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| Stefano della Bella Landscape with Fisherman before 1664 etching Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden |
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| Christian Morgenstern Beeches in Frederiksdal near Copenhagen 1828 oil on paper Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Thomas Fearnley Woodland Path near Lucerne in Switzerland 1839 etching British Museum |
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| Thomas Fearnley Monolith and Trees ca. 1839-40 oil on canvas Morgan Library, New York |
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| Edward Lear The Campagna from Villa Mattei 1841 lithograph Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario |
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| Carleton Watkins The Grizzly Giant, Mariposa Grove, Yosemite 1861 albumen silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Carleton Watkins The Grizzly Giant, Mariposa Grove, Yosemite 1861 albumen silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Max Liebermann Moltke in the Tiergarten ca. 1885 drawing Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden |
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| Gustav Wentzel April 1892 oil on canvas Stortingets Kunstsamling, Oslo |
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| Henri-Joseph Harpignies Path through Wooded Landscape 1909 drawing British Museum |
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| Daniel Garber Hawk's Nest 1917 oil on canvas Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio |
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| Roland Wakelin In the Luxembourg Gardens 1924 oil on panel Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
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| Gerhardt Frankl The Avenue, Bucklebury 1945 drawing British Museum |
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| Norman Carter The Hillside before 1950 oil on panel Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
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| Robertson-Sarah- Sulpician Gardens, Montreal before 1952 oil on panel National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
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| Conniff-Gregory- Canadian Hemlocks 2005 inkjet print Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Tim Maguire Kinglake Panorama 2015 inkjet print Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide |
Paragraphs from Blake's MS. Book concerning his picture
of The Last Judgment, a picture now lost
The Nature of Visionary Fancy, or Imagination, is very little Known, & the Eternal nature & permanence of its ever Existent Images is consider'd as less permanent than the things of Vegetative & Generative Nature; yet the Oak dies as well as the Lettuce, but its Eternal Image & Individuality never dies, but renews by its seed; just so the Imaginative Image returns by the seed of Contemplative Thought; the Writings of the Prophets illustrate these conceptions of the Visionary Fancy by their various sublime & Divine Images as seen in the Worlds of Vision.
This world of Imagination is the world of Eternity; it is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after the death of the Vegetated body. This World of Imagination is Infinite & Eternal, whereas the world of Generation, of Vegetation, is Finite & Temporal. There Exist in that Eternal World the Permanent Realities of Every Thing which we see reflected in this Vegetable Glass of Nature. All Things are comprehended in their Eternal Forms in the divine body of the Saviour, the True Vine of Eternity, the Human Imagination, who appear'd to Me as Coming to Judgment among his Saints & throwing off the Temporal that the Eternal might be Establish'd . . .
– William Blake (ca. 1818)