Ham

Bernardo Zenale
St Peter
ca. 1510-12
oil on panel (altarpiece fragment)
Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama

Marco Dente
Virgin and Child enthroned
with Bishop-Saint and St Joseph
before 1527
engraving
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich

Correggio (Antonio Allegri)
The Nativity
before 1534
drawing
(formerly owned by the painter Peter Lely)
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Cornelis van Haarlem
Massacre of the Innocents
1591
oil on canvas
(central panel of triptych with wings by Maarten van Heemskerck)
Mauritshuis, The Hague on long-term loan to Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem

Lucas Cranach the Younger
Portrait of a Man
1546
oil on panel
National Museum, Warsaw

Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini)
Julius Caesar restoring Cleopatra to the Throne of Egypt
ca. 1637
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon

Michele Desubleo (Michele Fiammingo)
Portrait of abbot Giovanni da Parma
ca. 1670
oil on canvas
Galleria Nazionale di Parma

Simon Fokke
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Johann Franz Buddeus
conducting a Philosophical Discussion
1739
etching
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel

Gaspare Diziani
Group of Orientals
before 1767
drawing
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

François-Hubert Drouais
Portrait of Louis XV [near death]
1773
oil on canvas
Château de Versailles

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Portrait of Louise Harduin at age 15
1831
oil on canvas
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Josef Danhauser
Half-Length Study of a Woman
1839
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

David Cox
Landscape with Shepherd
before 1859
oil on paper (sketch)
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea

Wilhelm Füssli after Agnolo Bronzino
Portrait of a Woman
ca. 1863-65
drawing
Graphische Sammlung, Zentralbibliothek Zürich

Gustave Courbet
Le Ruisseau du Puits Noir
ca. 1865
oil on canvas
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas

Meyer Isaac de Haan
Still Life with Ham
ca. 1889
oil on canvas
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Tom Young
Christ
2003
gelatin silver print
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut

from Frenzy

Then was I cast from out my state;

    Two fiends of darkness led my way;

They waked me early, watched me late,

    My dread by night, my plague by day!

Oh! I was made their sport, their play,

    Through many a stormy troubled year;

And how they used their passive prey

    Is sad to tell: – but you shall hear.

                            *                                                        

Those fiends upon a shaking fen

    Fixed me, in dark tempestuous night;

There never trod the foot of men,

    There flocked the fowl in wintry flight;

There danced the moor's deceitful light

    Above the pool where sedges grow;

And when the morning-sun shone bright,

    It shone upon a field of snow.

They hung me on a bough so small,

    The rook could build her nest no higher;

They fixed me on the trembling ball

    That crowns the steeple's quivering spire;

They set me where the seas retire

    But drown with their returning tide;

And made me flee the mountain's fire,

    When rolling from its burning side. 

                            *

I've furled in storms the flapping sail,

    By hanging from the topmast-head;

I've served the vilest slaves in jail,

    And picked the dunghill's spoil for bread;

I've made the badger's hole my bed,

    I've wandered with a gipsy crew;

I've dreaded all the guilty dread,

    And done what they would fear to do.

– George Crabbe (1810)