Sunday, November 2, 2025

Ornamental

Jacopo Ripanda
Three Sibyls
ca.1505
drawing (study for fresco)
British Museum


Pierre Reymond
Amorous Boating Party
ca. 1540
enamel on copper
(Limoges plaque)
British Museum

Jan Symonsz Pynas
Imaginary Landscape
before 1631
drawing
British Museum

Theodoor Rombouts
Backgammon Players
1634
oil on canvas
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

Salvator Rosa
Sheet of Studies
ca. 1640-45
drawing
British Museum

Pieter de Ring
Still Life
ca. 1650
oil on canvas
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

Mary Delany
Oenothera Grandiflora
1780
collage, watercolor and gouache on paper
British Museum

Johann Heinrich Ramberg
Celebrating the Restoration of Prince Adolphus Frederick
1813
ink and watercolor on paper
(design for transparency)
British Museum

Max Rosenthal
Caricature of Francis Martin Drexel as Gold Fish
1851
chromolithograph
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Alexander Bassano
Mademoiselle de Alealo Galiano
at the Devonshire House Fancy Dress Ball

1897
photogravure
British Museum

Robert Delaunay
Red Eiffel Tower
1911-12
oil on canvas
Guggenheim Museum, New York

Frederic Clay Bartlett
Nurse and Child in Garden
ca. 1920
oil on canvas
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

George Hurrell
Dorothy Lamour
1935
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Scott Hyde
Astor Place Luncheonette with The Judgment of Paris by Rubens
1970
lithograph
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Keith Boyle
Orange Inside Out
1973
oil on canvas
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Roger Huyssen
Suite for Flute and Piano
ca. 1975
lithograph (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Andrew Balkin
Alistra
(from Wisconsin Sesquicentennial Portfolio)
2001
hand-colored aquatint
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

The courteous pagan shall condemn
    Uncourteous Englishmen
Who live like foxes, bears, and wolves,
    Or lion in his den.

Let none sing blessings to their souls,
    For that they courteous are:
The wild barbarians with no more
    Than nature, go so far.

If nature's sons both wild and tame
    Humane and courteous be,
How ill becomes it sons of God
    To want humanity?

– Roger Williams (1643)