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| Urs Graf the Elder Pilate Washing his Hands ca. 1503 hand-colored woodcut (book illustration) Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Philip Galle after Johannes Stradanus Impressio Librorum 1591 engraving Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Hendrik Hondius the Elder after Hans Vredeman de Vries Perspective Study - Tuscan Order, Pillars and Arches 1605 engraving (book illustration) Herzog August Bibliothek, Wulfenbüttel |
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| Odoardo Fialetti Drawing Manual - Mouths 1608 etching (book illustration) Kupferstichkabinett, Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Domenico Falcini after Jacopo Ligozzi St Francis 1612 engraving (book frontispiece) National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Domenico Falcini after Jacopo Ligozzi View of Monte della Vernia, Tuscany (with levitating figure of St Francis) 1612 etching (book illustration) Kupferstichkabinett, Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Pieter Feddes Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (posthumous representation) before 1623 etching (book illustration) Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel |
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| Albert Flamen Scroll Design for Frontispiece ca. 1648-64 ink and watercolor on paper British Museum |
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| Albert Flamen The Owl ca. 1655-60 etching (book illustration) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Albert Flamen The Snipe ca. 1655-60 etching (book illustration) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Childe Hassam An Island Garden (Celia Thaxter in her Garden) 1892 oil on canvas (for reproduction as book illustration) Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Childe Hassam An Island Garden by Celia Thaxter 1894 chromolithograph (book illustration) Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
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| Ethel Reed Folly or Saintliness 1895 lithograph (advertising poster for book) National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
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| Fidus (Hugo Höppener) Bookmark from J.C.C. Bruns Verlag, Minden ca. 1890-1900 cliché print Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna |
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| Fidus (Hugo Höppener) Bookmark from Velhagen & Klasing, Leipzig ca. 1890-1900 cliché print Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna |
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| Fidus (Hugo Höppener) Bookmark from Velhagen & Klasing, Leipzig ca. 1890-1900 cliché print Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna |
from The End of March
I wanted to get as far as my proto-dream-house,
my crypto-dream-house, that crooked box
set up on pilings, shingled green,
a sort of artichoke of a house, but greener
(boiled with bicarbonate of soda?),
protected from spring tides by a palisade
of – are they railroad ties?
(Many things about this place are dubious.)
I'd like to retire there and do nothing,
or nothing much, forever, in two bare rooms:
look through binoculars, read boring books,
old, long, long books, and write down useless notes,
talk to myself, and, foggy days,
watch the droplets slipping, heavy with light.
– Elizabeth Bishop (1976)