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| Anonymous Photographer Artist's Model posing as Confederate Soldier ca. 1860-65 ambrotype National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
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| Kenyon Cox Model Study ca. 1874-76 drawing Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Kenyon Cox Study for Allegorical Figure of Science (mural at Iowa State Capitol) 1905 drawing National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Kenyon Cox Seated Model ca. 1880-84 drawing Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Thomas Eakins Art Student as Life Model ca. 1883 platinum print Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| Thomas Eakins Models in Classical Costumes 1883 platinum print Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| Thomas Eakins Models feigning wrestling in Eakins' Studio ca. 1899 platinum print Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| Robert Henri Seated Model ca. 1915-20 drawing Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Nickolas Muray Study of Model ca. 1930 gelatin silver print Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
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| Nickolas Muray Study of Model ca. 1930 gelatin silver print Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
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| Nickolas Muray Study of Model ca. 1930 gelatin silver print Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
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| Nickolas Muray Study of Model ca. 1930 gelatin silver print Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
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| Alfredo Valente Raphael Soyer with Model ca. 1940 gelatin silver print Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
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| Paul Wonner Model drinking Coffee 1964 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Patricia Monaco Model Stephanie Caloia and other Models dancing in painter Edward Hagedorn's Berkeley house 1981 calotype Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
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| Patricia Monaco Model Stephanie Caloia descending a staircase in painter Edward Hagedorn's Berkeley house 1981 calotype Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
from Plutus
[The God of Wealth regains his sight]
Good morrow to the morn next to my gold:
First bright Apollo, I salute thy rayes,
And next the earth, Minerva's sacred land,
Truly Cecropian soile, Athenian city.
How my soule blushes, and with grief remembers
My miserable blindnesse! wretched Plutus,
Whose hood-winkt ignorance made thy guilty feet
Stumble into the company of Rascals,
Informers, Sequestrators, Pettifoggers,
Grave Coxcombs, Sycophants and unconscionable Coridons,
And Citizens whose fals Conscience weigh'd too light
In their own scales, claim'd by a principall Charter
The Cornucopia proper to themselves.
When good just men, such as did venture lives
For Countries safety and the Nations honour,
Were paid with their own wounds, and made those scars
Which were accounted once the marks of honour,
The miserable priviledge of begging,
Scarce to have lodging in an Hospital.
And those whose labors suffer nightly throes
To give their teeming brains deliverance
To enrich the land with learned merchandise
Starve in their studies, and like moathes devoure
The very leaves they read, scorn'd of the Vulgar,
Nay, of the better sort too many times,
As if their knowledge were but learned wickednesse,
and every Smug could preach as well as they:
Nay, as if men were worse for Academies.
But all shall be amended. I could tell
A tale of horrour, and unmask foule actions;
Black as the night they were committed in.
I could unfold a Lerna, and with proofs
As clear as this deer light, could testifie
How I unwilling kept them company.
– Aristophanes (445-385 BC), translated by Thomas Randolph (before 1635)