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| Scipione Pulzone Portrait of Cardinal Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle 1576 oil on copper Courtauld Gallery, London |
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| Denys Calvaert The Visitation ca. 1585-95 oil on copper National Trust, Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire |
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| workshop of Carlo Saraceni Young Warrior asleep in a Wooded Landscape ca. 1605-1610 oil on copper Glasgow Museums |
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| Jan Brueghel the Elder River Landscape ca. 1606 oil on copper Wellington Collection, Apsley House, London |
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| Hendrick van Steenwyck the Younger Man kneeling before a Woman in the Courtyard of a Renaissance Palace ca. 1610 oil on copper National Gallery, London |
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| attributed to Johann König Virgin and Child with young St John the Baptist ca. 1620 oil on copper Grosvenor Museum, Chester |
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| Cornelis van Poelenburgh Bearded Man leaning on a Staff ca. 1627-67 oil on copper National Trust, Hatchlands, Surrey |
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| attributed to Simon Vouet The Conversion of the Magdalen (Martha reproving Mary) ca. 1640 oil on copper Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow |
from Second Thoughts
1862: Dante Gabriel Rossetti buried his young wife Elizabeth Rossetti with
a sheaf of his unpublished poems.
. . . and now I'm reading about the night that shady London dandy
Charles Augustus Howell (1869) unshoveled the grave
at Highgate, broke the coffin, and looted her bone breast
of "the book in question, bound in rough gray calf, and with
red edges to the leaves," on eager orders from Rossetti
– who'd had second thoughts in seven years, deciding
to publish now a volume of his verses (1870, Poems).
Lizzie's death-stenched pages were saturated
with disinfectant by a medical practitioner "who
is drying them leaf by leaf" – and then they joined the world
of woven radish baskets, bobbered fishing skeins, and god dolls
in their second life as art on a museum wall; a world where
the "conversion pool" saw swimmers step in white robes
from its farthest end, reborn to a new religion; and the lumbering
land animals said no, and gave up legs, and so their legs rolled up
like stored-away and useless rugs inside them, and they returned
to the waters, and birthed and breached in the waters,
and made the waters their orchestral glory,
and spouted out their great Ionic columns of air and water
in the touch of the changing mind of Earth,
that's sunlit at times
and at other times darkened.
– Albert Goldbarth (2001)
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| Gerard ter Borch Swearing of the Oath of Ratification of the Treaty of Münster 1648 oil on copper National Gallery, London |
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| Charles Le Brun Descent from the Cross ca. 1650 oil on copper Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear |
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| attributed to Giovanni Battista Albani Group of Figures carrying Statuettes before 1661 oil on copper Ulster Museum, Belfast |
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| Donato Creti Pastoral Landscape with Figures before 1749 oil on copper Ulster Museum, Belfast |
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| Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée Philosophy Unveiling Truth 1771 oil on copper National Trust, Stourhead, Wiltshire |
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| Anonymous British Artist The Prisoner early 19th century oil on copper Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Victor Hume Moody The End of Summer ca. 1920 oil and tempera on copper National Trust, Anglesey Abbey, Cambridge |