Disappointed

Weaver Hawkins
In Lisbon
1958
oil on board
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Hans Hartung
Noir sur fond gris-vert
ca. 1957
lithograph
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

Walter Hege
Sculpture by Tilman Riemenschneider
1949
gelatin silver print
Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Sali Herman
Saturday Morning
1948
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Edwin Headley Holgate
Morin Heights, Autumn
ca. 1947
oil on canvas
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia

Tristram Hillier
A Tidal Creek
1943
oil and tempera on panel
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick

Jacoba van Heemskerck
Bild no. 36
1915
oil on canvas
Kunstmuseum, The Hague

Carl Leopold Hollitzer
Portrait of writer Egon Friedell
ca. 1912
ink and watercolor on paper
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna 

Ferdinand Hodler
Disappointed Souls
1892
oil on canvas
Kunstmuseum, Bern

Alexander Henderson
Mile-End Road
before 1884
albumen silver print
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Georg Emil Hansen
Portrait of Lensbaron Otto Reedtz-Thott
ca. 1862
albumen print (cabinet card)
Royal Library, Copenhagen

Joseph Highmore
Portrait of the artist's wife Susanna and their children
ca. 1728
oil on canvas
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Johann Heiss
King Josiah destroying Idols
ca. 1675
oil on canvas
Deutsche Barockgalerie, Augsburg

Frans Hogenberg
Map of Jerusalem with routes taken by Christ
ca. 1580
hand-colored engraving
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario

Hans Hoffmann
Mocking of Christ
ca. 1580
oil on panel
Národní Galerie, Prague

Maarten van Heemskerck
St Luke painting the Virgin and Child
1532
oil on panel
Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem

Hans Holbein the Elder
Portrait of master-builder Matthäus Roritzer
ca. 1490-95
drawing
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

The Magnet

Ask the Empress of the night

    How the hand which guides her sphere,

Constant in inconstant light,

    Taught the waves her yoke to bear,

And did thus by loving force

Curb or tame the rude sea's course.

Ask the female palm how she

    First did woo her husband's love;

And the magnet, ask how he

    Doth the obsequious iron move;

Waters, plants and stones know this,

That they love, not what love is.

Be not then less kind than these,

    Or from love exempt alone;

Let us twine like amorous trees,

    And like rivers melt in one;

Or if thou more cruel prove

Learn of steel and stones to love. 

– Thomas Stanley (1625-1678)