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| Martin Schongauer Woman fanning Flames with Bird's Wing ca. 1470-75 drawing British Museum |
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| Jacopo Ripanda Scene from Roman History ca. 1505-1507 drawing British Museum |
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| Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Meldolla) Mars ca. 1550 etching British Museum |
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| Jonas Silber Landscape with Dolphins and Ducks in a Lake ca. 1572-90 engraving (decorative design for metalwork drinking vessel) British Museum |
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| Sebastian Stoskopff Still Life representing the Four Elements ca. 1640 oil on canvas Kunstmuseum Basel |
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| Bernardo Strozzi after Jacopo Bassano Pastoral Scene before 1641 drawing British Museum |
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| Herman Saftleven Study of Nightshade 1683 watercolor on paper British Museum |
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| Sebastiano Ricci Apotheosis of a Military Figure ca. 1714 drawing (study for ceiling painting) British Museum |
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| Thomas Stothard The Enchanted Garden (illustration to Boccaccio's Decameron) 1825 watercolor on paper British Museum |
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| Wilhelm von Schadow Portrait of Agnes Rauch ca. 1825 oil on canvas Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Max Rosenthal Caricature of Edwin Forrest as Star Fish 1851 chromolithograph National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Charles Ricketts Centaur and Sleeping Woman (print study for The Dial) 1893 drawing British Museum |
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| William Strang Ex Libris - Edward Stainer 1894 etching British Museum |
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| William Heath Robinson Spring Cleaning on Noah's Ark (print study for The Bystander) 1925 ink and watercolor on paper British Museum |
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| Donald Sultan Butterfly 1996 hand-colored screenprint National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Amy Stevens Confections #58 2007 C-print Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick |
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| Emily Sundblad Because he's alone a sailor is always telling himself who he is 2011 oil on canvas Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
from In Praise of Women in General
He is a parricide to his mother's name,
And with an impious hand murders her fame,
That wrongs the praise of women: that dares write
Libels on saints, or with foul ink requite
The milk they lent us. Better sex, command
To your defence my more religious hand
At sword, or pen: yours was the nobler birth,
For you of man were made, man but of earth,
The son of dust; and though your sin did breed
His fall, again you raised him in your seed:
Adam in 's sleep a gainful loss sustained,
That for one rib a better self regained;
Who, had he not your blest creation seen,
An anchorite in paradise had been.
– Thomas Randolph (published 1638)