Date: 1817
"The lights and shades, in contrast due, / Relieve each other in the view: / Alike the moral painter's part / T'obey the rules of studious art; / Thus to attract the mental eye / With height'ning variety;-- / And as the pencil truly gives / Each form that on the canvas lives, / To make his pen ad...
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)
Date: April 26 1870
"Between the threads fine fumes arise / And shape their pictures in the brain."
preview | full record— Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)
Date: 1876
"'The enchantment works,' thought Merlin; 'this will do;/ I think the image on his soul is painted;' / And then the mirror suddenly withdrew"
preview | full record— Moultrie, John (1799-1874)