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| Meissen Manufactory (Dresden) Flowers ca. 1800 porcelain Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Hermann Carl Eduard Biewend Helene with her friend Emilie Fromke in the Garden 1846 daguerreotype National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
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| Chabrol Portrait of artists and brothers Paul and Hippolyte Flandrin ca. 1848-49 daguerreotype Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| James S. Baillie Which of us will you marry? 1849 hand-colored lithograph National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
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| Anonymous Photographer Scene at the Opera (New York) ca. 1860-65 collodion prints (stereograph) Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Jeremiah Gurney Clara Louise Kellogg ca. 1863 albumen prints (stereocard) Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Auguste Renoir Acrobats at Cirque Fernando 1879 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Anonymous Photographer Bicycle Boys ca. 1890 tintype National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
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| Childe Hassam In the Sunlight 1897 oil on canvas Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| Henri Matisse Two Women 1907-1908 bronze Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| George Hoyningen Huene Bathing Suits by Izod 1930 gelatin silver print Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Lomonosov Porcelain Factory (Leningrad) Naval Cadets 1949 porcelain Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Rimma Zanevskaya Zwei Sonnen 1963 screenprint Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| Nancy Grossman Paper Collage #25 1963 collage, ink and varnish on board Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| Jan Forsberg Happy People 1965 color etching and aquatint Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Larry Rivers Duo: Woman standing at Foot of a Tree and Head of a Woman 1968 lithograph Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Laurie Simmons Brothers / Horizon 1979 C-print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
from Lament for Bion
Ah! when the mallow in the croft dies down,
Or the pale parsley or the crisped anise,
Again they grow, another year they flourish;
But we, the great, the valiant, and the wise,
Once covered over in the hollow earth,
Sleep a long, dreamless, unawakening sleep.
– Moschus (mid-2nd century BC), translated by Walter Savage Landor (1842)