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Abel Faivre
"Alright then – since I'm not smoking,
you have nothing to complain about."
1898
lithograph (magazine cover)
Universitätsbibliothek, Heidelberg

Christa von Wahl
R. v. Oettingen - Perser Teppiche
ca. 1912
lithograph
(poster for dealer in Persian carpets)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Alfonso Iannelli
Alice Lloyd - England's Daintiest
and Most Popular Comedienne
ca. 1915
gouache on board
(print study for poster)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Roger Fry
Omega Workshops Ltd.
1918
lithograph (poster)
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Fred Biesel
Society of Independent Artists
5th Annual Exhibition
1921
linocut (poster)
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington

Eric Gill
Sonnets and Verses by Enid Clay
1925
wood-engraving and letterpress
(pamphlet cover)
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Otakar Mrkvicki
On Protochny Lane
1927
lithograph
(cover of novel by Ilya Ehrenburg)
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Anonymous Australia Designer
Sydney Harbour Bridge - Souvenir Letterette
ca. 1932
lithograph
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Henry Koerner
United We Are Strong
1943
lithograph (poster)
National Museum of American History,
Washington DC

Esther Bubley
Passengers at Greyhound Terminal, New York City
1947
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Anonymous Canadian Designer
Dennison New Photo Corners
ca. 1950
offset-print (retail packaging)
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

Andreas Feininger
Untitled
1953
gelatin silver print
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Antonio Frasconi
Uruguay at the 34th Venice Biennale
1968
screenprint (poster)
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario

Don Peterson
Toronto
1968
photo-lithograph
(hitch-hikers escaping Vietnam War conscription)
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Patty Carroll
The Pillow Talk
ca. 1980
C-print
Art Institute of Chicago

Barbara Kruger
Untitled (Pledge)
1988
screenprint on vinyl
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Karen Hackenberg
Arctic Thirst
2014
gouache on paper
private collection

from The Thirteenth Satyr of Juvenal, Imitated

 

    Little do folks the heav'nly Powers mind,

If they but scape the knowledge of Mankind:
Observe, with how demure, and grave a look

The Rascal lays his hand upon the Book:

Then with a praying face, and lifted Eye

Claps on his Lips, and Seals the Perjury;

If you persist his Innocence to doubt,

And boggle in Belief; he'l strait rap out

Oaths by the volley, each of which would make

Pale Atheists start, and trembling Bullies quake;

And more than would a whole Ships crew maintain

To the East-Indies hence, and back again.

As God shall pardon me, Sir I am free

Of what you charge me with: may these hands rot,

These eyes drop out; if I e're had a Groat

Of yours, or if they ever touch'd, or saw't.

Thus he'l run on two hours in length, till he

Spin out a Curse long as the Litany:

Till Heav'n has scarce a Judgment left in store

For him to wish, deserve, or suffer more.

    There are, who disavow all Providence,

And think the world is only steer'd by chance:

Make God at best an idle looker on,

A lazy Monarch lolling in his Throne;

Who his Affairs does neither mind, or know,

But leaves them all at random here below:

And such at every foot themselves will damn,

And Oaths no more than common Breath esteem:

No shame, nor loss of Ears can frighten these,

Were every Street a Grove of Pillories. 

– Juvenal (AD 50-127), adapted and translated by John Oldham (1683)