1875 · Skopia

Showing 6 works across all media from 1875

The Gross Clinic

Genre painting · Realism

The Gross Clinic

1875 · Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia

The surgeon turns from the open incision to lecture, scalpel still bloody, while a woman at the side covers her eyes. Philadelphia was appalled.

★ 7.5

In the bleak mid-winter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak mid-winter, Long ago.

Christina Rossetti

1875

★ 3.5

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

God and the Bible · 1875

★ 2.0

The sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.

1875

★ 1.9

Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.

Susan B. Anthony

1875

★ 1.3

In research the horizon recedes as we advance, and is no nearer at sixty than it was at twenty. As the power of endurance weakens with age, the urgency of the pursuit grows more intense... And research is always incomplete.

1875

★ 0.9