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| Bernardino Luini Christ Child with young St John the Baptist ca. 1520-30 oil on panel, transferred to canvas National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
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| Giuseppe Bernardino Bison Frieze with Putti and Drapery ca. 1780 ink and wash on paper Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Gilbert Stuart Portrait of Anna Dorothea Foster and Charlotte Anna Dick 1790-91 oil on canvas Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina |
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| Giacomo Casa Design for Painted Frieze ca. 1860 ink and watercolor on paper Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Thomas Le Clear Interior with Portraits ca. 1865 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| George Hendrik Breitner Children in the Dunes ca. 1884-86 oil on board Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Frederick Joyner The Garden Roller ca. 1893 albumen print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Frederick Joyner The Garden Roller ca. 1893 albumen print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Anonymous Photographer The Literary Digest Flower Sellers for May Day 1920 hand-colored lantern slide of poster Archives of American Gardens, Washington DC |
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| Charles E. Brown Untitled (Children gathering Blossoms) ca. 1930 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Charles E. Brown Untitled (Children gathering Blossoms) ca. 1930 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Helene von Streker Nyce Bunnies Sliding ca. 1930 ink and watercolor on board Portland Museum of Art, Maine |
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| Helen Levitt Mexico City (Boys in Schoolyard) 1941 gelatin silver print Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Jerome Liebling Young Boys - Iron Range, Minnesota 1951 gelatin silver print Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Ian MacEachern Children on Steps, Elliot Row 1969 inkjet print Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick |
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| Alex Webb Juarez Schoolboys (series, Mexican Border) 1978 gelatin silver print Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Tod Papageorge New York City 1980 gelatin silver print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| William Castellana Woman and Children, Lee Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 2014 pigment print Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
from Halieutica
The Hermit-Fish, unarm'd by Nature left,
Helpless, and weak, grow strong by harmless Theft.
Fearful they strowl, and look with panting Wish
For the cast Crust of some new-cover'd Fish;
Or such as empty lie, and deck the Shore,
Whose first and rightful Owners are no more.
They make glad Seizure of the vacant Room,
And count the borrow'd Shell their native Home;
Screw their soft Limbs to fit the winding Case,
And boldly herd with the Crustaceous Race.
Careless they enter the first empty Cell;
Oft find the plaited Wilk's indented Shell;
And oft the deep-dy'd Purple forc'd by Death
To Stranger-Fish the painted Home bequeath.
The Wilk's etch'd Coat is most with Pleasure worn,
Wide in Extent, and yet but lightly born.
But when they growing more than fill the Place,
And find themselves hard-pinch'd in scanty Space,
Compell'd they quit the Roof they lov'd before,
And busy search around the pebbly Shore,
Till a commodious roomy Seat be found,
Such as the larger Cockles living own'd.
Oft cruel Wars contending Hermits wage,
And long for the disputed Shell engage.
The strongest will the doubtful Prize possess,
Pow'r gives him Right, and All the Claim confess.
Pow'r gives him Right, and All the Claim confess.
– Oppian (2nd century AD), translated by William Diaper (1722)