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Leopold Stolba Woman with Muff ca. 1885 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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Milton Glaser Gundel 1992 offset-lithograph (advertising poster) Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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Georges Seurat Figure in Barbizon Landscape ca. 1882 oil on panel (cigar box lid) Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne |
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Hieronymus Hopfer Portrait of Pope Julius II della Rovere before 1563 etching British Museum |
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Ercole de' Roberti Giovanni II Bentivoglio (tyrant of Bologna) ca. 1474-77 tempera on panel National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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Julian Ashton Spring (Miss Helen Willis) ca. 1889 oil on canvas National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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Friedrich Wilhelm Bollinger after Richard Westall Portrait of Byron ca. 1820 engraving Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel |
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William Henry Bradley The Chap-Book 1894 lithograph (poster) Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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Giulio Carpioni Study of Draped Woman before 1678 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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Kenyon Cox Cover Design for McClure's Magazine ca. 1898-99 drawing Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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Johann Christoph Erhard The artist Johann Adam Klein drawing ca. 1816-18 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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Renold Elstrack Cardinal Thomas Wolsey (died 1529) ca. 1616-21 engraving British Museum |
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Albrecht Dürer Portrait of Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg 1523 engraving Loeb Art Center, Vassar College Poughkeepsie, New York |
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Pier Leone Ghezzi Portrait of Don Giacomo Stuardo (false claimant to royal Stuart lineage) 1708 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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Augustin de Saint-Aubin Portrait of a Marquise 1779 engraving Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario |
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August Sander Emanuel Feuermann 1923 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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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.
netsuke/, 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)