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| César Álvarez Dumont Galley Slaves ca. 1897 oil on canvas Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Giambattista Tiepolo Scene from Ancient History ca. 1750 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Nicolai Abildgaard The Slave Davus and the Maid Mysis (scene from Terence's Andria) 1804 oil on canvas Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen |
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| Benjamin West The Death of Procris (scene from Ovid's Ars Amatoria) 1770 oil on panel Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Herman Padtbrugge Death of the Prince of Orange in 1584 1677 etching Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Gaetano Gandolfi after Nicolas Poussin Death of Germanicus ca. 1760 etching Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Gérard de Lairesse Achilles (an Egyptian General) offering Pompey's Head to Caesar ca. 1670 etching Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Edwin Austin Abbey Who is Sylvia? What is She? (scene from Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona) ca. 1896-99 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| attributed to Jean-Claude Naigeon Numa Pompilius consulting the Nymph Egeria ca. 1791 oil on canvas Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham |
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| Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz) Amazon wooed by Grecian Hunter ca. 1860 drawing, with watercolor British Museum |
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| John Singer Sargent Bacchus served by Bacchante ca. 1875-80 drawing, with colored chalks National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| attributed to Peter Paul Rubens Castor and Pollux abducting the Daughters of Leucippus ca. 1610-11 oil on panel (sketch) National Gallery of Norway, Oslo |
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| Donato Creti Alexander the Great threatened by his Father (scene from Plutarch's Life of Alexander) ca. 1700-1705 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg The Return of Ulysses (scene from The Odyssey of Homer) 1812 oil on canvas Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen |
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| John William Godward Reverie 1904 oil on canvas Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Wilfried Sätty Untitled (Forest Scene) 1970 offset lithograph (poster) Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Achenbach Foundation) |
My galley, chargèd with forgetfulness,
Thorough sharp seas in winter nights doth pass
'Tween rock and rock; and eke mine en'my, alas,
That is my lord, steereth with cruelness;
And every owre a thought in readiness,
As though that death were light in such a case.
An endless wind doth tear the sail apace
Of forced sighs and trusty fearfulness.
A rain of tears, a cloud of dark disdain,
Hath done the weared cords great hinderance;
Wreathèd with error and eke with ignorance.
The stars be hid that led me to this pain;
Drownèd is Reason that should me comfort,
And I remain despairing of the port.
– Sir Thomas Wyatt (ca. 1540, after a sonnet of Petrarch)