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| Sydney Prior Hall Gladstone Reading ca. 1890 gouache National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Odalisque ca. 1824-34 oil on canvas Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Gustave Moreau Hélène Glorifiée ca. 1890 oil on canvas Musée Gustave Moreau, Paris |
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| Will Hicok Low Keats' Last Sonnet 1887 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Owen Jones Luxor before 1874 watercolor British Museum |
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| Thomas Duncan Study of Casts of Famous Antique Sculptures ca. 1830 oil on canvas Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture, Edinburgh |
from Xian of Eight Rivers
Everything is reflected:
an unimaginable number of movements,
of patterns, thoughts, images,
of which we see the copies in immense numbers,
but never the originals.
– Curzio Malaparte (1898-1957), translated by Walter Murch (2012)
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| Henry Fuseli Lady Macbeth with the Daggers 1812 oil on canvas Tate Britain |
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| Caspar David Friedrich Window Overlooking a Park ca. 1810-11 watercolor Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Honoré Daumier The Amateurs ca. 1865-68 watercolor Walters Art Museum, Baltimore |
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| Thomas Barker Three Girls Asleep under a Tent - Morning ca. 1815 oil on canvas Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Louis-Léopold Boilly Girl at a Window ca. 1800-1820 oil on canvas National Gallery, London |
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| Jacobus Ludovicus Cornet The Room of Cornelis de Witt in Prison, the Gevangenpoort, the Hague 1844 watercolor Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Edward Burne-Jones Cupid's Hunting Fields 1880 oil on canvas Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Alfred George Stevens Lower Limbs of Ornamental Figure ca. 1860 oil on canvas Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Samuel Prout Stonehenge ca. 1805 watercolor Victoria & Albert Museum, London |