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| workshop of Raphael Apollo and Hyacinth ca. 1515 drawing British Museum |
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| Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi) Group of Figures ca. 1538 drawing British Museum |
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| Marinus van Reymerswaele Lawyer in his Office 1542 oil on panel Alte Pinakothek, Munich |
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| Orazio Samacchini St John the Evangelist with Bishop Saints before 1577 drawing British Museum |
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| Matteo Rosselli St John the Baptist preaching ca. 1610 drawing British Museum |
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| Domenico Peruzzini Temptation of Christ by Horned Devil 1642 etching British Museum |
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| Giacomo Piccini after Pietro Liberi Diogenes 1652 engraving British Museum |
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| Giovanni Francesco Romanelli Juno confiding Io to the care of Argus before 1662 drawing British Museum |
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| Salvator Rosa Plato discoursing with Followers ca. 1662 drawing (print study) British Museum |
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| Pietro Antonio de Pietri The Virgin dictating to St Bernard of Clairvaux before 1716 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Jean-Baptiste Oudry The Schoolboy, the Master, and the Owner of the Garden (print study for illustration to La Fontaine) 1732 drawing British Museum |
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| Pierre Parrocel Villagers in Conversation before 1739 etching British Museum |
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| Gian Paolo Panini Soldiers with Seated Man before a Temple before 1765 drawing British Museum |
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| Jean-Baptiste Regnault Socrates leading Alcibiades from the Embrace of Voluptuousness 1791 drawing (made in Rome) British Museum |
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| Dante Gabriel Rossetti Hamlet and Ophelia ca. 1853-54 drawing British Museum |
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| William Blake Richmond A Whispered Secret 1862 drawing British Museum |
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| Auguste Renoir Luncheon of the Boating Party ca. 1880-81 oil on canvas Phillips Collection, Washington DC |
from A Letter to a Friend upon the Occasion of the Death of his Intimate Friend
I was not so curious to entitle the Stars unto any concern of his Death, yet could not but take notice that he died when the Moon was in motion from the Meridian; at which time, an old Italian long ago would persuade me, that the greatest part of Men died: but herein I confess I could never satisfie my Curiosity; altho from the time of Tides in Places upon or near the Sea, there may be considerable Deductions; and Pliny hath an odd and remarkable Passage concerning the Death of Men and Animals upon the Recess or Ebb of the Sea. However, certain it is he died in the dead and deep part of the Night, when Nox might be most apprehensibly said to be the Daughter of Chaos, the Mother of Sleep and Death, according to old Genealogy; and so went out of this World about that hour when our blessed Saviour entred it, and about what time many conceive he will return again unto it. Cardan hath a particular and no hard Observation from a Man's Hand, to know whether he was born in the day or night, which I confess holdeth in my own. And Scaliger to that purpose hath another from the tip of the Ear. Most Men are begotten in the Night, most Animals in the Day; but whether more Persons have been born in the Night or the Day, were a Curiosity undecidable, tho more have perished by violent Deaths in the Day; yet in natural Dissolutions both Times may hold an Indifferency, at least but contingent Inequality. The whole course of Time runs out in the Nativity and Death of Things, which whether they happen by Succession or Coincidence, are best computed by the natural, not artificial Day.
– Sir Thomas Browne (1656)