |
from My Skeleton, My Rival
A machine called skeleton will take my place
in the minds of others when I am dead
among the living, and that machine
will make it obvious that I have died
to be identified by bones
that have no speech, no thought, no mind
to speak of having let themselves be carried
once around in me, as at my service
at the podium or as I lay beside my love
or when I held my child at birth
or embraced a friend or shook a critic's hand
or held a pen to sign a check or book
or wrote a farewell letter to a love
or held my penis at the bowl
or lay my hand upon my face at the mirror
and approved of it.
– David Ignatow (1983)