Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Impersonal

Leopold Stolba
Woman with Muff
ca. 1885
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna


Milton Glaser
Gundel
1992
offset-lithograph (advertising poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Georges  Seurat
Figure in Barbizon Landscape
ca. 1882
oil on panel (cigar box lid)
Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne

Hieronymus Hopfer
Portrait of  Pope Julius II della Rovere
before 1563
etching
British Museum

Ercole de' Roberti
Giovanni II Bentivoglio (tyrant of Bologna)
ca. 1474-77
tempera on panel
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Julian Ashton
Spring (Miss Helen Willis)
ca. 1889
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Friedrich Wilhelm Bollinger after Richard Westall
Portrait of Byron
ca. 1820
engraving
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel

William Henry Bradley
The Chap-Book
1894
lithograph (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Giulio Carpioni
Study of Draped Woman
before 1678
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Kenyon Cox
Cover Design for McClure's Magazine
ca. 1898-99
drawing
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Johann Christoph Erhard
The artist Johann Adam Klein drawing
ca. 1816-18
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Renold Elstrack
Cardinal Thomas Wolsey (died 1529)
ca. 1616-21
engraving
British Museum

Albrecht Dürer
Portrait of Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg
1523
engraving
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, New York

Pier Leone Ghezzi
Portrait of Don Giacomo Stuardo
(false claimant to royal Stuart lineage)
1708
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Augustin de Saint-Aubin
Portrait of a Marquise
1779
engraving
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario

August Sander
Emanuel Feuermann
1923
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

John Gibson
Design for Figure of Sappho as Relief Sculpture
 before 1866
drawing
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

nerve gas (two words)
nerve-racking, not wr-
Nesbit (Evelyn), psued. of Mrs. Edith (Hubert) Bland, 1858-1924, English writer
Nesbit (Cathleen), 1890-1982, English actress
Nessler's reagent (chem.), from Julius Nessler, 1827-1905, German chemist
n'est-ce pas? (Fr.), is it not so?
Nestlé Co., Ltd. (The)
net/, not subject to deduction; – book, whose retail price is fixed by publisher; not nett
net/, -ted, -ting
net curtain
(two words)
Netherlands (The), country, not Holland; abbr. Neth.
n
etsuke/, Japanese ornament, pl. -s
nett,
not subject to deduction, use net
nettle-rash
(hyphen)
network (one word)
Neuchâtel, Switzerland, white or red wine from there
Neufchâtel, déps. Aisne and Seine-Maritime, France; a kind of cheese
Neuilly, dép. Seine, France
neume (mus.), (sign indicating) group of notes to be sung with one syllable, not neum
neuralgia, pain in a nerve (a symptom, not a disease)

The Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors, compiled by the Oxford English Dictionary Department of Oxford University Press (12th edition, 1981)