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| Marcantonio Bassetti after Jacopo Tintoretto Jupiter pronouncing Venice Queen of the Seas ca. 1610 drawing Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario |
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| Niccolò Trometta The Holy Trinity before 1612 drawing (fresco study) British Museum |
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| Paulus Bor Annunciation of her Death to the Virgin ca. 1635-40 oil on canvas National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
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| Alessandro Tiarini Holy Family with St Andrew and Instruments of the Passion ca. 1640-50 drawing (study for painting) British Museum |
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| Adriaen van de Velde Peasant Man and Woman by a Fountain 1659 drawing (print study) British Museum |
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| John Vanderbank The Judgment of Midas 1723 drawing Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Carle Vanloo The Arts in Supplication 1764 oil on canvas Frick Art Museum, Pittsburgh |
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| Philipp Velyn after Pierre Peyron Scene from Racine's Mithridate (act IV) ca. 1816 etching (retouched proof for book illustration) British Museum |
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| Philipp Velyn after Pierre Peyron Scene from Racine's Mithridate (act V) ca. 1816 etching (retouched proof for book illustration) British Museum |
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| Carl Wilhelm Tischbein The Parents of Tobias greeting their daughter-in-law Sarah 1817 oil on panel Clemens Sels Museum, Neuss, Germany |
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| David Wilkie Christopher Columbus explaining his intended Voyage 1834 oil on canvas North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh |
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| Giuseppe Bezzuoli Pia dei Tolomei in the Maremma (episode in Dante's Divine Comedy) before 1855 drawing British Museum |
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| Adalbert Trillhaase The Witch of Endor ca. 1927 oil on canvas Clemens Sels Museum, Neuss, Germany |
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| Isabel Bishop On the Street 1931 etching Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Joseph Vogel Solicitations 1937 lithograph (WPA Project) Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Ruth Ellen Weisberg The Gift 1975 lithograph National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Ben Quilty Golden Soil - Wealth for Toil 2004 oil on canvas Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
from A Letter to a Friend upon the Occasion of the Death of his Intimate Friend
Some think there were few Consumptions in the Old World, when Men lived much upon Milk; and that the ancient Inhabitants of this Island were less troubled with Coughs when they went naked, and slept in Caves and Woods, than Men now in Chambers and Feather-beds. Plato will tell us, that there was no such Disease as a Catarrh in Homer's time, and that it was but new in Greece in his Age. Polydore Virgil delivereth that Pleurisies were rare in England, who lived but in the days of Henry the Eighth. Some will allow no Diseases to be new, others think that many old ones are ceased; and that such which are esteemed new, will have but their time: However, the Mercy of God hath scattered the great heap of Diseases, and not loaded any one Country with all: some may be new in one Country which have been old in another. New Discoveries of the Earth discover new Diseases: for besides the common swarm, there are endemial and local Infirmities proper unto certain Regions, which in the whole Earth make no small number: and if Asia, Africa, and America should bring in their List, Pandoras Box would swell, and there must be a strange Pathology.
– Sir Thomas Browne (1656)