Prominent Persons

Henry Edward Tidmarsh
Waiting for the Procession, Manchester
1893-94
drawing
Manchester Art Gallery

Henry Edward Tidmarsh
Terrace Walk, Alexandra Park, Manchester
1893-94
drawing
Manchester Art Gallery

Henry Edward Tidmarsh
Designing Room, Municipal School of Art, Manchester
1893-94
drawing
Manchester Art Gallery

Henry Edward Tidmarsh
Chemical Laboratory, Manchester Grammar School
1893-94
watercolor and gouache on paper
Manchester Art Gallery

Jusepe de Ribera
Baptism of Christ
1643
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy

Jusepe de Ribera
Martyrdom of St Bartholomew
1634
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Jusepe de Ribera
St Roch
1631
oil on canvas
Museo del Prado, Madrid

Jusepe de Ribera
St Thomas
ca. 1609-1610
oil on canvas
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Antoine Claudet
Hamilton Sisters
1856
hand-colored daguerreotype (stereograph)
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Antoine Claudet
Hamilton Children
1856
hand-colored daguerreotype (stereograph)
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Antoine Claudet
Eliza Hamilton
1856
hand-colored daguerreotype (stereograph)
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Antoine Claudet
Hamilton Sister with Mother
1856
hand-colored daguerreotype (stereograph)
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Édouard Vuillard
Le Jardin des Tuileries
ca. 1900
oil on canvas
Menil Collection, Houston

Édouard Vuillard
Madame Lucy Hessel working at a Dressmaker's Table
1908
oil on board
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona

Édouard Vuillard
Seated Woman with Cup of Coffee
1893
oil and tempera on card
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Édouard Vuillard
Woman with Red Scarf
ca. 1900
oil on board
Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal

from Part One of The Age of Anxiety 

Malin said:
     But the new barbarian is no uncouth
     Desert-dweller; he does not emerge
     From fir forests; factories bred him,
     Corporate companies, college towns
     Mothered his mind, and many journals
     Backed his beliefs. He was born here. The
     Bravura of revolvers in vogue now
     And the cult of death are quite at home
     Inside the city.

Quant said:
                              The soldiers' fear
     And the shots will cease in a short while,
     More ruined regions surrender to less,
     Prominent persons be put to death
     For mass-murder, and what moves us now,
     The defence of friends against foes' hate,
     Be over for ever. Then, after that,
     What shall we will? Why shall we practise
     Vice or virtue when victory comes?
     The celebrations are suddenly hushed,
     The coarse crowds uncomfortably still,
     For, arm-in-arm now, behind the festooned
     Conqueror's car there come his heirs, the
     Public hangman, the private wastrel.

– W.H. Auden (1944-46)