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| James Gillray Ministerial Eloquence (William Pitt the Younger) 1795 hand-colored etching British Museum |
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| Jean-Honoré Fragonard Girl Reading ca. 1769 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| James Gillray Bar Eloquence (Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine) 1795 hand-colored etching British Museum |
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| Jean-Honoré Fragonard Portrait of Anne François d'Harcourt, duc de Beuvron ca. 1770 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| James Gillray Military Eloquence (Frederick Augustus, Duke of York) 1795 hand-colored etching British Museum |
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| Jean-Honoré Fragonard Portrait of artist Charles Paul Jérôme Bréa ca. 1769 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| James Gillray Opposition Eloquence (Charles James Fox) 1795 hand-colored etching British Museum |
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| Jean-Honoré Fragonard Portrait of Marie Anne Éléonore, comtesse de Grave 1769 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| James Gillray Naval Eloquence (William Henry, Duke of Clarence) 1795 hand-colored etching British Museum |
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| Jean-Honoré Fragonard Portrait présumé de Louis François Prault ca. 1769 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| James Gillray Pulpit Eloquence (John Moore, Archbishop of Canterbury) 1795 hand-colored etching British Museum |
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| Jean-Honoré Fragonard Rinaldo in the Garden of Armida (scene from Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata) ca. 1760-70 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| James Gillray Fool's Eloquence (James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale) 1795 hand-colored etching British Museum |
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| Jean-Honoré Fragonard The Shepherdess ca. 1750-52 oil on canvas Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin |
It is delightful to repose on the wisdom of the ancients; to have some great name at hand, besides one's own initials always staring one in the face; to travel out of one's self into the Chaldee, Hebrew, and Egyptian characters; to have the palm-trees waving mystically in the margin of the page, and the camels moving slowly on in the distance of three thousand years. In that dry desert of learning, we gather strength and patience, and a strange and insatiable thirst of knowledge. The ruined monuments of antiquity are also there, and the fragments of buried cities (under which the adder lurks) and cool springs, and green sunny spots, and the whirlwind and the lion's roar, and the shadow of angelic wings.
– William Hazlitt (1778-1830)