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| Herri met de Bles Landscape with St Jerome ca. 1540 oil on panel Galleria Borghese, Rome |
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| Giovanni Battista Viola Landscape 1613 oil on canvas Galleria Borghese, Rome |
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| Joos de Momper the Younger Mountain Landscape ca. 1620-30 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Johann Jacob Besserer The Road to Emmaus 1654 watercolor and gouache on vellum Kupferstichkabinett, Kunstmuseum Basel |
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| Jacob van Ruisdael Landscape with View of Haarlem ca. 1670 oil on canvas Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Richard van Orley Arcadian Landscape 1702 gouache on vellum Kupferstichkabinett, Kunstmuseum Basel |
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| Benedict Anton Berger View of Dortmund from the South 1804 oil on canvas Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Dortmund |
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| Carl Friedrich Lessing Figures in Landscape with Crags 1827 drawing Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio |
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| Karl Blechen Storm on the Roman Campagna 1829 oil on cardboard Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| P.C. Skovgaard View from Frederiksborg Castle 1842 oil on canvas Ordrupgaard Art Museum, Copenhagen |
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| Edward Lear Mount Parnassus ca. 1849 watercolor on paper Courtauld Gallery, London |
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| Thomas Charles Farrer Buckwheat Field on Thomas Cole's Farm 1863 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Camille Pissarro June Morning, Pontoise 1873 oil on canvas Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe |
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| Eugène Boudin View of Antibes 1893 oil on canvas Detroit Institute of Arts |
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| Hans Thoma Cornfield 1902 oil on canvas Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal |
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| Max Slevogt The Annweilertal near Landau, Palatinate ca. 1918 oil on canvas Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal |
In this passion she went on, till she came to the foote of a great rocke, shee thinking of nothing lesse then ease, sought how she might ascend it; hoping there to passe away her time more peaceably with lonelinesse, though not to find least respit from her sorrow, which so deerely she did value, as by no meanes she would impart it to any. The way was hard, though by some windings making the ascent pleasing. Having attained the top, she saw under some hollow trees the entrie into the rocke: she fearing nothing but the continuance of her ignorance, went in, where she found a pretty roome, as if that stonie place had yet in pitie, given leave for such perfections to come into the heart as chiefest, and most beloved place, because most loving. The place was not unlike the ancient (or the descriptions of ancient) Hermitages, instead of hangings, covered and lined with Ivie, disdaining ought els should come there, that being in such perfection. This richnesse in Natures plentie made her stay to behold it, and almost grudge the pleasant fulnes of content that place might have, if sensible, while she must know the taste of torments.
– from The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania, by the right honourable the Lady Mary Wroath, daughter to the right noble Robert, Earle of Leicester, and neece to the ever famous and renowned Sʳ Phillips Sidney knight, and to ye most excellant Lady Mary Countess of Pembroke, late deceased (London: John Marriott and John Grismand, 1621)