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| Lorenzo Costa the Elder Virgin and Child enthroned ca. 1495 oil on panel Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |
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| Albrecht Dürer Portrait of a Man 1505 drawing British Museum |
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| Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts Trompe-l'Oeil 1663 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Guglielmo Cortese Women in a Garden before 1679 drawing British Museum |
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| Aelbert Cuyp Ruins of a Castle on the Merwede near Dordrecht before 1691 drawing British Museum |
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| Aelbert Cuyp Ruins of a Castle on the Merwede near Dordrecht before 1691 drawing British Museum |
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| Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich Portrait of a Man in the manner of Rembrandt before 1774 drawing British Museum |
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| John Sell Cotman after J.M.W. Turner Roman Landscape with Temple of Minerva Medica ca. 1815 drawing (after Turner's print) British Museum |
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| Walter Crane Scene from Valentine and Orson 1870 watercolor and ink on paper (design for printed illustration) British Museum |
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| Kenyon Cox after Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio Copy of Sacra Conversazione in the Louvre ca. 1878-82 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Alfred J. Frueh Michio Ito 1918 hand-colored linocut National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Alfred J. Frueh Michio Ito 1918 hand-colored linocut National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| John Steuart Curry After the Tornado 1930 oil on canvas Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| Alice Trumbull Mason The Green Cat's Eye 1955 oil on canvas Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| Terry Frost Red Blue Green 1972 lithograph Tate Modern, London |
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| Jeff Gibson Constantinople 1997 screenprint Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
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| Ford Crull Anthem II 2000 oil stick on canvas Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Tennessee |
Preface to The Progress of Learning
My early mistress, now my ancient Muse,
That strong Circean liquor cease t' infuse
Wherewith thou didst intoxicate my youth:
Now stoop with disenchanted wings to truth;
As the dove's flight did guide Aeneas, now
May thine conduct me to the golden bough;
Tell, like a tall old oak, how learning shoots
To heaven her branches, and to hell her roots.
– Sir John Denham (1668)