Saturday, August 2, 2025

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Antonio de Bellis
David with the Head of Goliath
ca. 1642-43
oil on canvas
San Diego Museum of Art


Braun, Clément & Cie.
Pierre Puget's Statue of Milo of Croton
ca. 1880
photogravure
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Charles Courtney Curran
Woman with Feathered Hat
1890
oil on panel (painted in Paris)
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut

Francis Dodd
Portrait of sculptor Jacob Epstein
1909
drypoint
British Museum

Thomas Eakins
Mother (Annie Williams Gandy)
ca. 1903
oil on canvas
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

attributed to Charles Le Brun
Prometheus
before 1690
drawing
British Museum

Rudolf Lehmann
Portrait of Cardinal Manning
1890
drawing (colored chalks)
British Museum

Robert Macpherson
The Dying Gladiator, Capitoline Museum, Rome
ca. 1858-63
albumen silver print
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Master FP
St Bartholomew
ca. 1530-50
etching
(after lost Parmigianino drawing)
British Museum

Livio Mehus
Bound Isaac
ca. 1660
drawing (study for painting)
British Museum

Cesare Nebbia
Suffer the Little Children to come unto Me
ca. 1610
drawing
British Museum

Matthias Stom
Adoration of the Magi
ca. 1640
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen

Rufino Tamayo
Jeanne Moreau
1965
charcoal and crayon on paper
(commissioned by Time magazine)
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Gabriel Constant Vaucher
Antique Head wreathed with Flowers
ca. 1794
drawing
Cabinet d'Arts Graphiques
des Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève

Andrea del Verrocchio
Study of a Woman
before 1488
drawing
Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford

Hans Wechtlin
Memento Mori
ca. 1510-12
chiaroscuro woodcut
British Museum

Richard Westall
Lantern-Bearer illuminating Group of Figures
before 1836
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

licence (noun), a permit; (US -se)
licens/e (verb), to authorize; -ee, -er, -ing
licensed victualler
licentiate, abbr. L.
licet (Lat.), legal; it is allowed
lichee, use litchi
lichen, epiphytic veg. growth
Lichfield, Staffs. See also Litch-
Lichfield:, sig. of Bp. of Lichfield (colon)
lich-gate, roofed gateway of churchyard, not lych-
lichi, use litchi
lickerish, desirous, greedy. See also liquorice
Lick Observatory, California
licorice, use liquor-
Liddell (Henry George), 1818-98, English lexicographer, father of the original of Alice in Wonderland
lido/, open-air swimming-pool, pl. -s

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