Friday, August 1, 2025

Raking (R)

Anders Zorn
Mary Hardin
ca. 1895
etching
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC


Hieronymus Wierix after Johannes Stradanus
Saxo
(series, Horses of the Emperor Charles V)
1578
engraving
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wulfenbüttel

Raffaello Vanni
Reclining Model
ca. 1628
drawing
British Museum

William Strang
Bather
1882
etching
British Museum

Frederick Sandys
Jacob hearing the Voice of the Lord
(print study for Dalziels Bible Gallery)
1865
drawing
British Museum

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Study of Antique Sculpture
1879
drawing
British Museum

James Pradier
Odalisque
1841
marble
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon

Ralph Moses
For that "Tired Feeling" -
Breathe Fresh Air, Avoid Drafts

ca. 1930
lithograph (poster)
Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam

Giuseppe Maria Mitelli
Iconoclast destroying Classical Statue
ca. 1678-80
engraving
British Museum

Alessandro Magnasco
Two Monks Running
before 1749
drawing
British Museum

Elaine Lustig Cohen
Futurist Photography
1990
lithograph (exhibition announcement)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Charles-Émile Jacque after Jusepe de Ribera
Liseur (effet de lumière)
1845
etching
British Museum

Franz Théobald Horny
Study of an Italian Woman
before 1824
drawing
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Werner Hopmann
Joseph Goebbels
1933
etching
(commissioned by Time magazine)
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Leendert van der Cooghen
Classical Warrior
1666
etching
British Museum

Jules Chevrier
A Drunken Bacchante
1864
etching
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Sigismondo Caula
Figure kneeling before Crucifix
ca. 1670
drawing
British Museum

Bordeaux mixture, of lime and copper sulphate, to kill fungus and insect parasites on plants
border (typ.), an ornament
bordereau (Fr. m.), a memorandum, docket
borderland (one word)
Borders, a region of Scotland
Boreas (Gr. myth.), god of the north wind
Borehamwood, Herts.
Borghese, Italian family
Borgia (Cesare), 1476-1507; – (Lucrezia), 1480-1519
born/, of child, with reference to birth, abbr. b.; -e, carried, also of birth when 'by' (with name of mother) follows
born/é (Fr.), fem. -ée, narrow-minded
Borodin (Alexander Porfiryevich), 1834-87, Russian composer and chemist
boron, symbol B
borough, abbr. bor.
Borstal, institution for reformative training (cap.)
bortsch, Russian soup
borzoi/, Russian wolfhound; pl. -s

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