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| Anonymous French Artist La Chambre des Députés à Paris ca. 1820 watercolor Bibliothèque historique de la ville de Paris |
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| Joseph Mallord William Turner Petworth - South Wall of the Square Dining Room 1827 watercolor and gouache Tate Britain |
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| Joseph Mallord William Turner Petworth - The Red Room 1827 watercolor and gouache Tate Britain |
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| Joseph Mallord William Turner Petworth - The White and Gold Room (with Van Dyck portraits) 1827 watercolor and gouache Tate Britain |
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| Charles Robert Leslie Petworth - Corner of a Room ca. 1856 watercolor British Museum |
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| Charles Robert Leslie Petworth - Table with Blue and White China ca. 1856 watercolor British Museum |
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| Paul Musurus Studio of George Richmond ca. 1855-65 drawing British Museum |
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| John Simpson The Blue Room, Windsor Castle (domestic shrine to the recently deceased Prince Albert) 1863 enamel on porcelain Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Alfred Coe Chantry Drawing Room ca. 1900 oil on canvas Colchester and Ipswich Museums, Essex |
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| William Blake Richmond Hera in the House of Hephaistos 1902 oil on canvas Indianapolis Museum of Art |
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| Vilhelm Hammershøi Interior with an Easel 1912 oil on canvas Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Robert Sargent Austin Bell at Wareham, Dorset 1927 etching and stipple-engraving Yale Center for British Art |
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| Alexander Brook The Children's Lunch 1928 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Henri Matisse Interior with an Etruscan Vase 1940 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| John Szarkowski Screen Door - Hudson, Wisconsin 1949 gelatin silver print Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Frank Auerbach Study for In the Studio 2000-2002 drawing (pencil, crayon, felt-tip pen) British Museum |
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| Alec Soth Sugar's - Davenport, Iowa 2002 C-print Minneapolis Institute of Art |
To Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland
(only surviving child of Sir Philip Sidney)
That poets are far rarer births than kings
Your noblest father proved; like whom before,
Or then, or since, about our Muses' springs,
Came not that soul exhausted so their store.
Hence was it that the destinies decreed
(Save that most masculine issue of his brain)
No male unto him; who could so exceed
Nature, they thought, in all that he would fain.
At which she, happily displeased, made you,
On whom, if he were living now to look,
He should those rare and absolute numbers view,
As he would burn or better far his book.
– Ben Johnson (ca. 1600)