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| Anonymous Italian Artist after Tintoretto Moses striding to the left ca. 1575-1600 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist after Tintoretto Man cutting bread, viewed from the back ca. 1580-1600 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Joseph Heintz the Elder Toilette of Venus 1594 drawing (red and black chalk) Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Niccolò Trometta Group of Figures late 16th century drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Claude Lorrain Rocky Hillside ca. 1635-36 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| attributed to Willem Drost Christ and the Woman of Samaria ca. 1649 drawing Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham |
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| Charles Alphonse Dufresnoy Bacchanal with Putti 1651 drawing Minneapolis Institute of Art |
To my Comrade, Moses J. Jackson, Scoffer at this Scholarship
As we went walking far and wide
Through silent fields and countryside,
We watched together star signs brim
And rise above the ocean's rim,
And planets too, that fret with light
The icy caverns of the Night.
These constellations we now mark,
When we were not, in formless dark,
A poet, centuries before,
Would watch from the Italian shore
Drop in the sea, and mindful Earth
Had made him mortal from his birth,
He set on high his music's bars
Among the everlasting stars,
To those to come, clear warning sign
To place no faith in the divine;
For sacred to the pole unfurled
Above, and compassing the world,
These songs yet suffered sad disgrace
And almost sank without a trace:
Though to our strand this wreckage came,
It scarcely owned its author's name.
Mine not to exhort the gods
Or stars that vex our mortal odds,
But love of virtue quick to fade
Makes me seek fame with human aid.
A man, I chose a man to stand
At this front page and my right hand –
Who thrive or perish in my pages,
Brief friend, your name should last the ages.
I send these lines to you who went
Where stars rise in the Orient.
From here where constellations sink
Below the ocean's western brink.
Take them: for that day will come
To add us to the canceled sum
And give our bones to earth to rot
(For we have no immortal lot,
And souls that will not last forever)
And the chain of comrades sever.
– A.E. Housman, translated from Latin by A.E. Stallings (2012)
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| attributed to Pietro de' Pietri Michelangelo presenting the statue of Moses on the Tomb of Pope Julius II to Pope Paul III before 1716 drawing Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Allegorical Figure of Vigilance ca. 1800-1820 drawing Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Figures for Wall Decoration ca. 1800-1825 drawing Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Felice Giani Cupid in Flight ca. 1800 drawing Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Felice Giani Venetian Architectural Capriccio with Colleoni Monument by Andrea del Verrocchio ca. 1800-1825 drawing Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Flaminio Innocenzo Minozzi Elevation and ground plan of an Altar dedicated to a Female Martyr before 1817 drawing Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Giuseppe Bernardino Bison Two Young Women ca. 1810 drawing Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Kenyon Cox Drapery Study ca. 1906 drawing Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |