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| workshop of Quentin Massys Virgin in Adoration ca. 1510 oil on panel Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Albrecht Dürer Portrait of a Man ca. 1520-21 drawing British Museum |
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| Jean de Gourmont the Elder St Eloi crafting a Chalice (perspective exercise) ca. 1520-30 engraving British Museum |
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| Jean de Gourmont the Elder St John the Baptist adoring the Spotless Lamb (perspective exercise) ca. 1520-30 engraving British Museum |
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| Dirck Hals Merry Company 1626 oil on panel California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco |
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| Willem van Haecht the Younger Gallery of Cornelis van der Geest 1628 oil on panel Rubenshuis, Antwerp |
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| Pieter de Grebber St Augustine ca. 1635 oil on canvas Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Narbonne |
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| Gonzales Coques Family Group in a Garden ca. 1640-50 drawing British Museum |
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| Johann Georg de Hamilton Imperial Lipizzaner Stud Farm 1727 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Alexis Grimou Spanish Minstrel before 1733 oil on canvas National Trust, Petworth House, Sussex |
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| Nathaniel Dance Lucius Verginius 1759 drawing British Museum |
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| Maria Cosway after Richard Cosway Sorceress Una with Lion ca. 1780-1800 etching British Museum |
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| Walter Crane Auxiliary Postman (design for printed Valentine card) 1874 watercolor and ink on paper British Museum |
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| Kenyon Cox Model Study ca. 1874-76 drawing Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Walker Evans Dorothy Bitters ca. 1940 gelatin silver print Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Alice Trumbull Mason Emergent Form 1945 oil on board Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| Brian Fahlstrom Reflected 2006 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
from Hudibras
When civil fury first grew high,
And men fell out, they knew not why;
When hard words, jealousies, and fears
Set folks together by the ears
And made them fight, like mad or drunk,
For Dame Religion as for punk,
Whose honesty they all durst swear for,
Though not a man of them knew wherefore;
When gospel-trumpeter, surrounded
With long-eared rout, to battle sounded,
And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic,
Was beat with fist instead of a stick:
Then did sir knight abandon dwelling,
And out he rode a coloneling.
A wight he was whose very sight would
Entitle him Mirror of Knighthood;
That never bent his stubborn knee
To anything but chivalry,
Nor put up blow but that which laid
'Right Worshipful' on shoulder-blade;
Chief of domestic knights and errant,
Either for cartel or for warrant;
Great on the bench, great in the saddle,
That could as well bind o'er as swaddle:
Mighty he was at both of these
And styled of war as well as peace.
– Samuel Butler (1678)