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Byron, George Gordon
Lorca, Federico Garcia
Sterne, Laurence
Marlowe, Christopher
Swift, Jonathan
Melville, Herman
Thompson, James
Lem, Stanislaw
Mallarmé, Stéphane
Calvino, Italo
Yeats, William Butler
Joyce, James Augustine Aloysius
Laforgue, Jules
Rumi, Jajal al-Din
Blake, William
Laforge, Jules
Ovid
Baudelaire, Charles Pierre
Plath, Sylvia
Donne, John
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Fielding, Henry
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
MacDiarmid, Hugh
Shonagon, Sei
Hardy, Thomas
De Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel
Milton, John
Apollinaire, Guillaume
Alighieri, Dante
Orwell, George
Farid al-Din Attar
Taylor Coleridge, Samuel
Sassoon, Siegfried
Shakespeare, William
Caroll, Lewis
Bernard Shaw, George
Congreve, William
Garcia-Bodaño, Salvador
Shaw, George Bernard
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Map of Nowhere
Grayson Perry (1960 - )
Time Surgeon Performers’ Mask
Nathaniel Mellors (1974 - )
It Is True
Sir Terry Frost (1915 - 2003)
Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías
Sir Terry Frost (1915 - 2003)
Title Page
Sir Terry Frost (1915 - 2003)
The Moon Rising
Sir Terry Frost (1915 - 2003)
Saint Raphael (Cordoba)
Sir Terry Frost (1915 - 2003)
Thamar and Amnon
Sir Terry Frost (1915 - 2003)
The Old Lizard
Sir Terry Frost (1915 - 2003)
Pause of the Clock
Sir Terry Frost (1915 - 2003)
The Spinster at Mass
Sir Terry Frost (1915 - 2003)
Rider’s Song
Sir Terry Frost (1915 - 2003)
Tree Tree
Sir Terry Frost (1915 - 2003)
A Battle with Some Wineskins
Colin Lanceley (1938 - 2015)
Variations
Sir Terry Frost (1915 - 2003)
what our lives have been given to find
William Johnstone (1897 - 1981)
“Hamlet”: … that is the Question
Allen Jones (1937 - )
Shakespeare Sonnet 11
Sir Sidney Nolan (1917 - 1992)
Prison and Fresh Breezes
Robert Medley (1905 - 1994)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Patrick Procktor (1936 - 2003)
Les Sirenes [The Sirens]
Graham Sutherland (1903 - 1980)
Anthony and Cleopatra
Emma Kay (1961 - )
Henry VI
Mark Lancaster (1938 - 2021)
Celadon and Amelia in a Landscape
John Howes
the goal
William Johnstone (1897 - 1981)
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“Macbeth”: Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible of feeling as to sight? Or art thou but a dagger of the mind, a false creation?
John S Hawley (1939 - )
Derramabanse Froitos de Pedra…
Alfonso Costa (1943 - )
Salvador Garcia-Bodaño
“A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream”
Cecil Collins (1908 - 1989)
The Knight’s Penance in the Sierra Morena
Colin Lanceley (1938 - 2015)
Perseus Delivering Andromeda
Charles Joseph Dominique Eisen (1720 - 1778)
William, I Walker (1729 - 1793)
Salve Urbe Magna…
Alfonso Costa (1943 - )
Salvador Garcia-Bodaño
Macbeth
Ernest Alfred Dunn (1937 - )
Pelican in Her Piety
David Jones (1895 - 1974)
Thisbe: “An envious wall the Babylonian maid from Pyramus, her gentle lover, stayed. etc.” – Ovid
Edwin Longsden Long (1829 - 1891)
Gustave Nicolas Bertinot (1822 - 1888)
“Henry V”: Battle of Agincourt
Jill Mustchin (1939 - )
The Sun Rising – John Donne
Michael Rothenstein (1908 - 1993)
“But it isn’t old!” Tweedledum cried, in a greater fury than ever. “It’s new, I tell you – I bought it yesterday – my nice NEW RATTLE!” and his voice rose to a perfect scream.
Peter Blake (1932 - )
La Tortue [Tortoise]
Graham Sutherland (1903 - 1980)
Le Lion [The Lion]
Graham Sutherland (1903 - 1980)
Apollinaire
Francis Wishart (1951 - )
Pshaw! [George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) playwright and polemicist]
James Dexter Havens (1900 - 1960)
Plate 6
Chris Orr (1943 - )
Plate 5
Chris Orr (1943 - )
Gulliver Reclining
James Millar (1945 - )
“It isn’t manners for us to begin, you know”, said the Rose.
Peter Blake (1932 - )
When the blossom is shed, the fruit comes to a head: when the body is shattered, the spirit lifts up its head (Jajal al-Din Rumi)
Shirazeh Houshiary (1955 - )
Hercules Overcomes Antæus who Opposes his Passage into Africa
Charles Joseph Dominique Eisen (1720 - 1778)
William, I Walker (1729 - 1793)
I’ve only the friendship of hotel rooms
Patrick Caulfield (1936 - 2005)
She fled along the avenue
Patrick Caulfield (1936 - 2005)
Her handkerchief swept me along the Rhine
Patrick Caulfield (1936 - 2005)
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