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| Master S. (Netherlandish printmaker) Study of Seductive Women ca. 1515-45 engraving British Museum |
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| Lambert Lombard Christ and the Woman of Samaria ca. 1550 drawing British Museum |
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| Daniel Lindtmayer Tobias and the Angel 1575 drawing British Museum |
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| Pieter Lastman Manoah and his wife with the Angel (parents of Samson receiving Divine instruction) 1617 oil on panel Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario |
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| Jacob Jordaens St Ivo, or, Rich Man giving Alms ca. 1630-40 watercolor and gouache on paper (modello for tapestry) British Museum |
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| Marten Mandekens The Visitation ca. 1640 oil on panel Galleria Borghese, Rome |
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| Pier Francesco Mola Roman art patron Niccolò Simonelli with Pier Francesco Mola ca. 1649 drawing British Museum |
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| John Hamilton Mortimer Sheet of Studies ca. 1760-70 drawing British Museum |
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| Andries Cornelis Lens Annunciation ca. 1790 oil on canvas Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp |
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| Johann Heinrich Lips Three Characters in Conversation ca. 1797 drawing British Museum |
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| Monogrammist H.H.R. (British printmaker) The Royal Crab & the Ex-Prime Lobster: Reproof and Retort (satire against William IV for dismissing the Duke of Wellington) 1830 hand-colored etching British Museum |
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| Eugène-Louis Lami Evening Chats (series, La Vie de Château) 1832 hand-colored lithograph British Museum |
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| Jean-François Millet The Road to Emmaus before 1875 drawing- British Museum |
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| Elizabeth Olds Concert ca. 1939 screenprint Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Joseph Hirsch The Senator 1941 oil on canvas Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Martin Lewis At the Wall 1949 etching and aquatint Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Helen Lessore Symposium I (London Artists) 1974-77 oil on canvas Tate Modern, London |
from A Letter to a Friend upon the Occasion of the Death of his Intimate Friend
Besides his soft Death, the incurable state of his Disease might somewhat extenuate your Sorrow, who know that Monsters but seldom happen, Miracles more rarely in Physick. Angelus Victorius gives a serious Account of a Consumptive, Hectical, Pthysical Woman, who was suddenly cured by the Intercession of Ignatius. We read not of any in Scripture who in this case applied unto our Saviour, tho some may be contained in that large Expression, That he went about Galilee healing all manner of Sickness, and all manner of Diseases. Amulets, Spells, Sigils and Incantations, practised in other Diseases, are seldom pretended in this; and we find no Sigil in the Archidoxis of Paracelsus to cure an extreme Consumption or Marasmus, which if other Diseases fail, will put a period unto long Livers, and at last make dust of all. And therefore the Stoicks could not but think that the firy Principle would wear out all the rest, and at last make an end of the World, which notwithstanding without such a lingring period the Creator may effect at his Pleasure: and to make an end of all things on Earth, and our Planetical System of the World, he need but put out the Sun.
– Sir Thomas Browne (1656)