Ornamental

Albrecht Dürer
Emblematic Designs for Columns
1500
ink and watercolor on paper
British Museum

Albrecht Dürer
Emblematic Designs for Ornamental Swags
ca. 1515-20
ink on paper
British Museum

Georg Flegel
Still Life with Leg of Veal
ca. 1615-20
oil on canvas
Kunstmuseum, Basel

Ciro Ferri
Design for Decoration of Villa Borghese in Rome
ca. 1671
drawing
Kupferstichkabinett, Hamburger Kunsthalle

Giovanni Battista Gaulli (il Baciccio)
Putti supporting Wreath
ca. 1672-75
drawing
(study for cupola fresco, Chiesa del Gesù, Rome)
British Museum

Antonio Gherardi
Design for Sepulchral Monument
ca. 1675
drawing
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Antonio Gherardi
Design for Altar
1680
drawing
Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf

Giovanni Battista Foggini
Design for Gilt-Bronze Stand
ca. 1680-1700
drawing
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Paul Fourdrinier after William Kent
Design for Chimney-Piece at Houghton Hall, Norfolk
1735
etching and engraving
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Paul Fourdrinier after William Kent
Design for Ceiling at Houghton Halm, Norfolk
1735
etching and engraving
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Paul Fourdrinier after James Gibbs
Design for Staircase in the Radcliffe Library, Oxford
1747
etching and engraving
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Simon Fokke
Portrait of a Man displayed by Allegorical Figures
1746
etching and engraving
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Georges de Feure
Retour
1897
lithograph
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Arnold Genthe
Garden Portrait of J.P. Morgan with Six Ladies
ca. 1912
autochrome
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Una Foster
Small Ink Pattern Sketch
ca. 1935-40
drawing
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Ivor Francis
Christmas
1973
oil on board
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Janet Fish
Painted Water Glasses
1974
oil on canvas
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Madrigal

Unhappy light,

Do not approach to bring the woeful day,

When I must bid for aye

Farewell to her, and live in endless plight.

Fair moon, with gentle beams

The sight who never mars,

Long clear heaven's sable vault; and you, bright stars, 

Your golden locks long glass in Earth's pure streams;

Let Phoebus never rise

To dim your watchful eyes:

    Prolong, alas! prolong my short delight,

    And if ye can, make an eternal night.

– William Drummond of Hawthornden (ca. 1614)