Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Depths

Herri met de Bles
Landscape with Forge
ca. 1535
oil on panel
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna


Philip Galle after Maarten van Heemskerck
Colossus of Rhodes
1572
hand-colored engraving
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Jan de Bisschop
View of The Hague from the Northwest
ca. 1660-65
ink and watercolor on paper 
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Georg Balthasar
Outskirts of Amsterdam
ca. 1775
hand-colored engraving (peep-show scene)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Antonio Carnicero
Ascent of a Balloon in the Presence of the Court of Charles IV of Spain
ca. 1783
oil on canvas
Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Spain

John Sell Cotman
Mousehold Heath, Norwich
1810
watercolor on paper
British Museum

Edward Lear
View of Monaco
ca. 1864
watercolor and gouache on paper
British Museum

Jean-Léon Gérôme
Prayer in the Mosque
1871
oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Vincent van Gogh
Landscape with Snow
1888
oil on canvas
Guggenheim Museum, New York

Willem Roelofs
Landscape near Gouda
before 1897
drawing
British Museum

Williams, Brown & Earle (Philadelphia)
La Grande Charmille, Château de Voisins
1936
hand-colored lantern-slide
Archives of American Gardens, Washington DC

Sali Herman
McElhone Stairs
1944
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Christo (Christo Javacheff)
Running Fence, Project for Sonoma and Marin Counties
1976
collage and mixed media on paper
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Geoffrey James
Giardino Storico di Valsanzibio, Villa Barbarigo
1984
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Eric Meola
California
1991
C-print
(commissioned by Time magazine)
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Andreas Gursky
Atlanta
1996
C-print
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Mitch Epstein
Century Wind Project - Blairsburg, Iowa
2008
C-print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Madrigal

Like the Idalian queen,
Her hair about her eyne, 
With neck and breasts ripe apples to be seen,
At first glance of the morn
In Cyprus garden gathering those fair flowers
Which of her blood were born,
I saw, but fainting saw, my paramours.
The Graces naked danced about the place,
The winds and trees amazed
With silence on her gazed;
The flowers did smile, like those upon her face,
And as their aspen stalks those fingers band,
That she might read my case,
A hyacinth I wished me in her hand.

– William Drummond of Hawthornden (ca. 1614)