Ornamental

Albrecht Dürer
Lily of the Valley and Bugle Flower
ca. 1502-1507
watercolor and gouache on paper
(study for oil painting)
British Museum

Suzanne de Court
Dido appealing to Juno as Aeneas departs
(mirror back)
ca. 1600
enamel on copper
British Museum

Suzanne de Court
Love Motto and Amorini
(mirror back)
ca. 1600
enamel on copper
British Museum

Stefano della Bella
Opera Costume for Nymph
before 1664
ink and watercolor on paper
British Museum

Stefano della Bella
Opera Costume for Singing Fool
before 1664
ink and watercolor on paper
British Museum

Abraham van Diepenbeeck
Angels crowning the Host
before 1675
drawing
British Museum

Noël Coypel
Design for Thesis Dedication
ca. 1678
oil on paper (grisaille)
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe

Benigno Bossi after Ennemond-Alexandre Petitot
Design for Vase with Embracing Merfolk
1764
etching
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Mary Delany
Amaryllis Belladonna
1775
collage, watercolor and gouache on paper
British Museum

Rudolf Eickemeyer
Group of Girls under Paper Umbrella
ca. 1895
platinum print
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Walter Crane
Ex Libris - E. Alec Tweedie
ca. 1896
drawing (design for bookplate)
British Museum

Joe Duffy
Duffy Design - Graphic Results
ca. 1985
screenprint (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Joe Duffy and Sara Ledgard
Chaps - Ralph Lauren
ca. 1987
screenprint
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Joe Duffy
Communication Artists of New Mexico
1988
screenprint (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Phillip Doggett-Williams
The Capital
1987
lithograph
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Seymour Chwast
Design Talk
1995
screenprint (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Sonnet

As when it happeneth that some lovely town

Unto a barbarous besieger falls,

Who there by sword and flame himself instals,

And, cruel, it in tears and blood doth drown;

Her beauty spoiled, her citizens made thralls,

His spite yet so cannot her all throw down,

But that some statue, arch, fane of renown

Yet lurks unmaimed within her weeping walls:

So, after all the spoil, disgrace, and wrack

That time, the world, and death could bring combined,

Amidst the mass of ruins they did make,

Safe and all scarless yet remains my mind:

    From this so high transcending rapture springs,

    That I, all else defaced, not envy kings. 

– William Drummond of Hawthornden (1623)