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Gillian Wearing Trauma 1 2001 R-type print NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida |
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Howard Rackliffe Self Portrait ca. 1978 acrylic on paper New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut |
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George Agnew Reid Portrait of Mary Hiester Reid ca. 1885 oil on canvas Museum London, Ontario |
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Kiki Smith Banshee Pearls 1991 lithograph Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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Jim Smeal Michael Milken 1990 C-print (commissioned by Time magazine) National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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Larry Sultan Portrait of My Father with Newspaper 1988 C-print Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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Peter VandenBerge Madame Matisse 1985 earthenware (partly glazed) Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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Jamie Wyeth Lincoln Kirstein 1 1965 oil on canvas National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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attributed to François Quesnel Portrait of Henri III, King of France ca. 1580 oil on panel Musée Carnavalet, Paris |
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Clifton Pugh Portrait of John Perceval 1985 oil on canvas Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
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Moses Soyer Julia Evergood 1962 oil on canvas Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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Enrico Prampolini Autoritratto Simultaneo ca. 1923 oil on canvas Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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Rodolphe Piguet Portrait of a Woman 1876 oil on canvas Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève |
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Nicolas Régnier Portrait of a Young Man ca. 1645-50 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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Henry Varnum Poor Self Portrait with Amaryllis ca. 1950 oil on linen Wichita Art Museum, Kansas |
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Frederick Sandys May Margaret 1865-66 oil on canvas Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington |
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Sanford Roth Portrait of painter Giorgio Morandi ca. 1947 gelatin silver print Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
An Allusion to Martial
As oft, Sir Tradewel, as we meet,
You're sure to ask me in the street,
When you shall send your Boy to me,
To fetch my Book of Poetry.
And promise you'l but read it o'er,
And faithfully the Loan restore:
But let me tell you as a Friend,
You need not take the pains to send:
'Tis a long way to where I dwell,
At farther end of Clarkenwel:
There in a garret near the Sky,
Above five pair of Stairs I lie.
But, if you'd have, what you pretend,
You may procure it nearer hand:
In Cornhil,where you often go,
Hard by th' Exchange, there is, you know,
A Shop of Rhime, where you may see
The Posts all clad in Poetry;
There Hindmarsh lives of high renown,
The noted'st TORY in the Town:
Where, if you please, enquire for me,
And he, or's Prentice, presently,
From the next Shelf will reach you down
The Piece well bound for half a Crown:
The Price is much too dear, you cry,
To give for both the Book, and me:
Yes doubtless, for such vanities,
We know, Sir, you are too too wise.