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| Giovanni Battista Pittoni the Younger The Continence of Scipio ca. 1737 oil on canvas Neue Pinakothek, Munich |
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| Pierre Parrocel Bacchanalia before 1739 etching British Museum |
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| Giambattista Tiepolo Triton and Nereids with Dolphin ca. 1750-60 drawing British Museum |
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| Charles Michel-Ange Challe Funeral of Cleopatra staged as Roman Triumph before 1778 drawing British Museum |
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| Joseph Anton Koch Les Argonautes 1799 engraving (portfolio of illustrations) British Museum |
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| Luigi Sabatelli Mounted Soldier receiving Acclamation ca. 1800 drawing British Museum |
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| Louis Lafitte Statuette of Roman Soldier ca. 1810 drawing British Museum |
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| Cornelius Varley Maenads singing Hymns 1810 drawing (print study for illustration to The Bacchae of Euripides) British Museum |
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| Felice Giani Prometheus creating the First Man ca. 1810-15 drawing National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
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| Johann Heinrich Ramberg Classical Figure with Tripod 1813 drawing British Museum |
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| Pietro Fancelli Four Standing Warriors ca. 1820 drawing National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Thomas Rowlandson The Roman Bath before 1827 ink and watercolor on paper British Museum |
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| Bartolomeo Pinelli Abduction of Helen 1827 drawing British Museum |
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| Hippolyte Flandrin Theseus recognized by his Father 1832 oil on canvas École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris |
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| Edmond Aimé Florentin Geffroy Brutus in La Mort de César (tragedy by Voltaire) ca. 1840 hand-colored engraving Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Paul Delaroche Soldier ca. 1847 drawing (study for painting, Charlemagne crossing the Alps) British Museum |
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| William Wetmore Story The Libyan Sibyl 1863 marble Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
from A Letter to a Friend upon the Occasion of the Death of his Intimate Friend
Altho he attained not unto the Years of his Predecessors, yet he wanted not those preserving Virtues which confirm the thread of weaker Constitutions. Cautelous Chastity and crafty Sobriety were far from him; those Jewels were Paragon, without Flaw, Hair, Ice, or Cloud in him: which affords me an hint to proceed in these good Wishes and few Memento's unto you.
Tread softly and circumspectly in this funambulous Track and narrow Path of Goodness: pursue Virtue virtuously: be sober and temperate, not to preserve your Body in a sufficiency to wanton Ends; not to spare your Purse; not to be free from the Infamy of common Transgressors that way, and thereby to balance or palliate obscure and closer Vices; not simply to enjoy Health: by all which you may leaven good Actions, and render Virtues disputable: but in one Word, that you may truly serve God; which every Sickness will tell you, you cannot well do without Health. The sick mans Sacrifice is but a lame Oblation. Pious Treasures laid up in healthful days excuse the defect of sick performances; without which we must needs look back with Anxiety upon the lost opportunities of Health; and may have cause rather to envy than pity the Ends of penitent Malefactors, who go with clear parts unto the last Act of their Lives . . .
– Sir Thomas Browne (1656)