Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Ornamental

Monogrammist GZ (German printmaker)
Illustrated Title-Page to Pliny
1518
woodcut and letterpress
(printed by Thomas Anshelm in Hagenau)
British Museum


Agostino Musi (Agostino Veneziano) after Sebastiano Serlio
Ionic Column Base
1528
engraving
British Museum

Gilles-Marie Oppenord
Design for Tabernacle
ca. 1692-99
drawing
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Gilles-Marie Oppenord
Design for Tomb
ca. 1692-99
drawing
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Crescenzio Onofri
Landscape with a River
before 1698
drawing
British Museum

Domingo Martínez
Procession of Tobacco Workers honoring King Ferdinand VI
1748
oil on canvas
Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla

attributed to Christophe Nathe
Funerary Monument to Luisa Reinhart
ca. 1790-1800
watercolor on paper
British Museum

Henry Monnier
Le Derrière de la Toile
(series, Galerie Théâtrale)
ca. 1828
hand-colored lithograph
British Museum

Edmund Thomas Parris
Portrait of a Young Woman
1829
watercolor on paper
British Museum

Frederick Marschall
Tapestry Room - Château de Fontainebleau
ca. 1885
watercolor on paper
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

William Orpen
Conversation Piece
1910
oil on canvas
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Franz Marc
The Mandrill
1913
oil on canvas
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich

Elizabeth Olds
Tourists
ca. 1938
screenprint
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Ben Nicholson
Still Life
1950
oil and graphite on canvas
Phillips Collection, Washington DC

Giorgio Morandi
Still Life with Flask
1953
oil on canvas
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Sol LeWitt
Lines and Colors
1977
screenprint
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Barbara Nessim
American Women
1982
ink and watercolor on paper
(commissioned by Time magazine)
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

To Phryne

When thou thy youth shalt view
    Fumed out, and hate thy glass for telling true;
When thy face shall be seen
    Like to an Easter apple gathered green;
When thy whole body shall
    Be one foul wrinkle, lame and shrivelled all
So deep that men therein
    May find a grave to bury shame and sin;
When no clasped youth shall be
    Pouring his bones into thy lap and thee;
When thy own wanton fires
    Shall leave to bubble up thy loose desires:
Then wilt thou sighing lie,
    Repent and smart, and so by two deaths die.

– Owen Feltham (1661)