Duets

Christoph Jamnitzer
Pendant Designs
(illustration to Neues Groteskenbuch)
1610
etching
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Peter Flötner
Designs for Capitals and Bases of Pilasters
ca. 1530
woodcut
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna

Jost Amman after Wenzel Jamnitzer
Perspective Spheres
1568
etching (book illustration)
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Charley Toorop
Apples on Leaves
1939
oil on canvas
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

Dirk Hidde Nijland
Gloves
1928
oil on canvas, mounted on panel
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

Arnaldo Battistoni
Interior with Chairs
ca. 1950-55
etching
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Stig Åsberg
Still Life with Hats
1939
etching
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Heinrich Aldegrever
Two Spoons with Ornamental Handles
1539
engraving
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich

Frédéric Bazille
Crockery Lids
1864
 oil on board (sketch)
Musée Fabre, Montpellier

Agostino Musi (Agostino Veneziano)
Two Herms after the Antique
1536
engraving
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Bjarne Engebret
Surrealist Composition
1934
linocut
Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum, Tromsø

Odoardo Fialetti
Torsos
1608
etching
(plate for drawing manual)
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Anonymous Croatian Artist
Stockholm Olympics
1912
lithograph (poster)
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Anonymous German Artist
Deformed Newborns
ca. 1580
woodcut
Graphische Sammlung, Zentralbibliothek Zürich

Gunnar Sundgren
Baekman Brothers
ca. 1930
gelatin silver print
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Verna Åkerberg
Two Squirrels
1910
mosaic
Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm

When shipwrecked Antheus had swum ashore at night on a small plank to the mouth of the Peneus, a solitary wolf rushing from the thicket slew him off his guard. O waves less treacherous than the land!

The shipwrecked mariner had escaped the whirlwind and the fury of the deadly sea, and as he was lying on the Libyan sand not far from the beach, deep in his last sleep, naked and exhausted by the unhappy wreck, a baneful viper slew him. Why did he struggle with the waves in vain, escaping then the fate that was his lot on the land?

The salt sea still drips from thy locks, Lysidice, unhappy girl, shipwrecked and drowned. When the sea began to be disturbed, fearing its violence, thou didst fall from the hollow ship. The tomb proclaims thy name and that of thy land, Cyme, but thy bones are wave-washed on the cold beach. A bitter sorrow it was to thy father Aristomachus, who, escorting thee to thy marriage, brought there neither his daughter nor her corpse. 

The halcyons, perchance, care for thee, Lenaeus, but thy mother mourns for thee dumbly over thy cold tomb.

No temperst, no stormy setting of a constellation overwhelmed Nicophemus in the waters of the Libyan Sea. But alas, unhappy man, stayed by a calm he was burnt up by thirst. This too was the work of the winds. Ah, what a curse are they to sailors, whether they blow or be silent!

Gryneus, the old man who got his living by his sea-worn wherry, busying himself with lines and hooks, the sea, roused to fury by a terrible southerly gale, swamped him, and he washed up in the morning on the beach, his hands eaten off. Who would say that they had no sense, the fish who ate just those parts of him by which they used to perish? 

– from Book VI (Sepulchral Epigrams) of the Greek Anthology, translated and edited by W.R. Paton (1917)