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| Edmund Evans after Walter Crane Cinderella departing for the Ball 1873 color-printed wood-engraving Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Edmund Evans after Walter Crane Desiree in her Palace 1876 color-printed wood-engraving Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Edmund Evans after Walter Crane Prince Guerrier wounds the Hind 1876 color-printed wood-engraving Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Edmund Evans after Walter Crane The Appearance of the Crab 1876 color-printed wood-engraving Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Edmund Evans after Walter Crane The Frog seemed to relish his Dinner much 1874 color-printed wood-engraving Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Edmund Evans after Walter Crane The Giant breaks his Neck 1875 color-printed wood-engraving Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| John Leech Dressing for the Ball in 1857 printed 1868 hand-colored lithograph Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| John Leech Fashions for 1844 printed 1868 hand-colored lithograph Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Samuel Rush Meyrick A Knight armed for the Bond 1842 hand-colored engraving Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Samuel Rush Meyrick Two Suits of Black Armour 1842 hand-colored engraving Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Ludwig Gruner after Michelangelo Sistine Ceiling 1852-53 chromolithograph British Museum |
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| Paul Iribe Military Revue at Vincennes honoring Alfonso XIII of Spain 1905 hand-colored wood-engraving Musée du Louvre |
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| Jennifer Dickson The Secret Garden Blinded Watcher 1974-75 hand-colored photo-etching Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Jennifer Dickson The Secret Garden The Fugitive Sleeps 1974-75 hand-colored photo-etching Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Robert Buhler Folly Garden 1988 photo-lithograph Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Anthony Whishaw Memory File 1997 hand-colored etching Royal Academy of Arts, London |
BROKEN COLUMN
Are
you
too
proud
to give
up what
you can
no longer
possess
Such an
embattled
final cause
as attempting
to support by
piling up stone
on baser stone a
high impediment
to windiness is
bound to be blown
down Down there an
airy will must get
serious as winds
that can no more
than whisper about an
unyielding wish still
do their bit as brick
falls to extractions as
carious rocky drums go
smash and unfilled chunks
of jagged marble mark out on
one side the direction that a
disaster may take Thrusting up
from springing green wide lawn
and clusterings of acanthus an
assertive spike of white comes
bearing no capital no unbroken
shaft The ruin of your highest
and most visionary part may be
a burden at your age not worth
maintaining Yet under the late
sunlight your cold shadow falls across
the meadow that has reassumed your shining
terraces across our own daughters tiny
and blonde playing in and out of light Why gaze at
blue beyond perhaps then green What further shores
and what ever-unbroken marble do you strain to see
– John Hollander (1966)