Ornamental

Juan van der Hamen
Bodegón
1627
oil on canvas
Museo del Prado, Madrid

Filippo Juvarra
Variant Designs for Overdoor with Cartouche
ca. 1710
drawing
British Museum

Gabriel Huquier after Gilles-Marie Oppenord
Fountain Design
ca. 1730
engraving
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Gravelot (Hubert-François Bourguignon)
Design for Decorative Panel
before 1773
ink and watercolor on paper
British Museum

Eastman Johnson
Hollyhocks
1876
oil on canvas
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut

Frank Hazenplug
The Emerson and Fisher Company
Carriage Builders, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
1896
lithograph (poster)
Library of Congress, Washington DC

Childe Hassam
The Garden in its Glory
1897
watercolor on paper
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Pierre Gusman
Sample-page of Typographic Vignettes
ca. 1900
wood-engravings
British Museum

Frank Hurley
Flannel Flowers
ca. 1914
carbon print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Walter Gramatté
Still Life with Clock and Pot of Tulips
1921-22
oil on canvas
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich

Nora Heysen
Spring Flowers
ca. 1956
oil on canvas
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Sheila Hicks
The Silk Rainforest
ca. 1975
silk, linen, cotton
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

David Lance Goines
Chez Panisse Café
1980
lithograph
(poster with shamelessly flattering self-portrait)
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

David Lance Goines
Pallido California Extra Virgin Olive Oil
1987
lithograph (advertising poster)
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Milton Glaser
Windows on the World
[restaurant / bar in the World Trade Center, New York]
2001
offset-lithograph (menu cover)
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Milton Glaser
Windows on the World
[restaurant / bar in the World Trade Center, New York]
2001
offset-lithograph (advertising flyer)
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Jess Johnson
Manomyth
2018
gouache and felt-marker on paper
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

from An Hymn of the Fairest Fair

    In those vast fields of light, ethereal plains,

Thou art attended by immortal trains

Of intellectual powers, which thou brought forth

To praise thy goodness and admire thy worth;

In numbers passing other creatures far,

Since most in number, noblest creatures are,

Which do in knowledge us no less outrun

Than moon doth stars in light, or moon the sun.

Unlike, in orders ranged and many a band

(If beauty in disparity doth stand)

Archangels, angels, cherubs, seraphins,

And what with name of thrones amongst them shines,

Large-ruling princes, dominations, powers,

All-acting virtues of those flaming towers:

These freed of umbrage, these of labour free,

Rest ravishèd with still beholding thee . . .

– William Drummond of Hawthornden (1630)