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| Albrecht Dürer Man on Horseback ca. 1490-94 drawing British Museum |
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| Pellegrino Tibaldi Female Triton with Child ca. 1548-50 drawing British Museum |
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| Enea Vico Procession with Elephants and Marine Deities before 1567 drawing British Museum |
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| Jacques Androuet Du Cerceau the Elder Château du Louvre, west side of court ca. 1570 ink and watercolor on vellum British Museum |
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| Raffaello Vanni Studies of Hands ca. 1650 drawing British Museum |
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| Willem Drost Sketch of Boy ca. 1650-55 drawing British Museum |
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| Gaspard Dughet Valley after a Shower ca. 1652-56 oil on canvas (originally painted for Palazzo Colonna in Rome) John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida |
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| Rosalba Carriera Portrait of a Woman as the Goddess Diana before 1757 pastel on paper Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden |
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| Jean-François Thomas de Thomon Architectural Capriccio on Riverside 1785 watercolor and ink on paper British Museum |
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| John Downman The Elder Miss Lushington of Portland Place 1798 drawing British Museum |
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| Hans Thoma Spring on a Mountain Lake 1898 lithograph British Museum |
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| Marcel Duchamp Study for Portrait of Chess Players 1911 drawing Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| Rudolf Bauer Andante 1928 watercolor, gouache, ink and crayon on paper Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| Mabel Dwight Aquarium (Alligators, New York) 1928 hand-colored lithograph Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Ilya Bolotowsky Grey Diamond 1955 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Kay Walkingstick Two Women II 1973 acrylic on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Catherine Wagner Constantine Fragments 2014 inkjet print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
from Lycidas
Where were ye nymphs when the remorseless deep
Closed o'er the head of your loved Lycidas?
For neither were ye playing on the steep,
Where your old bards, the famous Druids, lie,
Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high,
Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream;
Ay me, I fondly dream!
Had ye been there . . . for what could that have done?
What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore,
The Muse herself for her enchanting son
Whom universal nature did lament,
When by the rout that made the hideous roar,
His gory visage down the stream was sent,
Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore.
Alas! What boots it with uncessant care
To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade,
And strictly meditate the thankless Muse;
Were it not better done as others use,
To sport with Amaryllis in the shade
Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair?
– John Milton (published 1638)