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| Marcantonio Raimondi Leda and the Swan ca. 1500-1505 drawing British Museum |
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| Jan Swart van Groningen Daniel's Dream of the Four Beasts 1528 woodcut (Bible illustration) British Museum |
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| Léonard Thiry Ascalaphus turned into an Owl (episode from Ovid's Metamorphoses) ca. 1530 etching Herzog August Bibliothek, Wulfenbüttel |
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| Jan Swart van Groningen Allegorical Figure of Gluttony before 1553 drawing (print study) British Museum |
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| Frans Snyders Eagle ca. 1610 drawing British Museum |
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| Peter Paul Rubens after Giulio Romano Dead Monster and Medusa Head with Perseus disarming and the Origin of Coral ca. 1620-30 drawing (Rubens reworked this anonymous Italian copy-drawing after Giulio) British Museum |
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| Cornelis Saftleven Study of a Bear before 1681 drawing British Museum |
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| Carle Vanloo Bear Hunt 1732 oil on canvas Musée de Picardie, Amiens |
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| Aert Schouman Waterfowl ca. 1750 watercolor on paper British Museum |
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| Luigi Sabatelli Daniel's Vision of the Four Beasts rising from the Sea 1809 etching British Museum |
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| Johann Heinrich Ramberg Study of Rearing Horse (emblem of the city of Hanover) before 1840 drawing British Museum |
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| Max Rosenthal Caricature of William Evans Burton (Cuttle Fish) 1851 chromolithograph National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Charles Ricketts The Great Worm 1889 watercolor and gouache on paper (reproduced in The Dial as lithograph to illustrate fairy tale) British Museum |
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| William Strang The Cat 1897 etching and engraving British Museum |
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| William Strang The Cat ca. 1902 lithograph British Museum |
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| Henri Rousseau Exotic Landscape 1910 oil on canvas Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California |
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| Paul Sample Still Life with Whistler before 1974 acrylic on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
from A Letter to a Friend upon the Occasion of the Death of his Intimate Friend
In this deliberate and creeping progress unto the Grave, he was somewhat too young, and of too noble a mind, to fall upon that stupid Symptom observable in divers Persons near their Journeys end, and which may be reckoned among the mortal Symptoms of their last Disease; that is, to become more narrow minded, miserable and tenacious, unready to part with any thing when they are ready to part with all, and afraid to want when they have no time to spend; mean while Physicians, who know that many are mad but in a single depraved Imagination, and one prevalent Decipiency; and that beside and out of such single Deliriums a Man may meet with sober Actions and good Sense in Bedlam; cannot but smile to see the Heirs and concerned Relations, gratulating themselves in the sober departure of their Friends; and tho they behold such mad covetous Passages, content to think they dye in good Understanding, and in their sober Senses.
– Sir Thomas Browne (1656)