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| Dieric Bouts St Christopher 1465 oil on panel Alte Pinakothek, Munich |
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| Hieronymous Bosch St Christopher carrying the Christ Child ca. 1500 oil on panel Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Canaletto Riva degli Schiavone, Venice ca. 1735-40 oil on canvas Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| George Catlin Rock Island - United States Garrison 1835-36 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| James S. Baillie The Fisherman's Dog ca. 1850 hand-colored lithograph National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
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| William Bradford Coastal Rocks, Nahant - a Sketch ca. 1855-65 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
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| Adolphe Appian Pont de Hauteville 1870 etching Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario |
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| Ralph Wormeley Curtis Return-from-the-Lido- 1884 oil on canvas Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston |
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| Aubrey Beardsley The Lady of the Lake (illustration for Le Morte d'Arthur) 1893-84 lithograph Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| William Merritt Chase Idle Hours ca. 1894 oil on canvas Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| John Chislett Stream, Early Spring ca. 1900 platinum print Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| George Bellows Vine-clad Shore, Monhegan Island 1913 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Henri-Eugène Callot Harbor and Rocks ca. 1920 oil on canvas Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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| Milton Avery Sea Gazers 1956 oil on canvas Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Seymour Chwast La Virée Superbe - Peugeot (poster for Tour de France) 1978 offset lithograph Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Alex Colville Woman, Dog and Canoe 1982 screenprint Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick |
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| Maurice Cohen Venetian Gondola 2004 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
I need a virgin mirror
no one's ever looked at,
that's never looked back at anyone,
to flash up the spirits' eyes
and help me recognize them.
The storekeeper offered me
a box of little mirrors,
but each time I picked one up
a neighbor looked over my shoulder
and that one was spoiled –
spoiled, that is, for anything
but the girls to look at their mouths in,
to examine their teeth and smiles.
– Elizabeth Bishop (1960)