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| Odoardo Fialetti Frieze on the water, with pairs - Putti & Dolphin, Centaur & Seahorse, Satyr & Nereid ca. 1620-37 etching British Museum |
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| Claude de Jongh London Bridge, from the west ca. 1632 oil on panel Yale Center for British Art |
THAT LENGTH OF TIME CONSUMES ALL THINGS
What harder is than stone, what more than water soft?
Yet with soft water drops, hard stones be pierced soft.
What gives so strong impulse
That stone may not withstand?
What gives more weak repulse
Than water pressed with hand?
Yet weak though water be
It holloweth hardest flint.
By proof whereof we see
Time gives the greatest dint.
– anonymous, based on Ovid, from Tottel's Miscellany (1557)
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| Claude Lorrain Panorama from the Sasso ca. 1649-55 drawing (formerly owned by Queen Christina of Sweden) Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Cassiano dal Pozzo Paper Museum Two wall-friezes with grotesques (attributed to Luzio Luzzi) before 1575 drawing Royal Collection, Windsor |
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| Francesco Guardi Decorative cartouche with aquatic scene ca. 1770 watercolor Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Jan Arends View of a Park 1770 wash drawing Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Edward Lear Karnak 9:30 pm, 22 January 1867 watercolor Yale Center for British Art |
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| John Linton Chapman The Appian Way 1869 oil on canvas Brooklyn Museum |
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| George Hendrik Breitner Cavalry ca. 1883-88 oil on canvas Gemeentemuseum, The Hague |
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| Albert Joseph Moore A Summer Night ca. 1887 oil on canvas Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| Albert Pinkham Ryder Dead Bird 1890s oil on panel Phillips Collection, Washington DC |
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| Otto Greiner Eve, the Devil, and Sin personified 1898 lithograph British Museum |
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| Kirill Bondarenko Winged Superman against Nude Winged Warrior (painted on reverse) 2000 oil on paper British Museum |
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| Kirill Bondarenko Winged Superman against Nude Winged Warrior (on dollar bill) 2000 oil on paper British Museum |