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| Hilla Becher Box Elder Leaf 1965 gelatin silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Adela Dundas A Leaf and Two Berries 1860 watercolor and gouache on paper Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Wilson Bentley Leaf with Frost ca. 1920 gelatin silver print Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Achenbach Foundation) |
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| Ruth Bernhard Two Leaves 1952 gelatin silver print Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Achenbach Foundation) |
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| Eugène Atget Fig Leaves ca. 1910 albumen silver print Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| Anna Atkins Aspidium lobatium 1853 cyanotype Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| Imogen Cunningham Aloe 1925 gelatin silver print San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
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| Eugène Atget Agave du Mexique ca. 1923-25 albumen silver print from glass negative Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Charles Aubry Grapes, Life-Size 1863 albumen silver print Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| Gualtiero Baynes Melon in Giardino di Santa Zita, Florence ca. 1900-1901 oil on panel Palazzo Buonaccorsi, Macerata |
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| Eliot Hodgkin Quinces 1969 oil on board Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Anonymous British Photographer Two Varieties of Grasses ca. 1840 salted paper print Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Imogen Cunningham Tuberose ca. 1920-30 gelatin silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Bertha E. Jaques Wild Lettuce in Bloom ca. 1900 cyanotype Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Achenbach Foundation) |
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| Anonymous British Photographer Immense Tree in a Park ca. 1850 salted paper print Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Barbara Bosworth Purple Beech, Vassar Campus 2003 gelatin silver print Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Sylvette David Pansy Friends ca. 1995 oil on canvas Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin |
Cargoes
Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir
Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine,
With a cargo of ivory,
And apes and peacocks,
Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine.
Stately Spanish galleon coming from the Isthmus,
Dipping through the Tropics by the palm-green shores,
With a cargo of diamonds,
Emeralds, amethysts,
Topazes, and cinnamon, and gold moidores.
Dirty British coaster with a salt-caked smokestack
Butting through the Channel in the mad March days,
With a cargo of Tyne coal,
Road-rail, pig-lead,
Firewood, iron-ware, and cheap tin trays.
– John Masefield (1903)