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| Jim Dine Six Shoes in Six Colors 1970 etching Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Maison Grand Frères (Lyon) Six-Panel Folding Screen for the Birth Chamber of Louis XVIII ca. 1817-19 silk brocade on wood frame Musée du Louvre |
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| Robert Mapplethorpe Flower 1985 gelatin silver print Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Anonymous French Artist Joyeuse Assemblée dans un Bateau ca. 1540-60 enamel on copper (Limoges) Musée du Louvre |
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| John Pfahl Six Oranges, Buffalo, New York 1975 dye imbibition print National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Bonifazio de' Pitati (Bonifazio Veronese) Virgin and Child with infant St John the Baptist, St Omobono of Cremona (with Beggar) and St Barbara 1533 oil on canvas Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice |
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| workshop of Pietro Perugino Virgin and Child with Angels, St Rose and St Catherine of Alexandria ca. 1485-95 oil on panel National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Horace Le Blanc Transverberation of St Teresa of Ávila 1621 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon |
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| Pierre Parrocel Satyr, Bacchante and Putti before 1739 etching British Museum |
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| Anonymous German Artist Adoration of the Magi ca. 1450-60 pearwood relief Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Mario De Biasi Train Station, Bologna 1952 gelatin silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Attilio Salemme Enigma of Joy 1947 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Andy Warhol Self Portrait - Strangulation 1978 screenprints on canvases Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |
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| Andy Warhol Skulls 1976 screenprints on canvases Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |
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| Callum Innes Six Identified Forms 1992 oil on canvas Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |
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| Grace Hartigan Six by Six 1951 oil on canvas Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Michael Loew Six of a Kind, Nothing Wild 1979 acrylic and watercolor on linen Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York |
"Ralph and Felix made fashionable a new and particularly blood-curdling form of hide-and-seek. Our ordinary game was called Scallawag, and was played of a winter's evening all over the house, which was well adapted for the purpose, having two staircases and plenty of passages and complications. All the passage lights were turned out – our parents were wonderfully patient about this – and the Scallawag pounced out of dark corners on the seekers, and chased them as they raced shrieking for Home. I am sorry to say that Charles and I found that we could add zest to this game by making Margaret Scallawag, and then goading and insulting her till she became mad with rage; a thing which was never very difficult to do. We were then really afraid of being caught by her, for the ferocity of her pinches was well known. In battle, Margaret selected a certain very painful part of her victim's upper arm for pinching; I hit with my fists; Charles kicked. This was the accepted practice during hostilities; which, I must say, were not usually very serious.
Ralph's innovation lay in playing hide-and-seek out of doors at night; the party was divided into two sides, and a lantern was placed in the middle of the lawn, to be Home. Tiptoeing about in the rustling blackness of the garden, with a potential enemy behind every bush, was altogether too much for my nerves though, of course, I dared not say so. Yet even through my terror, I enjoyed the strong secrecy of the night, and felt how the power and personality of each tree and plant comes pouring out in the dark."
– Gwen Raverat, from Period Piece: a Cambridge Childhood (London: Faber and Faber, 1952)