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| George Scharf Some of the pictures exhibited at the New Society of Painters in Watercolour (London) 1834 watercolor British Museum |
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| Thomas Rowlandson A Book Auction ca. 1810-15 watercolor Yale Center for British Art |
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| Edward Francis Burney Homage to Nelson ca. 1805 watercolor Yale Center for British Art |
from Marmion
The vernal sun new life bestows
Even on the meanest flower that blows;
But vainly, vainly may he shine
Where glory weeps o'er NELSON'S shrine;
And vainly pierce the solemn gloom,
That shrouds, O PITT, thy hallowed tomb!
Deep graved in every British heart,
O never let those names depart.
Say to your sons, – Lo, here his grave,
Who victor died on Gadite wave;
To him, as to the burning levin,
Short, bright, resistless course was given;
Where'er his country's foes were found,
Was heard the fated thunder's sound,
Till burst the bolt on yonder shore,
Rolled, blazed, destroyed, – and was no more.
– Sir Walter Scott (1808)
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| Thomas Rowlandson The Connoisseur ca. 1780-1800 watercolor Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Edward Francis Burney Crome Court near Severnstoke, Worcestershire (canal in foreground with musicians on a barge) before 1796 watercolor British Museum |
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| Thomas Rowlandson Nymphs at a Roman Bath before 1827 watercolor Yale Center for British Art |
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| Thomas Rowlandson Landscape before 1827 watercolor Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Thomas Rowlandson Portrait study of John Philip Kemble (actor/manager, and brother of Mrs Siddons) ca. 1790-1800 watercolor Yale Center for British Art |
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| Princess Alice (2nd daughter of Queen Victoria) Marie Antoinette in prison 1860 watercolor Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Thomas Rowlandson Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire with music book and her sister Harriet, Viscountess Duncannon, later Countess of Bessborough, and musician 1790 watercolor Yale Center for British Art |
Then the Count began afresh: My Lords, he said, I am not pleased with the young man if he is not also a musician, and if, besides his cunning upon the book, he have not skill in like manner on sundry instruments. There is no ease of labor more honest and more praiseworthy, especially at court, where many things are taken in hand to please women, whose tender breasts are soon pierced with melody.
Then the Lord Gasper: I believe music, he said, together with other vanities, is mete for women, also for them that have the likeness of men, but not for them that be men indeed, who ought not with such delicacies womanize their minds and so bring themselves to dread death.
– from The First Booke of the Courtyer of Count Baldesar Castilio, as translated by Thomas Hoby (1561)
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| George Scharf Entrance Hall, Royal Academy, Somerset House (with casts of famous antique statues) 1836 watercolor British Museum |
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| Edward Francis Burney Proteus and the Courtier ca. 1790-1810 watercolor British Museum |
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| James Gillray Study of Naval Uniforms (Warrant Officer, Master's Mate, Midshipman) ca. 1772-94 watercolor British Museum |
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| Arthur Melville Dancers at the Moulin Rouge 1889 watercolor National Galleries of Scotland |