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The Reunion of Cupid and Psyche, Jean-Pierre Saint-Ours, (c. 1789-92) // “Take Me to Heaven”, Tennis ; Les amours des anges, Édouard Cibot, (1834) // “She’s an Angel”, They Might Be Giants
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Acme and Septimius, Frederic Leighton (before 1868) // ‘Game Shows Touch Our Lives’, The Mountain Goats
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illustration of Cassandra from The Stratford Gallery (1859) // ‘Too Little, Too Late’ by Metric
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Spring(1888) and Le Repos Des Artistes (c. 1880), Emile Friant // ‘Calculation Theme’, Metric
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Зимний пейзаж (Winter Landscape), Ivan Aivazovsky (1876) and The Skaters, Theodor Matthei (1913) // ‘2000 Miles’, Pretenders
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You’ll rise up free and easy on that day
In the Month of June (1899), L. A. Ring / Up The Wolves, The Mountain Goats
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Clytemnestra and Agammemnon (c. 1822), Pierre-Narcisse Guérin / Don’t Hurt Yourself, Beyoncé
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(First page of the oldest surviving poem by iconic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley - “Cat In Distress”. He apparently wrote this when he was about 10. Sometime between 1809 and 1811, his sister Elizabeth transcribed it onto this piece of paper and created the little watercolor cat image. When Elizabeth died, the poem was passed to her sister Hellen.)
Pussy’s Return Publisher: Currier & Ives (American, active New York, 1857–1907) Date: 1874–78 Medium: Hand-colored lithograph Dimensions: image: 8 ½ x 12 ½ in. (21.6 x 31.8 cm) Classification: Prints Credit Line: Bequest of Adele S. Colgate, 1962 Accession Number: 63.550.314 Metropolitan Museum of Art
Hammatt Billings, illustration for Tabitha Grimalkin’s Tales From Catland, for Little Kittens, by an Old Tabby (1852)
Marcus Stone, Good Friends, 1887
Bicycle suit by J A Dunn & Co, ca 1895 England (London) - worn in the US (Atlanta, GA), Atlanta History Center
As far a bicycle suits go, you may be most familiar with the type that consisted of a top and bloomers. These were controversial, however. A modest woman would have worn something like this, with heavy leather trim on the hem of the skirt so it wouldn’t fly up in the wind.
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