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| Charles Dana Gibson Her poise, her unconsciousness, the winning simplicity of her manner were noticed everywhere. 1910 drawing Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, Massachusetts |
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| Irving Penn Hippie Group, San Francisco 1967 platinum-palladium print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| John Edward Costigan Picnic along the Brook 1952 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Joseph von Führich Marriage at Cana 1841 etching British Museum |
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| Jan de Bisschop Adoration of the Shepherds ca. 1660 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Anonymous Artist Adoration of the Magi ca. 1740 oil on canvas Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia |
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| Don Freeman Casting for Character 1934 lithograph Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Domenico del Barbieri after Francesco Primaticcio Banquet of Alexander the Great ca. 1540-50 engraving Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Anonymous Artist A Bed-Room Bombardment ca. 1870 hand-colored lithograph National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
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| Anonymous Photographer Hans Hofmann with his Modern Art class at UC Berkeley 1930 gelatin silver print Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
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| Gerard Hoet The Earth before the Flood ca. 1728 drawing (print study) British Museum |
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| Dirck Hals Merry Company ca. 1620 oil on panel Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Camille Pissarro Uprising in Paris 1870 drawing Dallas Museum of Art |
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| Johann Maria Monsorno Gathering of Olympian Gods 1796 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Vicente Borrás y Abella Vaccinating Children ca. 1900 oil on canvas Museo de Málaga, Spain |
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| Winslow Homer Bell-Time (series, New England Factory Life) 1868 wood-engraving (published in Harper's Weekly) Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Charles Nègre Famille de Charles Nègre ca. 1859 collodion print from salted paper negative National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
from The Birds
Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span,
Protracted with sorrow from day to day,
Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous,
Sickly calamitous creatures of clay!
Attend to the words of the Sovereign Birds,
(Immortal, illustrious, lords of the air)
Who survey from on high, with a merciful eye,
Your struggles of misery, labour, and care.
Whence you may learn and clearly discern
Such truths as attract your inquisitive turn,
Which is busied of late, with a mighty debate,
A profound speculation about the creation,
And organical life, and chaotical strife,
With various notions of heavenly motions,
And rivers and oceans, and valleys and mountains,
And sources of fountains, and meteors on high,
And stars in the sky . . . We propose by and by,
(If you'll listen and hear) to make it all clear.
– Aristophanes (445-385 BC), translated by John Hookham Frere (1839)