Ornamental

Giulio Campi
Classical Frieze with Trophies and Prisoners
(study for Triumphal Arch for entrance of Emperor Charles V into Cremona)
1541
drawing
British Museum

Simon de Colines (printer)
Ornamental Title Page to De Mundi Sphaera
1542
woodcut and letterpress
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

Benvenuto Cellini
Design for Seal for Accademia del Disegno in Florence
(six different Cellini designs for this seal have survived)
ca. 1562
drawing
British Museum

attributed to Angelo Michele Colonna
Allegorical Figure in Flight
before 1687
drawing
British Museum

Charles Michel-Ange Challe
Stage Design with Classical Architecture
ca. 1760-70
drawing
British Museum

Benigno Bossi after Ennemond-Alexandre Petitot
Mascarade à la Grecque - Berger
1771
etching
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Benigno Bossi after Ennemond-Alexandre Petitot
Mascarade à la Grecque - Sacerdotesse
1771
etching
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

John Sell Cotman
Classical Sarcophagus in a Garden
1806
watercolor on paper
British Museum

Giacomo Casa
Study for Overdoor Ornament
ca. 1860
watercolor and ink on paper
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Giacomo Casa
Design for Painted Ceiling
1860
watercolor and ink on paper
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Gustave Courbet
The Trellis
1862
oil on canvas
Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio

William Henry Bradley
The Chap-Book - Borders and Bands
 (cover of advertising brochure)
ca. 1905
letterpress and woodcut
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Hugh Henry Breckenridge
The Altar Cloth
1916
oil on canvas
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

William Christenberry
New Grave - Hale County, Alabama
1979
C-print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Howard Bond
Ceiling - Worcester, England
1982
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Robert Cottingham
Barber Shop
1989
hand-colored lithograph
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Seymour Chwast
Color - Noblet Serigraphie (New York)
1995
screenprint (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Sonnet

Thrice happy he, who by some shady grove,

Far from the clamorous world, doth live his own;

Though solitary, who is not alone,

But doth converse with that eternal love.

Oh how more sweet is birds' harmonious moan

Or the hoarse sobbing of the widowed dove

Than those smooth whisperings near a prince's throne

Which good make doubtful, do the evil approve!

Oh how more sweet is zephyr's wholesome breath

And sighs embalmed, which new-born flow'rs unfold,

Than that applause vain honour doth bequeath!

How sweet are streams to poison drunk in gold!

    The world is full of horrors, troubles, slights,

    Woods' harmless shades have only true delights.

– William Drummond of Hawthornden (1623)