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| after François Boucher The Sense of Taste (chinoiserie fire-screen) ca. 1750 hand-colored etching Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Matthew Darly The Macaroni Print Shop, London 1772 hand-colored etching British Museum |
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| Carrington Bowles Print Shop, St Paul's Churchyard, London 1774 hand-colored-mezzotint British Museum |
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| Carlo Lasinio after Pietro da Cortona The Silver Age ca. 1780-1800 color mezzotint British Museum |
Some day we will be saying, "That was the time of the sun,
Do you remember its light fell on the slightest twig,
The elderly woman or young astonished girl,
As soon as it touched it gave their color to things,
Kept pace with the galloping horse and stopped when he did,
That unforgettable time when we were still on Earth
Where if we dropped something it made a noise . . ."
– from Regretting the Earth, published in 1934 in French by Jules Supervielle, translated by Patricia Terry in 1975
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| Jean-Baptiste Réveillon Wallpaper ca. 1785 block-printed in France Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| after François Boucher Wallpaper ca. 1840 block-printed in France Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| John Dean after Giovanni Francesco Romanelli Harmony between History and Poetry 1786 hand-colored mezzotint British Museum |
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| Charles Turner Witches in Macbeth 1799 hand-colored mezzotint British Museum |
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| W.B. Walker of London after Carlo Maratti Holy Family 1804 hand-colored mezzotint British Museum |
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| Thomas Rowlandson after Rudolph Ackermann Ancient Greek painting from Herculaneum 1815 hand-colored aquatint with etching Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
Both of the Rowlandson caricatures from the Getty (above and below) were created in order to mock upper class taste in the arts during the Neoclassical heyday of the early 19th century. According to these cartoons, the vogue for representing noble Grecian nudity was really no better than an excuse for the public display of pornography.
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| Thomas Rowlandson after Rudolph Ackermann Don Luigi meets Donna Anna in the Museum 1815 hand-colored aquatint with etching Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Honoré Daumier "We're the ones who made the Revolution, but they're the ones who eat it!" (Two ragmen at Paris print stall) 1830 hand-colored lithograph British Museum |
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| Henri Monnier Interior of Print Shop, Paris before 1877 hand-colored lithograph British Museum |
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| Félix-Hilaire Buhot Funeral Procession on Boulevard de Clichy 1887 etching, aquatint, drypoint National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |