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Ancient Greek Culture
Trihemiobol with Lion
480-450 BC
silver
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Tennessee

Luis García Hevia
Portrait of Manuel Rodríguez Torices
1837
oil on canvas
private collection

Luis García Hevia
Woman with Earring
ca. 1850
oil on canvas
Denver Art Museum

Kenneth Forbes
The Earring
1924
oil on canvas
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

Kenneth Forbes
The Yellow Scarf
1924
oil on canvas
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

Erling Eckersberg
Mercury sculpted by Bertel Thorvaldsen
1824
drawing
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

Erling Eckersberg
Shepherd Boy sculpted by Bertel Thorvaldsen
1824
drawing
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

E. Charlton Fortune
Feeding Chickens, Monterey
1918
oil on canvas
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California

E. Charlton Fortune
Wine Cargoes
1925
oil on canvas
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California

Miguel Esteve
Holy Family
ca. 1515-20
oil on panel
Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia

Miguel Esteve
St Michael Archangel
ca. 1515-20
oil on panel
Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia

Anonymou German Glassblower
Biconical Bottle
ca. 1400-1450
glass
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Anonymou German Glassblower
Biconical Bottle
ca. 1450-1500
glass
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Anonymous French Fan-maker
Chinoiserie Scenes
(after a print by Jean-Baptiste Pillement)
ca. 1750-80
ink on chicken skin, with mother-of-pearl sticks
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Etruscan Culture
Cinerary Urn
2nd century BC
terracotta
Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève

Ancient Egyptian Culture
Hand Mirror
1550-1295 BC
copper alloy
Art Institute of Chicago

I'm afraid there's many a spectacled sod

Prefers the British Museum to God.

– W.H. Auden (ca. 1930)