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| Charles Holroyd Yew Tree in Glaramara before 1917 etching and drypoint Yale Center for British Art |
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| Coutts Lindsay Oak Tree ca. 1850 salted paper print Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| John Linnell Study of a Tree 1806 oil on panel Tate Gallery |
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| Samuel Palmer The Willow 1850 etching Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Beatrix Potter Tree Trunk at the Edge of a Wood ca. 1890-1910 watercolor Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Rupert Potter (father of Beatrix Potter) View of Esthwaite Water from Eeswyke near Sawrey 1900 albumen print Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| David Roberts The Holy Tree of Metereeah 1854 lithograph Yale Center for British Art |
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| Thomas Matthews Rooke Kensington Gardens ca. 1890 watercolor British Museum |
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| Horatio Ross Lone Pine Tree ca. 1858 albumen print Yale Center for British Art |
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| Anne Rushout Three Figures standing beneath a Large Tree ca. 1824-32 watercolor Yale Center for British Art |
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| Paul Sandby Tree with Figure crossing a Footbridge ca. 1785 watercolor Yale Center for British Art |
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| John Golden Short Big Tree ca. 1870-80 albumen print Yale Center for British Art |
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| Alfred Thornton Painswick near Stroud, Gloucestershire ca. 1910 drawing British Museum |
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| George Augustus Wallis Tree Foliage before 1847 oil on paper, mounted on canvas Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| James Ward Study of a Tree ca. 1810 drawing, with watercolor Yale Center for British Art |
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| George Washington Wilson Silver Fir Tree at Dunkeld ca. 1870 albumen prints (stereograph) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
The Combe
The Combe was ever dark, ancient and dark.
Its mouth is stopped with bramble, thorn, and briar;
And no one scrambles over the sliding chalk
By beech and yew and perishing juniper
Down the half precipices of its sides, with roots
And rabbit holes for steps. The sun of Winter,
The moon of Summer, and all the singing birds
Except the missel-thrush that loves juniper,
Are quite shut out. But far more ancient and dark
The Combe looks since they killed the badger there,
Dug him out and gave him to the hounds,
That most ancient Briton of English beasts.
– Edward Thomas (ca. 1917)