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Édouard Vuillard
Program for Théâtre Libre
1890
lithograph
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Scotson-Clark
"The Queen of Finesse" - in the New York Ledger
1895
lithograph (poster)
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington

Charles Dana Gibson
Two Women & a Fool
ca. 1895
lithograph (poster)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Joseph J. Gould
How To Feed Children
1896
lithograph (poster)
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Giovanni Maria Mataloni
Caffaro - Giornale di Genova
ca. 1897
lithograph (poster)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Carl Kunze
Konzerthaus Wintergarten, Dortmund
ca. 1910
lithograph (poster)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

William Sergeant Kendall
Robert Blum in January Scribner's
ca. 1910
watercolor and ink on paper
(print study)
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Joseph Christian Leyendecker
The Literary Digest
ca. 1912
oil on canvas
(design for magazine cover)
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Herbert Paus
Save Your Child from Autocracy and Poverty
ca. 1918
lithograph (poster)
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington

Otto Lange
Bad Elster
ca. 1928
lithograph (poster)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Edmund Walker
No Extra Trains at Christmas!
ca. 1943
lithograph (poster)
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

C. Dudley Wood
The Hotel Federal
ca. 1950
lithograph (poster)
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Wes Wilson
Jefferson Airplane at the Fillmore, San Francisco
1967
lithograph (poster)
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington

Christopher Pratt
Victoria Regina (Red)
1971
screenprint
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick

Scott Hyde
The Light Is Different In California
1980
lithograph (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Italo Scanga
Aaron Copeland
1997
vitreograph print
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut

Bernadette Corporation
Please Read the Titles to Yourself
2007
wool embroidery on synthetic fabric
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

from Virgil's Gnat

The fiery Sun was mounted now on hight

Up to the heavenly towers, and shot each where

Out of his golden Charet glistering light;

And fayre Aurora with her rosie heare,

The hatefull darknes now had put to flight,

When as the shepheard seeing day appeare,

His little Goats gan drive out of heir stalls,

To feede abroad, where pasture best befalls.

To an high mountains top he with them went,

Where thickest grasse did cloath the open hills:

They now amongst the woods and thickets ment,

Now in the valleies wandring at their wills,

Spread themselves farre abroad through each descent;

Some on the soft greene grasse feeding their fills;

Some clambring through the hollow cliffes on hy,

Nibble the bushie shrubs, which growe thereby. 

Others the utmost boughs of trees doe crop,

And brouze the woodbine twigges, that freshly bud;

This with full bit doth catch the utmost top

Of some soft Willow, or new growen stud;

This with sharpe teeth the bramble leaves doth lop,

And chaw the tender prickles in her Cud;

The whiles another high doth overlooke

Her owne like image in a christall brooke. 

O the great happines, which shepheards have,

Who so loathes not too much the poore estate,

With minde that ill use doth before deprave,

Ne measures all things by the costly rate

Of riotise, and semblants outward brave;

No such sad cares, as wont to macerate

And rend the greedie mindes of covetous men,

Do ever creepe into the shepheards den.

Ne cares he if the fleece, which him arayes,

Be not twice-steeped in Assyrian dye,

Ne glistering of golde, which underlayes

The summer beames, doe blinde his gazing eye.

Ne pictures beautie, nor the glauncing rayes

Of precious stones, whence no good commeth by;

Ne yet his cup embost with Imagery

Of Bœtus or of Alcons vanity.

– Appendix Vergiliana, translated by Edmund Spenser (1591)