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| Anonymous Spanish Artist The Bonfire ca. 1850 oil on tin Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| William Edward Frost The Three Graces 1856 oil on canvas Yale Center for British Art |
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| François-Nicolas Chifflart Queen Zenobia thrown into the River Araxes 1856 drawing (study for painting) Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Constantin Guys A Carriage in London ca. 1856 drawing, with watercolor Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Constantin Guys Fashion Illustration ca. 1858 drawing, with watercolor Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Arnold Böcklin Italian Landscape with a Bridge ca. 1858 oil on canvas Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
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| Pierre Puvis de Chavannes Ecce Homo ca. 1858 drawing (study for painting) Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| James McNeill Whistler Finette 1859 etching British Museum |
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| Dióscoro Puebla Episodio de una Bacanal 1860 oil on canvas Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Théodore Caruelle d'Aligny The Bathers - Souvenir of the Banks of the Anio River at Tivoli ca. 1860-61 oil on panel Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Samuel Palmer Tintern Abbey at Sunset 1861 watercolor and gouache Yale Center for British Art |
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| Théodule Ribot Le Garçon de Cuisine ca. 1865 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Théodule Ribot St Vincent 1867 oil on canvas Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille |
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| Ephraim Hausman Coverlet 1868 cotton and wool Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Gustave Doré The Neophyte (First Experience of the Monastery) ca. 1866-68 oil on canvas Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
The promised day was come, the time of fates
was full, when Turnus' outrage called the Mother
to drive the torches off her sacred ships.
And first upon all eyes a strange light glittered,
and from the east a giant storm cloud seemed
to race across the skies. Idaean choirs
were thundering: an awesome voice ran through
the air, filling the Trojan and Rutulian
armies with terror: "Teucrians, do not
take weapons in your hands, do not defend
my fleet; it is far easier for Turnus
to burn the seas that touch my sacred pines.
Go free, my ships: go, you sea goddesses;
the mother of the gods now gives this order."
And on the instant all the ships have ripped
their cables off the banks and with their beaks,
like dolphins, dived to seek the deep; and then
as many virgin shapes – amazing omen –
rise up to ride the sea as, just before,
were brazen prows lined up along the shore.
– the Trojan fleet transformed, from Book IX of Virgil's Aeneid, translated by Allen Mandelbaum (1971)