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| Andrea della Robbia Bust of Christ Child ca. 1490-1510 glazed terracotta Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami |
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| Pieter Feddes after Martin Gheeraerts Child Skeleton (series, Anatomical Figures of Various Ages) 1614 etching British Museum |
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| Leendert van der Cooghen Portrait of a Boy ca. 1670 drawing Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Marie-Victoire Lemoine Portrait of a Girl ca. 1790 oil on canvas Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky |
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| Alfred Dumont Portrait of a Girl 1848 drawing Cabinet d'Arts Graphiques des Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève |
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| Anonymous Photographer Nathaniel van Aken ca. 1850-60 hand-colored daguerreotype Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Robert Whale Portrait of Catherine McClary ca. 1870 oil on canvas Museum London, Ontario |
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| Thomas Ball Portrait of a Girl ca. 1870 marble relief Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington |
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| Phoebe Anna Traquair Studies of a Child 1889 drawing Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia |
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| Paul Gauguin Louis Le Ray 1890 oil on canvas Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia |
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| Mary Cassatt Child with Red Hat ca. 1904 pastel on paper Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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| Walter Sickert Claude Phillip Martin 1935 oil on canvas Tate Britain |
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| Helen Levitt Girl with Dagger ca. 1942 gelatin silver print Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Josef Müller-Brockmann Schützt das Kind! 1953 offset-lithograph (poster) Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Ralph Eugene Meatyard Untitled 1967 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Co Westerik Skipping Rope 1976 watercolor on paper Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Loretta Lux Study of a Boy 2 2002 C-print Guggenheim Museum, New York |
from Halieutica
Of Nature's Chain how regular the Links!
Matter by slow Gradations downward sinks;
And intermediate Changes gently pass
From lightsome Æther to the dullest Mass.
Or climb by the same Steps from lumpish Clay
To the bright Liquid, and the fine-spun Ray.
Dissolving Earth in fluid Moisture glides,
And rocks transform'd flow down in silver Tides.
Dilating Streams in vap'ry Columns rise,
And sweating Seas will gild the distant Skies.
Dispersing Clouds to nobler Forms aspire,
Refine to Æther, or ferment to Fire.
Things only differ as condense, or rare.
Impurer Skies will thicken into Air;
Air when too gross will falling Drops increase,
And hang in lucid Pearls on weeping Trees.
The glewy Substance, that no longer flows,
Stagnates to Slime; and slimy Matter grows
To earthly Mould, that hard'ning turns to Stone.
So All is diff'rent, and yet All is One.
– Oppian (2nd century AD), translated by William Diaper (1722)