Ornamental

Ambrosius Benson
Man with Clasped Hands
ca. 1495
oil on panel
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Anonymous Netherlandish Artist after Marco Pino
Adoration of the Magi
ca. 1550
drawing
British Museum

Denys Calvaert
Holy Family with young St John the Baptist
ca. 1570-73
oil on canvas
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College,
Hanover, New Hampshire

attributed to Jacques Bellange
Two Musicians
before 1647
drawing
British Museum

Giulio Benso
Sleeping Putto in Clouds with Palm
(design for pendentive painting)
before 1668
drawing
British Museum

Diana Beauclerk
A Pastoral
ca. 1765
watercolor on paper
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas

José Camarón y Boronat
Archangel Gabriel taking part in the Annunciation
ca. 1775
oil on canvas
Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia, Spain

Maria Cosway
Cupid provoking the Fates
ca. 1800
drawing (print study)
British Museum

John Sell Cotman
Classical Scene with Dancers
ca. 1835-39
wash drawing (study for watercolor)
British Museum

Winslow Homer
Summertime
1880
watercolor on paper
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Williams, Brown & Earle (Philadelphia)
Fontana del Quirinale, Rome
ca. 1910
hand-colored lantern slide
Archives of American Gardens, Washington DC

Kenyon Cox
Herm
(study for painting, The Education of Cupid)
1917
drawing
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Arthur F. Kales
Black Drapery
ca. 1925
bromoil print
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Samuel Woolf
Neville Chamberlain
1938
oil on canvas
(commissioned by Time magazine)
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Ger Gerrits
Composition no. 69
1949
lithograph
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia

Jack Beal
Danae II
1972
oil on linen
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

William T. Wiley
The City
2000
hand-colored linocut
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

from Contemplations

Shall I then praise the heavens, the trees, the earth,

Because their beauty and their strength last longer?

Shall I wish there, or never to had birth,

Because they're bigger, and their bodies stronger?

Nay, they shall darken, perish, fade, and die,

And when unmade, so ever shall they lie;

But man was made for endless immortality.

Under the cooling shadow of a stately elm

Close sat I by a goodly river's side,

Where gliding streams the rocks did overwhelm:

A lonely place, with pleasure dignified.

I, once that loved the shady woods so well,

Now thought the rivers did the trees excel,

And if the sun would ever shine, there would I dwell.

While on the stealing stream I fixed my eye,

Which to the longed-for ocean held its course,

I marked, nor crooks nor rubs that there did lie

Could hinder ought, but still augment its force.

'O happy flood,' quoth I, 'that hold thy race

Till thou arrive at thy belovèd place;

Nor is it rocks or shoals that can obstruct thy pace,

Nor is't enough that thou alone mayst slide,

But hundred brooks in thy clear waves do meet,

So hand in hand along with thee they glide

To Thetis' house, where all embrace and greet.

Thou emblem true of what I count the best,

Oh could I lead my rivulets to rest,

So may we press to that vast mansion, ever blest.'

– Anne Bradstreet (1650)