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| Titian Arcadian Musicians ca. 1508 drawing British Museum |
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| Giovanni Battista Trotti (il Molosso) Annunciatory Angel ca. 1595 drawing British Museum |
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| Hans Vredeman de Vries Perspective Study of Courtyard before 1608 drawing British Museum |
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| Herman van Swanevelt Wooded Landscape with Nymph and River God 1642 drawing British Museum |
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| Cornelis de Visscher the Younger Boy with Cap and Mask of Folly before 1662 drawing British Museum |
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| Sir James Thornhill Hercules (study for painted panel at Blenheim Palace) ca. 1716 drawing British Museum |
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| Jacob de Wit Heads of Cherubim before 1754 watercolor and chalk on paper British Museum |
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| Gaspare Traversi The Arts: Drawing ca. 1755-60 oil on canvas Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
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| Mary Delany Lupinus Hirsutus 1776 collage, watercolor and gouache on paper British Museum |
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| Raphael Lamar West Country Simplicity 1787 hand-colored etching British Museum |
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| Raphael Lamar West London Refinement 1787 hand-colored etching British Museum |
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| Richard Emile Miller The Green Cage ca. 1910-14 oil on canvas Akron Art Museum, Ohio |
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| Charles Rennie Mackintosh Blue Garlands (textile design) ca. 1916 watercolor on paper British Museum |
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| Jacques Villon Le Grain ne meurt 1947 oil on canvas Phillips Collection, Washington DC |
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| Richard Merkin Madame Bricktop sees St Martin go through the Room 1972 tempera on paper, mounted on board Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Kate Lucey Whitney Perennial Borders at The Whim, Newport, Rhode Island 2009 digital photograph Archives of American Gardens, Washington DC |
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| Ellen Carey Dings and Shadows 2012 C-print Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
On Sir Robert Cotton the Antiquary
Posterity hath many fates bemoaned,
But ages long since past for thee have groaned.
Time's trophies thou didst rescue from the grave,
Who in thy death a second burial have.
Cotton, death's conquest now complete I see,
Who ne'er had vanquished all things but in thee.
– Thomas Randolph (published 1638)