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| Cornelis Bloemaert after Hendrick Bloemaert Owl ca. 1625 engraving Centraal Museum, Utrecht |
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| Albert Flamen The Kingfisher (illustration for Book of Birds) ca. 1655-60 etching Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Anonymous Artist working in India Peacock with Woman's Head 18th century gouache on paper San Diego Museum of Art |
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| Johann Georg de Hamilton Partridges in Schönbrunn Palace Park 1732 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Sarah Stone Eastern Rosella of New South Wales ca. 1790 watercolor and ink on paper National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| John James Audubon Columbia Jay 1830 hand-colored engraving and aquatint Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina |
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| Robert Havell after John James Audubon Frigate Pelican 1835 hand-colored engraving and aquatint Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Anonymous Chinese Makers Rank Badge ca. 1850 silk embroidery on silk Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous Printmaker America's Tribute to Britain 1917 lithograph (poster) National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
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| Paul Manship and Angelo Colombo Concave Casqued Hornbill 1932 gilt bronze on lapis lazuli base Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Joseph Cornell Cockatoo: Keepsake Parakeet 1949-53 wood, wire mesh, printed paper, found objects Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Graham Sutherland Bird 1955 ink, charcoal and gouache on paper Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick |
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| Seymour Chwast March for Peace and Justice 1982 lithograph (poster) Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Kiki Smith Head with Bird (Side) 1994 phosphorous and white bronze Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Walton Ford Compromised 2003 etching, aquatint and drypoint Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Ann Craven Yello Fello 1 2004 oil on canvas Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Elad Lassry Chilean Flamingo 2007 C-print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
Epigram on Doricha
So now the very bones of you are gone
Where they were dust and ashes long ago;
And there was the last ribbon you tied on
To bind your hair, and that is dust also;
And somewhere there is dust that was of old
A soft and scented garment that you wore –
The same that once till dawn did closely fold
You in with fair Charaxus, fair no more.
But Sappho, and the white leaves of her song,
Will make your name a word for all to learn,
And all to love thereafter, even while
It's but a name; and this will be as long
As there are distant ships that will return
Again to Naucratis and to the Nile.
– Posidippus (born 310 BC), translated by Edwin Arlington Robinson (1915)