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| George Vertue The Green Dale Oak near Welbeck 1733 etching and engraving British Museum |
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| Achille-Etna Michallon Beech Tree ca. 1817 oil on canvas Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Henry Courtney Selous Penshurst Park 1830 watercolor Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Georges Michel Study of a Tree Trunk before 1843 watercolor Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Ferdinand von Rayski Wermsdorf Forest ca. 1859 oil on canvas Gemäldegalerie, Dresden |
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| Adolph Menzel Study of a Tree ca. 1885-90 drawing Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Achenbach Foundation) |
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| attributed to Frances Judd Catterlin Giant Redwood Tree ca. 1890-1900 albumen silver print Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Emily K. Herron Untitled before 1893 cyanotype Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| Anonymous British Artist Study of Tree 19th century drawing Yale Center for British Art |
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| E.H. Shepard Tree Trunk 1926-27 drawing (study for book illustration) Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Paul Strand Dead Tree, Vermont 1945 gelatin silver print Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Todd Webb Sycamore Tree, Amsterdam at 123rd Street, New York 1946 gelatin silver print Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
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| Robert Gene Wilcox Tree and Snow 1965 gelatin silver print Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Aaron Siskind Olive Tree, Corfu 1970 gelatin silver print Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Henry Moore Trees I - Bole and Creeper 1979 etching Tate Gallery |
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| Herbert Kunze Tree before 1981 drawing Gemäldegalerie, Dresden |
from The Trees are Down
– and he cried with a loud voice:
Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees –
(REVELATION)
They are cutting down the great plane-trees at the end of the gardens.
For days there has been the grate of the saw, the swish of the branches as they fall.
The crash of the trunks, the rustle of trodden leaves,
With the 'Whoops' and the 'Whoas,' the loud common talk,
the loud common laughs of the men, above it all.
– Charlotte Mew (1869-1928)