Friday, October 10, 2025

Ornamental

Antonio Vassilacchi (Antonio Aliense)
Allegorical Figures flanking Lion of St Mark
ca. 1584
drawing
British Museum


Antonio Tempesta
Life of St Anthony Abbot
1597
etching (title page)
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden

Friedrich Sustris
Allegorical Figures of Justice and Power
ornamenting an Archway

before 1599
drawing (print study for frontispiece)
British Museum

Laurens Jacobsz van der Vinne
Exotic Flowers with Serpent
ca. 1740-42
watercolor and gouache on paper
Museum Boerhaave, Leiden

Thomas Stothard
Caryatids
ca. 1799
drawing
British Museum

Anonymous Italian Gemcutter after Bertel Thorvaldsen
Night
ca. 1815-20
malachite cameo set in gold
(copied from Thorvaldsen's marble relief panel)
British Museum

Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller
Flowers in a Porcelain Vase
1839
oil on panel
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Bertha Wegmann
Blue Fan, Green Jug, Apple Blossoms
ca. 1885
oil on panel
Hirschsprung Collection, Copenhagen

Percyval Tudor-Hart (designer) and Léo Belmonte (weaver)
Upholstered Armchair
1926-27
wool and cotton tapestry on pre-existing walnut frame
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

William Winter
Chandelier - Whitney Museum - 10 West 8th Street
1932
gelatin silver print
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Joseph Stella
Serenade - A Christmas Fantasy
1937
oil on panel
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Milan Todd
Settling Time
1986
screenprint
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

John Valadez
Two Vendors
1989
pastel on paper
Smithsonian American Art Museum,Washington DC

Timney Fowler Ltd. (London)
Sketchbook
1994
printed silk scarf 
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Margaret Strickland
A Night Out With Friends
2008
inkjet print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Stephen Tomasko
Untitled (series, Winter Was Hard)
2009
inkjet print
Akron Art Museum, Ohio

Kate Lucey Whitney
Hydrangea Hedge at The Whim, Newport, Rhode Island
2010
digital photograph
Archives of American Gardens, Washington DC

Madrigal

Astrea in this time
Now doth not live, but is fled up to heaven;
Or if she live, it is not without crime
That she doth use her power,
And she is no more virgin, but a whore,
Whore prostitute for gold:
For she doth never hold her balance even;
And when her sword is rolled,
    The bad, injurious, false she not o'erthrows,
    But on the innocent lets fall her blows.

– William Drummond of Hawthornden (ca. 1614)