Ornamental

Giulio Campagnola
Child with Cats
ca. 1510-15
engraving
British Museum

Hanns Lautensack
Landscape with Castle on a Height
1553
etching
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich

Luca Cambiaso
Ornamental Figure with Hammer
before 1585
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Anonymous Venetian Printmaker
Portrait of Emanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy
ca. 1580-1600
hand-colored woodcut
British Museum

Sébastien Le Clerc the Elder
Title-page Vignette honoring Emperor Charles V
ca. 1660
drawing (print study)
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden

François Le Moyne
Head of Hebe
ca. 1734
colored chalks on paper
(study for painting, Apotheosis of Hercules)
British Museum

Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain
Temple of Venus, erected for fireworks display
celebrating the birth of an Heir to the King of the Two Sicilies
1747
etching
British Museum

Étienne de Lavallée
Detail of Ornamental Fresco in Rome
ca. 1780
drawing
British Museum

Henri Lehmann
La Science
1873
drawing
(study for ceiling painting)
British Museum

Henri Lehmann
L'Industrie
1873
drawing
(study for ceiling painting)
British Museum

Heinrich Campendonk
The Yellow Animal
ca. 1914
oil on canvas
Kunstmuseum, The Hague

Clare Leighton
Young Ferns
ca. 1950
wood-engraving
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

Ivan Chermayeff
North Cascades - State of Washington
1972
lithograph (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Helen Levitt
New York
1976
Ektaflex print
Smithsonian American Art Museum,
Washington DC

Seymour Chwast
The Brooklyn Children's Museum
1977
lithograph (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Peter Levine
The Vise by Luigi Pirandello at California Institute of the Arts
1979
screenprint and letterpress (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Tibor Kalman
Maira Kalman at The Art Space, Ginza
ca. 1985
offset-lithograph (invitation)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Against the king, sir, now why would ye fight?

Forsooth, because he dubbed me not a knight.

And ye, my lords, why arm yet against Charles?

Because of lords he would not make us earls.

Earls, why do ye lead forth these angry bands?

Because we will not quit the Church's lands.

Most holy churchmen, what is your intent?

The king our stipends largely did augment.

Commons, to tumult thus how are ye driven?

Our priests say fighting is the way to heaven.

Are these just cause of war, good brethren, grant?

Him plunder! He ne'er swore our Covenant.

– William Drummond of Hawthornden (ca. 1645)