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| Dominicus Custos after Franz Aspruck Archangel Raphael before 1612 engraving Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig |
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| Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki Macduff joining Malcolm (illustration to Shakespeare's Macbeth) 1784 etching Herzog August Bibliothek, Wulfenbüttel |
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| Rhoda Cook The Favorite Rabbit ca. 1800 watercolor on paper Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, West Virginia |
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| Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg Aqueduct at Arcueil near Paris 1812 oil on canvas David Collection, Copenhagen |
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| Karl Blechen Tiberius Rocks at Capri ca. 1828-29 oil on paper, mounted on canvas Landesmuseum, Hannover |
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| Ignatz Marcel Gaugengigl And Drive Dull Care Away 1883 etching New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut |
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| Rudolf Konopa Portrait of art collector Hugo Reisinger ca. 1895 watercolor on paper Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Frank Hurley Penguins on the Beach at The Nuggets and the remains of The Gratitude 1911 carbon print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Martin Munkácsi Aldous Huxley in California ca. 1940 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Sanford Low Polish Peddler (The Vegetable Man) ca. 1940 watercolor on paper New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut |
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| Ralph Eugene Meatyard Untitled (Child with Mask) ca. 1959 gelatin silver print Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Pedro Guerrero Alexander Calder's Mailbox 1963 gelatin silver print Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
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| Jim Sharpe Patty Hearst 1975 oil and lacquer on board (commissioned by Time magazine) National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Pravoslav Sovák Small Museum Sheet - Degas ca. 1985 color aquatint Kunsthalle Mannheim |
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| Jennifer Bartlett Air: 24 Hours, Eleven A.M. ca. 1991-92 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Sigmar Polke The Three Lies of Painting 1995 lithograph Walker Art Center, Minneapolis |
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| Reinier Lucassen The Last Smoker 2017 found painting with modifications Kunstmuseum, The Hague |
Hamsun writes, toward the end of the book, that in a hundred years, all of this – what he did during the war, his trial, the verdict – will be forgotten. I would guess that already now, after nearly eighty years, it is forgotten by most people, as the older generations who did care have died and the younger ones hardly know what a Nazi was. And I'm sure he is right that in 2048, one hundred years after, given all that the people of this imperiled earth will have to contend with just to survive, surely almost no one will give a thought to Knut Hamsun – maybe no one will ever think of him again. I read somewhere – where? – that at the very end of the human era, our entire civilization – all of it, towering monuments and historic ruins – will be compressed down to the thickness, on the surface of the earth, of a piece of cigarette paper.
– Lydia Davis, from Into the Weeds (Yale University Press, 2025)