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Jonathan Eastman Johnson (July 29, 1824 – April 5, 1906) was an American painter & co-founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, with his name inscribed at its entrance.

Gathering Lilies, 1865

Location: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

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2018-08-13

has dozed off in the heat. He boasts a slightly porcine curly tail & terrific tusks. Caption: Elephant inscribed SPODIUM I(D EST) ELEPH(ANTU)S. Source: Compendium Salernitanum. Italy, possibly Venice, 1350-137; M.873 fol. 80r.

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2018-07-09

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born in 1712. We have a large collection of related material, from the libraries of Ralph Leigh & Robert Wokler, including this work by Rousseau inscribed by him to d'Alambert, co-editor of the Encyclopédie with Diderot https://t.co/1uUXstcuOH

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2018-06-28

If you join the d20 Dames Patreon at the CHET CHAMPIONSHIP FINALIST level, dear listener, you get your name inscribed on our "Wall of Big Cheeses & Chet Championship Finalists" on our website! We already have a few names ready to go!

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2018-06-24

John (1940 ) “Landscape, 1959”, oil on canvas, signed and numbered ‘3’, and inscribed and dated JUNE 30. Est: £800-£1200.

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2018-06-07

"Curiosity of Promise"

On this day, the gatekeeper was given a ring with words "Promise" inscribed on it. She became enraptured by what these words and even this ring could mean. This was the beginning of how her curiosity started to get the best of her.

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2018-05-30

Thinking about him
I slept, only to have him
Appear before me
Had I known it was a dream
I should never have wakened.

Ono no Komachi, her words inscribed in the mid 9th century; the yearning still palpable today.

Ono no Komachi at Kiyomizu-dera Temple
ca.1767
Suzuki Harunobu

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2018-04-19

Portrait of English poet Judith Madan (1702-1781)

Inscribed to the lower right ‘KAEIO’, the Greek name for Clio, the muse of history, writing and poetry.

From Isherwood Fine Art https://t.co/CPSEqgC9IS

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2018-03-21

It is said a dragon horse rose out of the Yellow River with a mystic chart inscribed on its back from which the written language of China was created

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2018-01-04

et quelques autres par Lord Alfred Douglas
inscribed by Douglas to Harry Winkler, June 1931

Lissadell collection

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2017-12-19

Inscribed to Deems Taylor...
Charles Addams: Sidewalk Hearse https://t.co/2OWX9e62eI

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2017-06-25

Charles Bartlett - Watercolour, The Blue Boat, titled and inscribed label verso, mounted and framed, 29cm x 18cm

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2017-05-13

"Wall of Half Dome, Yosemite." Inscribed, signed, dated 1925.

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2016-09-27