Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Side Views

Nickolas Muray
Eva Le Gallienne
ca. 1925
gelatin silver print
National Museum of American History, Washington DC


Ubaldo Gandolfi
Young Man Writing
ca. 1760
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Václav Brožík
Study of a Woman
ca. 1890
oil on canvas
Newport Mansions Preservation Society, Rhode Island

Bernardino de' Conti
Charles d'Amboise, governor of the Duchy of Milan
ca. 1505
oil on panel
Seattle Art Museum

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Fanny Cornforth
1860
drawing
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Gertrude Käsebier
Two Bulls
(Dakota Sioux performing with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show)
ca. 1898
platinum print
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

John La Farge
Coin Design
1859
drawing
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Paolo Fidanza after Titian
Portrait of Lucrezia Borgia
ca. 1757-64
etching
British Museum

Philippe Halsman
Barbra Streisand
1965
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Christian Krohg
Portrait of Oda Krohg
1888
oil on canvas
Skagens Museum, Denmark

Peder Severin Krøyer
Portrait of Marie Krøyer
1891
oil on canvas
Skagens Museum, Denmark

Hans Gasser
Study for Medallion Portrait of a Woman
ca. 1850
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Joseph Hirsch
Banquet
1946
lithograph
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

Melchior Lorck
Portrait of Albrecht Dürer
1550
engraving
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Clarence Kennedy
Portrait Bust of a Woman
by Desiderio da Settignano

ca. 1928
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Peter Paul Rubens
Head of Alexander the Great after an Antique Coin
before 1640
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

Gregorio di Lorenzo (Master of the Marble Madonnas)
Young St John the Baptist
ca. 1470-1500
marble
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

grauwacke, use grey-
gravamen/, chief ground of complaint; pl. -s
grave (mus.), slow, solemn
grave accent (`)
gravel/, cover with gravel, puzzle; -led, -ling
Graves, a Bordeaux white wine
Graves' disease, exophthalmic goitre (apos.)
grave/stone, -yard (one word) 
gravitas (Lat.), solemn demeanour
gravure (typ.), intaglio printing process (from photogravure)
gray, colour, use grey
gray, unit of absorbed radiation dose; abbr. Gy (no point); in SI units 1J/kg
Gray (Asa), 1810-88, US botanist; – (Louis Harold), 1905-65, English radiobiologist; – (Thomas), 1716-71, English poet. See also Grey
grayling, a fish, not grey-
Gray's Inn, London
graywacke, use grey-

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