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| Amelia Long, Lady Farnborough Trees in Norbury Park before 1794 etching Tate Gallery |
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| Joseph Mallord William Turner Landscape with Oak, Norbury Park, Surrey ca. 1796 watercolor Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Anne Hammond The Tree, Stowe, Buckinghamshire 1987 C-print Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Benjamin Pouncy after Thomas Hearne An Oak in Moccas Park, Herefordshire ca. 1798 etching and engraving British Museum |
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| Benjamin Pouncy after Thomas Hearne The Chestnut Tree at Wymondeley Parva, Hertfordshire 1798 etching and engraving British Museum |
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| George Washington Wilson Trees on the grounds at Dunkeld ca. 1870 albumen print Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Frederick W. Watts At South Mickleham 1829 oil on board Yale Center for British Art |
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| Henry Courtney Selous Beech Tree in Penshurst Park 1830 watercolor British Museum |
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| Francis Towne Trees by the Lake, Peamore Park, Devon ca. 1790-1810 watercolor Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Benjamin Brecknell Turner Pepperharrow Park, Surrey ca. 1852-54 albumen silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Rupert Potter (father of Beatrix Potter) View from Eeswyke near Sawrey 1896 albumen print Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Francis Bedford Cedar at Warwick Castle ca. 1860-70 albumen print Yale Center for British Art |
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| Wallace Hooper Willoughby Tree ca. 1870 albumen silver print Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Roger Fenton Study of Tree ca. 1856-58 albumen silver print Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Claude Lorrain Tree at the Villa Madama, Rome ca. 1638 drawing British Museum |
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| Becky Cohen Bare Square-Cut Allée, Parc de Sceaux 1994-95 gelatin silver print Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
A Shadow on the Wall
A shadow on the wall
boughs stirred by the noonday wind
that's enough earth
and for the eye
enough celestial participation.
How much further do you want to go? Refuse
the bossy insistence
of new impressions –
lie there still,
behold your own fields,
your estate,
dwelling especially
on the poppies,
unforgettable
because they transported the summer –
where did it go?
– Gottfried Benn (1886-1956), translated by Michael Hofmann (2011)