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| Sawrey Gilpin Gulliver addressing the Houyhnhnms (scene from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift) 1769 oil on canvas Yale Center for British Art |
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| Charles Robert Leslie Gulliver presented to the Queen of Brobdingnag (scene from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift) ca. 1834-35 oil on canvas National Trust, Petworth House, Sussex |
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| William Lindsay Windus Middlemas's Interview with his Parents (scene from The Surgeon's Daughter by Walter Scott) 1854 oil on panel Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
"As painting materials became more readily available in commercial preparations in the 18th and 19th centuries, systematic methods of painting that were once passed from master to apprentice were replaced by greater individual experimentation, which in some cases led to faulty technique. Artists sometimes used too much oil, leading to ineradicable wrinkling, or they superimposed layers that dried at different rates, producing a wide craquelure as a result of unequal shrinkage, a phenomenon that occurred increasingly as the 19th century progressed because of the use of a brown pigment called "bitumen." Bituminous paints never dry completely, producing a surface effect resembling crocodile skin. The defects cannot be cured and can be visually ameliorated only by judicious retouching."
– Encyclopædia Britannica
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| Charles Edward Hallé Quentin Durward in Armour (scene from Quentin Durward by Walter Scott) 1890 oil on canvas Southwark Art Collection, London |
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| Angelica Kauffmann Armida in Vain endeavours with her Entreaties to prevent Rinaldo's Departure (scene from Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso) ca. 1776 oil on canvas Kenwood House, London |
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| Giambattista Tiepolo Rinaldo enchanted by Armida, with Venus presiding (scene from Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso) ca. 1742-45 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
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| William Maw Egley The Lady of Shalott (scene from The Lady of Shalott by Alfred, Lord Tennyson) 1858 oil on canvas Museums Sheffield, Yorkshire |
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| George Frederic Watts Britomart (scene from The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser) 1877-78 oil on canvas Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, West Midlands |
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| Edward Penny Imogen discovered in the Cave (scene from Cymbeline by Shakespeare) ca. 1770 oil on canvas Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon |
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| Daniel Maclise Malvolio and the Countess (scene from Twelfth Night by Shakespeare) ca. 1840 oil on canvas Tate Britain |
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| Frank Dicksee Romeo and Juliet (scene from Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare) 1884 oil on canvas Southampton City Art Gallery |
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| Hans Horions The First Meeting of Theagenes and Charicleia (scene from the Aethiopica of Heliodorus) 1649 oil on canvas Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow |
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| Theodor von Holst Bertalda frightened by Apparitions (scene from Undine by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué) ca. 1840 oil on canvas The Wilson, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire |
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| John Duncan Tristan and Isolde (scene from medieval French ballad) 1912 tempera on canvas City Art Centre, Edinburgh |
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| Valentine Cameron Prinsep The Queen was in the Parlour eating Bread and Honey (scene from Mother Goose rhyme) ca. 1885 oil on panel Manchester Art Gallery |