Ornamental

Monogrammist W.H. (German printmaker)
Arms of the Cathedral Chapter of Eichstätt
and of Prince-Bishop Wilhelm von Reichenau
ca. 1484
engraving
British Museum

Monogrammist J.S. with the Shovel
(German printmaker)
Alexander the Great carried aloft by Griffins
before 1537
woodcut
British Museum

Bartolomeo Neroni (il Riccio)
Allegorical Figure
ca. 1555
drawing (study for fresco)
British Museum

Isaac Oliver
Sibyl
ca. 1600
drawing
British Museum

Gilles-Marie Oppenord
Study of Baroque Architectural Details
ca. 1692-99
drawing
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Crescenzio Onofri
Landscape with a distant Village
before 1698
drawing
British Museum

Isaac de Moucheron
Two Women in a Garden
1741
watercolor on paper
British Museum

Gilles-Marie Oppenord
Assembly of the Gods on Mount Olympus
before 1742
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Jean-Marc Nattier
Louis-Joseph-Xavier-François de France, duc de Bourgogne
1754
oil on canvas (detail)
Château de Versailles

John Hamilton Mortimer
Sleeping Monsters
ca. 1770-75
drawing
British Museum

Charles Nègre
Statue at Chartres by Auguste Préault
of Général François-Séverin Marceau
ca. 1855
collodion print from salted paper negative
National Museum of American History,
Washington DC

Adolphe Monticelli
Fête at Herculaneum
ca. 1870
oil on panel
Portland Art Museum, Oregon

Amédée Ozenfant
Nacres
ca. 1926
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Elizabeth Olds
Merry-Go-Round
1940
screenprint
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Olivia Parker
The Chinese Bluebird
1980
dye imbibition print
Art Institute of Chicago

Gabriel Orozco
Tortillas and Bricks
1990
C-print
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Simphiwe Ndzube
Dondolo the Witch Doctor's Assistant
2020
mixed media on canvas
Denver Art Museum

from An Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester

This rich marble doth inter

The honoured wife of Winchester,

A viscount's daughter, an earl's heir,

Besides what her virtues fair

Added to her noble birth

More than she could own from earth,

Summers three times eight save one

She had told; alas too soon,

After so short a time of breath,

To house with darkness and with death. 

                           *

So have I seen some tender slip

Saved with care from winter's nip,

The pride of her carnation train,

Plucked up by some unheedy swain,

Who only thought to crop the flower

New shot up from vernal shower;

But the fair blossom hangs the head

Sideways, as on a dying bed,

And those pearls of dew she wears

Prove to be presaging tears

Which the sad morn had let fall

On her hast'ning funeral.

– John Milton (1631)