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| Maitland Armstrong Memorial to Charles Frederick Crocker 1891 stained-glass window Episcopal Church of St-Mary-in-Tuxedo, Orange County, New York |
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| Maitland Armstrong Adoration of the Magi ca. 1905 stained-glass window Faith Chapel, Jekyll Island, Georgia |
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| Maitland Armstrong Purgatory Chasm ca. 1875 oil on canvas Newport Mansions Preservation Society, Rhode Island |
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| Anonymous Studio Photographer Maitland and Helen Armstrong in Renaissance Costume, Rome 1871 albumen silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Thomas Eakins Model in the Studio ca. 1889 platinum print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Thomas Eakins Students in Ancient Greek Dress at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts 1883 platinum print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Thomas Eakins Thomas Eakins and John Laurie Wallace at Waterside in Artistic Poses ca. 1883 platinum print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Thomas Eakins Thomas Eakins posing as Pipe Player ca. 1883 platinum print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Wolfgang Heimbach Return of the Holy Family from Egypt 1657 oil on canvas Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Oldenburg |
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| Wolfgang Heimbach Baptism of Christ 1679 oil on canvas Stadtmuseum, Coesfeld |
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| Wolfgang Heimbach Kitchen Interior 1648 oil on canvas Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg |
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| Wolfgang Heimbach Evening Meal 1647 oil on panel Kunsthalle zu Kiel |
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| Francesco Guardi Gateway of the Arsenal, Venice ca. 1780-90 drawing British Museum |
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| Francesco Guardi Regatta on the Grand Canal ca. 1770-75 drawing British Museum |
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| Francesco Guardi Santa Maria della Salute and the Dogana ca. 1783 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
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| Francesco Guardi Cannaregio Canal, Venice ca. 1775-80 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
Her bedroom was cold, being over the garage, with windows on three sides. Otherwise it was pleasant. Over the bed hung framed photographs of Greek skies and ruins, taken by Dr. Henshawe herself on her Mediterranean trip.
She was writing an essay on Yeats's plays. In one of the plays a young bride is lured away by the fairies from her sensible unbearable marriage.
"Come away, O human child . . ." Rose read, and her eyes filled up with tears for herself, as if she was that shy elusive virgin, too fine for the bewildered peasants who have entrapped her. In actual fact she was the peasant, shocking high-minded Patrick, but he did not look for escape.
She took down one of those Greek photographs and defaced the wallpaper, writing the start of a poem which had come to her while she ate chocolate bars in bed and the wind from Gibbons Park banged at the garage walls.
Heedless in my dark womb
I bear a madman's child . . .
She never wrote any more of it, and wondered sometimes if she had meant headless. She never tried to rub it out, either.
– Alice Munro, from The Beggar Maid (1978)