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Antonio de Bellis David with the Head of Goliath ca. 1642-43 oil on canvas San Diego Museum of Art |
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Braun, Clément & Cie. Pierre Puget's Statue of Milo of Croton ca. 1880 photogravure Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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Charles Courtney Curran Woman with Feathered Hat 1890 oil on panel (painted in Paris) New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut |
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Francis Dodd Portrait of sculptor Jacob Epstein 1909 drypoint British Museum |
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Thomas Eakins Mother (Annie Williams Gandy) ca. 1903 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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attributed to Charles Le Brun Prometheus before 1690 drawing British Museum |
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Rudolf Lehmann Portrait of Cardinal Manning 1890 drawing (colored chalks) British Museum |
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Robert Macpherson The Dying Gladiator, Capitoline Museum, Rome ca. 1858-63 albumen silver print National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
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Master FP St Bartholomew ca. 1530-50 etching (after lost Parmigianino drawing) British Museum |
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Livio Mehus Bound Isaac ca. 1660 drawing (study for painting) British Museum |
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Cesare Nebbia Suffer the Little Children to come unto Me ca. 1610 drawing British Museum |
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Matthias Stom Adoration of the Magi ca. 1640 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen |
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Rufino Tamayo Jeanne Moreau 1965 charcoal and crayon on paper (commissioned by Time magazine) National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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Gabriel Constant Vaucher Antique Head wreathed with Flowers ca. 1794 drawing Cabinet d'Arts Graphiques des Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève |
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Andrea del Verrocchio Study of a Woman before 1488 drawing Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford |
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Hans Wechtlin Memento Mori ca. 1510-12 chiaroscuro woodcut British Museum |
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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)