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| Leonhard Beck Title-Page to Portae Lucis (translation from Hebrew to Latin) 1516 woodcut and letterpress British Museum |
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| Christoph Amberger Bookplate for the city of Augsburg 1546 hand-colored woodcut British Museum |
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| Francesco Brizio Putti and Mermen supporting Shield ca. 1613 drawing (print study for title-page) British Museum |
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| Alexandre Betou after Francesco Primaticcio Figure supporting Garland (Galerie des peintures qui sont dans la salle du bal à Fontainebleau) ca. 1640-50 etching British Museum |
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| Gianlorenzo Bernini Design for Medallion commemorating the installation of the Cathedra Petri in St Peter's Basilica, Rome 1662 drawing British Museum |
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| Matteo Borboni Catafalque of painter Elisabetta Sirani 1665 drawing Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Benigno Bossi after Ennemond-Alexandre Petitot Design for Vase supported by Satyrs 1764 etching Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anton August Beck Prudentia 1771 etching and engraving Herzog August Bibliothek, Wulfenbüttel |
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| Giuseppe Barberi Designs for Metal Frames for Purses ca. 1780 drawing Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Giuseppe Barberi Design for Dado ca. 1785 drawing Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous German Artist Costumes of the Prussian Army 1797 watercolor and gouache on paper British Museum |
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| Giuseppe Barberi Design for Inkstand for Eugène de Beauharnais, Viceroy of Italy ca. 1810 drawing Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Michele Bisi after Andrea Appiani Fasti di Napoleone ca. 1816 engraving (one of a series after fresco cycle in Milan glorifying Napoleonic rule) British Museum |
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| Vanessa Bell Still Life on Corner of a Mantelpiece 1914 oil on canvas Tate Britain |
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| Jean Bellette Still Life with Wooden Bowl ca. 1954 oil on panel Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
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| Howard Bond Chapel Ceiling - Gloucester, England 1982 gelatin silver print Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Robert Beck Screen Memory (Sister's Room) 2004 gelatin silver print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
Sonnet
Of this fair volume which we world do name,
If we the sheets and leaves could turn with care,
Of him who it corrects, and did it frame,
We clear might read the art and wisdom rare:
Find out his power which wildest powers doth tame,
His providence extending everywhere,
His justice, which proud rebels doth not spare,
In every page, no, period of the same:
But silly we, like foolish children, rest
Well pleased with coloured vellum, leaves of gold,
Fair dangling ribbons; leaving what is best,
On the great writer's sense ne'er taking hold:
Or if by chance our minds do muse on aught,
It is some picture on the margin wrought.
– William Drummond of Hawthornden (1623)