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| Valenti Angelo Juniper Tree 1952 color etching Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| Anonymous Dutch Photographer Snow-Covered Trees ca. 1900-1910 gelatin silver print Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Charles Reginald Aston Tree Branches ca. 1885 watercolor Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Ross Eugene Braught Banyan and Turpentine Tree 1949 lithograph Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
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| Thomas Cole Tree Trunks ca. 1825-40 drawing National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Margaret Alice Egerton Tree on a Rock at Brantwood, Coniston 1885 drawing British Museum |
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| Constant Alexandre Famin Study of a Birch Tree, Barbizon ca. 1860-80 albumen print Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Netta Peacock Landscape in Snow (Russia) ca. 1905 gelatin silver print Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Mabel A. Royds Trees on a Slope ca. 1933-38 color woodcut Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Achenbach Foundation) |
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| Henry Courtney Selous Study of Trees near Plymouth ca. 1850 drawing Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Dorothy Thornhill Tree Portrait 1947 oil on canvas National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
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| William Turner of Oxford Trees in a Landscape at Dusk ca. 1835 watercolor and gouache on paper Morgan Library, New York |
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| Adriaen Hendricksz Verboom Study of Trees before 1673 drawing Yale University Art Gallery |
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| Brett Weston Untitled (Dead Tree and Birch Grove) 1972 gelatin silver print Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Frank Wilcox Apple Tree before 1964 etching Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Maurice Yochim Trees 1936 linocut Art Institute of Chicago |
from The Botanic Garden
"Winds of the north! restrain your icy gales,
Nor chill the bosom of these happy vales!
Hence in dark heaps, ye gathering clouds, revolve!
Disperse, ye lightnings! and, ye mists, dissolve!
– Hither, emerging from yon orient skies,
Botanic Goddess! bend thy radiant eyes;
O'er these soft scenes assume thy gentle reign,
Pomona, Ceres, Flora in thy train;
O'er the still dawn thy placid smile effuse,
And with thy silver sandals print the dews;
In noon's bright blaze thy vermil vest unfold,
And wave thy emerald banner starred with gold."
Thus spoke the Genius, as he stepped along,
And bade these lawns to Peace and Truth belong;
Down the steep slopes he led with modest skill
The willing pathway and the truant rill,
Stretched o'er the marshy vale yon willowy mound
Where shines the lake amid the tufted ground,
Raised the young woodland, smoothed the wavy green,
And gave to Beauty all the quiet scene.
She comes! – the Goddess! – through the whispering air,
Bright as the morn descends her blushing car;
Each circling wheel a wreath of flowers entwines,
And gemmed with flowers the silken harness shines;
The golden bits with flowery studs are decked,
And knots of flowers the crimson reins connect. –
And now on earth the silver axle rings,
And the shell sinks upon its slender springs;
Light from her airy seat the Goddess bounds,
And steps celestial press the pansied grounds.
– Erasmus Darwin (1789)