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| Gerard David Portrait of a Goldsmith ca. 1505-1510 oil on panel Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Ambrosius Holbein Island of Utopia (illustration to Thomas More's Utopia) 1518 woodcut British Museum |
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| Albrecht Dürer Constructed Figure (Male) 1526 drawing British Museum |
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| Albrecht Dürer Constructed Figure (Male) 1526 drawing British Museum |
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| attributed to Jean de Court Minerva with Attendants ca. 1560-80 enamel on copper British Museum |
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| Juan van der Hamen Bodegón ca. 1620-30 oil on canvas Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels |
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| Lambert Doomer Fountain at Cleves 1663 drawing British Museum |
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| Jan van Huysum Flowers in a Terracotta Vase 1725 oil on panel Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna |
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| George Dance Couple dancing on Rooftop ca. 1770 drawing British Museum |
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| John Sell Cotman Mount St Michel in Normandy ca. 1820 watercolor on paper British Museum |
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| Richard Cosway Ceres searching for Proserpine before 1821 drawing British Museum |
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| William Michael Harnett The Old Cupboard Door 1889 oil on canvas Museums Sheffield, South Yorkshire |
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| Kenyon Cox Drapery Study for painting The Pursuit of the Ideal 1891 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| George Hurrell Douglas Fairbanks Junior 1933 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Carl Robert Holty Orange and Gold 1942 oil on board Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Scott Hyde Untitled (Street Scene) ca. 1970 lithograph Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Robert Cottingham Cold Beer 1982 hand-colored lithograph Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
from On the Great Frost (1634)
Show me the flames you brag of, you that be
Armed with those two fires, wine and poetry:
You're now benumbed, spite of your gods and verse,
And may your metaphors for prayers rehearse,
Whiles you that called snow 'fleece' and 'feathers' do
Wish for true fleeces, and true feathers too.
Waters have bound themselves, and cannot run,
Suffering what Xerxes' fetters would have done;
Our rivers are one crystal; shores are fit
Mirrors, being now not like to glass, but it;
Our ships stand all as planted: we may swear
They are not borne up only, but grow there.
Whiles waters thus are pavements, firm as stone,
And without faith are each day walked upon:
What parables called folly heretofore
Were wisdom now, To build upon the shore.
There's no one dines among us with washed hands:
Water's as scarce here as in Africk sands,
And we expect it not but from some god
Opening a fountain, or some prophet's rod –
Who need not seek out where he may unlock
A stream: whate'er he strook would be true rock.
– William Cartwright (published 1651)