Thursday, November 27, 2025

Ornamental

Albrecht Dürer
Apollo with partial back view of seated Diana
ca. 1501
drawing
British Museum


Hans Hoffmann
Grasshopper and Fly
before 1584
watercolor on paper
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

attributed to Samuel van Hoogstraten
Recumbent Youth in reverential attitude
ca. 1646
drawing
British Museum

Meindert Hobbema
Water Mill
ca. 1664
drawing
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Noël Coypel
Sacrifice of Manoah
ca. 1690
oil on canvas
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College,
Hanover, New Hampshire

Gerard Hoet
Clelia crossing the Tiber
before 1733
oil on panel
private collection
(auctioned at Sotheby's in 2019)

Winslow Homer
Waterfall in the Adirondacks
ca. 1889
watercolor on paper
Freer Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

Thomas Eakins
Samuel Murray
ca. 1890
platinum print
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Kenyon Cox
Cover of McClure's Magazine for February
1899
lithograph
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Charles Hoffbauer
Sur la Plage
1907
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Roubaix

Williams, Brown & Earle (Philadelphia)
Fontana di Trevi, Rome
ca. 1910
hand-colored lantern slide
Archives of American Gardens, Washington DC

Arthur F. Kales
The Bubble
ca. 1925
bromoil print
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

George Hurrell
Myrna Loy
1935
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Hans Hofmann
Landscape
ca. 1942
oil on board
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

Carl Robert Holty
Gridiron
1943-44
oil on board
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Josef Hoffmann
Doorway with Potted Tree
ca. 1950-55
drawing
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

David Hockney
Snails Space with Vari-Lites
1995-96
installation with painted elements of canvas and wood
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

from Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666

In silent night, when rest I took,
For sorrow near I did not look:
I wakened was with thundering noise
And piteous shrieks of dreadful voice.
That fearful sound of 'Fire!' and 'Fire!'
Let no man know is my desire.
I, starting up, the light did spy,
And to my God my heart did cry
To strengthen me in my distress
And not to leave me succourless;
Then, coming out, beheld a space
The flame consume my dwelling place.
And when I could no longer look,
I blessed his name that gave and took,
That laid my goods now in the dust. 
Yea, so it was, and so 'twas just. 

– Anne Bradstreet (published 1867)