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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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Backstage, Hamlet
Dame Laura Knight (1877 - 1970)
Shakespeare’s Birthplace
Edwin La Dell (1914 - 1970)
Meleager Presents to Atalanta the Head of the Callydonian Boar
Charles Monnet (1732 - 1808)
William, I Walker (1729 - 1793)
The waves of the earth are our imagination and understanding and thought; the waves of water are self-effacement and intoxication and death (Jajal al-Din Rumi)
Shirazeh Houshiary (1955 - )
As You Like It
Julian Trevelyan (1910 - 1988)
Richard III
David Freed (1936 - )
“Hamlet”: … that is the Question
Allen Jones (1937 - )
Beatrice
Saul Fanfani (1856 - 1919)
Crying to the walls: My God! My God! Will she relent?
Patrick Caulfield (1936 - 2005)
composition (1934)
William Johnstone (1897 - 1981)
Collophon Page
Chris Orr (1943 - )
‘Love’s Labour’s Lost’, Act IV, Scene 3
Thomas Stothard (1755 - 1834)
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) Poet & Dramatist
Augustus John (1878 - 1961)
the target
William Johnstone (1897 - 1981)
It an Ancient Mariner
David Jones (1895 - 1974)
The Liberation of the Galley Slaves
Colin Lanceley (1938 - 2015)
“Hamlet”: … that is the Question
Allen Jones (1937 - )
“Macbeth”: Out, out brief candle!”
Ruskin Spear (1911 - 1990)
Claire Bloom and Paul Scofield in “Hamlet”
Dame Laura Knight (1877 - 1970)
Scene from Marlowe’s ‘Dr Faustus’
Ithell Colquhoun (1906 - 1988)
“Henry IV Part 2”: Sir John Falstaff and Mr Justice Shallow recruiting in Gloucestershire
Brian Robb (1913 - 1979)
Ibis
Graham Sutherland (1903 - 1980)
The Shearing of Samson
Robert Medley (1905 - 1994)
The Divine Comedy: 1. Inferno
Rosemary Bisset (1948 - )
The Divine Comedy: 2. Purgatorio
Rosemary Bisset (1948 - )
The Fall of Gaza
Robert Medley (1905 - 1994)
Shakespeare’s XV Sonnet
Joe Tilson (1928 - 2023)
Pequod
Roger Hilton (1911 - 1975)
Compostela é unha rúa longa…
Alfonso Costa (1943 - )
Salvador Garcia-Bodaño
conception
William Johnstone (1897 - 1981)
The Ship It Was a Plankless Thing
David Jones (1895 - 1974)
Palemon and Lavinia in a Landscape
John Howes
To the Moon – Shelley
Michael Rothenstein (1908 - 1993)
The Hero
Robert Medley (1905 - 1994)
Orwell Memorial III
Michael Sandle (1936 - )
Le Soleil – Baudelaire
Michael Rothenstein (1908 - 1993)
The Cat and the Moon – W B Yeats
Michael Rothenstein (1908 - 1993)
Myrrha, retired into the Country of the Sabeans, is deliver’d of Adonis, and afterwards Metamorphosed into a Tree
Charles Monnet (1732 - 1808)
William, I Walker (1729 - 1793)
The heathen Idol
Robert Medley (1905 - 1994)
Orphée 2 [Orpheus]
Graham Sutherland (1903 - 1980)
La Mouche [The Fly]
Graham Sutherland (1903 - 1980)
Dante’s “Inferno”: 3 Study Portraits of Dante
Syed Saleem Arif Quadri (1949 - )
Cerberus, Chained by Hercules, infects the Earth with his Foam
Charles Joseph Dominique Eisen (1720 - 1778)
William, I Walker (1729 - 1793)
Le Boeuf [The Bull]
Graham Sutherland (1903 - 1980)
La Puce [The Flea]
Graham Sutherland (1903 - 1980)
The Don, the Virgins and the Penitents
Colin Lanceley (1938 - 2015)
The Transformation of Arachne into a Spider
Charles Joseph Dominique Eisen (1720 - 1778)
William, I Walker (1729 - 1793)
O’Dream of Joy
David Jones (1895 - 1974)
Some Adventures of Don Quixote de La Mancha
Colin Lanceley (1938 - 2015)
Just at this moment, somehow or other, they began to run.
Peter Blake (1932 - )
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