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| attributed to Benedetto Bordone Poliphilo entering a dense pathless forest 1499 woodcut and letterpress (from the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili of Francesco Colonna published by Aldus Manutius in Venice) Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Ambrogio Giovanni Figino after Polidoro da Caravaggio Details from External Friezes on Palazzo Milesi, Rome ca. 1580-90 drawing British Museum |
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| Carel Collaert after Marten de Vos Elisha given Hospitality by the Shunammite Woman 1585 hand-colored engraving British Museum |
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| Carel Collaert after Marten de Vos Birth of a Son to the Shunammite Woman 1585 hand-colored engraving British Museum |
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| Carel Collaert after Marten de Vos Death of the Son of the Shunammite Woman 1585 hand-colored engraving British Museum |
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| Carel Collaert after Marten de Vos Shunammite Woman seeking Elisha to revive her Dead Son 1585 hand-colored engraving British Museum |
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| Carel Collaert after Marten de Vos Elisha hearing of the Dead Son of the Shunammite Woman 1585 hand-colored engraving British Museum |
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| Carel Collaert after Marten de Vos Elisha reviving the Son of the Shunammite Woman 1585 hand-colored engraving British Museum |
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| Abraham van Diepenbeeck Two Cavaliers ca. 1640 drawing British Museum |
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| Giovanni Domenico Ferretti (Giandomenico d'Imola) Bacchanal ca. 1745 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Mary Delany Tulipa Sylvestris 1778 collage, watercolor and gouache on paper British Museum |
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| John Constable Cowdray House (West Sussex) 1834 watercolor on paper British Museum |
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| John Constable Arundel Mill and Castle, West Sussex 1837 oil on canvas Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Anselm Feuerbach Study for a Bacchanal 1847 drawing British Museum |
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| Perle Fine Polyphonic 1945 oil on canvas Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| Lois Conner Swanton Road, California 1983 platinum palladium print Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Jim Dine Singing and Printing I 2001 hand-colored monoprint and woodcut Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
from In Praise of Women in General
Why in this work did the creation rest,
But that eternal providence thought you best
Of all his six days' labour: beasts should do
Homage to man, but man should wait on you.
You are of comelier sight, of daintier touch,
A tender flesh, a colour bright, and such
As Parians see in marble; skin more fair,
More glorious head, and far more glorious hair,
Eyes full of grace and quickness; purer roses
Blush in your cheeks; a milder white composes
Your stately fronts; your breath more sweet than his
Breathes spice, and nectar drops at every kiss.
Your skins are smooth, bristles on their do grow
Like quills of porcupines; rough wool doth flow
O'er all their faces, you approach more near
The form of angels, they like beasts appear.
– Thomas Randolph (published 1638)