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| Anonymous Austrian Artist Rococo Stiletto in Silhouette ca. 1760 drawing Graphische Sammlung, Zentralbibliothek Zürich |
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| Ignác Bendl Fantastic Ewer ca. 1690 etching Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna |
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| Cornelis Floris the Younger Design for Vessel 1548 engraving Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna |
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| Christoph Melchior Roth Rococo Vase ca. 1760 etching Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig |
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| Martin Schongauer Foliated Ornament ca. 1470-90 engraving Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Albrecht Dürer Design for Double Cup 1526 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Roman Empire Wine Goblet 5th century AD blown glass Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden |
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| Carl Böhlmann Acanthus Ornament ca. 1817-20 drawing Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna |
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| Gilles Demarteau after Romain Girard Rocaille Cartouche ca. 1760-70 etching Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna |
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| Antonio Chichi Model of the Pantheon, Rome ca. 1777-82 cork and wood Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel |
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| Roman Empire Infantry Helmet with Neck-Guard 1st century AD tin-plated bronze (excavated in Germany) Clemens-Sels Museum, Neuss, Germany |
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| Anonymous Artist Design for Candelabrum ca. 1750-1800 drawing Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna |
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| Hans Rogel Venetian Galleon at the Battle of Lepanto 1571 hand-colored woodcut and letterpress Graphische Sammlung, Zentralbibliothek Zürich |
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| Rembrandt van Rijn Shell 1650 etching, engraving and drypoint Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Ekke Abel Kleima Marionette 1932 oil on canvas Groninger Museum, Netherlands |
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| Andy Warhol Brillo Box 1970 screenprint Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
I am the tomb of a shipwrecked man; but set sail, stranger; for when we were lost, the other ships voyaged on.
Why, roaring sea, didst thou not cast me up, Phyleus, son of Amphimenes, when I came to a sad end, far away from the bare beach, so that even wrapped in the evil mist of Hades I might not be near to thee?
Not this earth or this light stone that rests thereon is the tomb of Erasippus, but all this sea whereon thou lookest. For he perished along with his ship, and his bones are rotting somewhere, but where only the gulls can tell.
Unhappy Nicanor, wasted by the grey sea, thou liest naked on a strange beach or perchance near the rocks; gone from thee are thy rich halls, and the hope of all Tyre has perished. None of thy possessions saved thee; alas, poor wight, thou art dead and hast laboured but for the fishes and the sea.
Even in death shall the unappeased sea vex me, Lysis, buried as I am beneath this desert rock, sounding over harshly in my ears close to my deaf tomb. Why, O men, did ye lay me next to her who reft me of breath, who wrecked me, not trading on a merchantman, but embarked on a little rowing-boat? From the sea I sought to gain my living, and from the sea I drew forth death.
I belong entirely to neither now I am dead, but sea and land possess an equal portion of me. My flesh the fishes ate in the sea, but my bones have been washed up on this cold beach.
– from Book VI (Sepulchral Epigrams) of the Greek Anthology, translated and edited by W.R. Paton (1917)