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| Conrad Felixmüller ABC – a Nonsense Alphabet (colophon) 1925 hand-colored woodcut Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Conrad Felixmüller ABC – a Nonsense Alphabet (illustration page - A-B) 1925 hand-colored woodcut Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Conrad Felixmüller ABC – a Nonsense Alphabet (illustration page - E-F) 1925 hand-colored woodcut Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Conrad Felixmüller ABC – a Nonsense Alphabet (illustration page - G-H) 1925 hand-colored woodcut Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Conrad Felixmüller ABC – a Nonsense Alphabet (illustration page - K-L) 1925 hand-colored woodcut Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Conrad Felixmüller ABC – a Nonsense Alphabet (illustration page - U-V) 1925 hand-colored woodcut Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Kiki Smith Pool of Tears 2 2001 hand-colored etching and aquatint Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Edvard Munch Lovers in the Waves 1896 hand-colored lithograph Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| William T. Wiley Hornicopia 2000 hand-colored linocut Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| William T. Wiley Burden Landscape 2000 hand-colored linocut Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Louis Portman after Jacques Kuyper New Hollanders 1802 hand-colored engraving National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Pietro Fabris Sir William Hamilton conducting their Sicilian Majesties to view Vesuvius by Night 1771 hand-colored etching British Museum |
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| Thomas Rowlandson The Covent Garden Night-Mare (caricature of politician Charles James Fox as Fuseli pastiche) 1784 hand-colored etching and engraving Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Philibert-Louis Debucourt Robe en Organdis de Couleur 1800 hand-colored etching (fashion plate) Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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| George Humphrey Vice and Profligacy extinguished by Equity 1827 hand-colored etching Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| Ferdinand Bauer Gymea Lily ca. 1806-1813 hand-colored engraving National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
from Primer
A final lassitude, of snapdragons
Puckering in their plot, the air like bronze,
Ringing of bronze, even the fieriest ones
Too weary in their exile to deny
Taste of the forbidden fruit of the bare sky.
"Blessed is what is born, for it shall die"
* * *
– The words were next to nothing, but we shook
Enhancement from them, like the childhood book
Wherein, since then, we had not thought to look:
How much we had forgotten. The first page
Bespeaks a pang no worldliness can gauge:
Once more its glimmering scripture to assuage
Calls from within us cypress and flowering thorn,
Carpets, the woman and the god each morn
Naming the creatures to their latest-born.
– James Merrill (1951)