Utility

Anonymous German Artist
Design for Candlestick
1551
engraving
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel

Erasmus Horninck
Design for Candlestick with Satyrs
ca. 1570-80
drawing
(print study)
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna

Jakob Wilhelm Heckenauer
Design for Rococo Wall-Light
ca. 1728
engraving
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Benigno Bossi after Ennemond Alexandre Petitot
Vase with Lions
1764
etching
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden

workshop of Francesco Salviati
Design for Vessel with Lion Heads
ca. 1550
drawing
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna

Ignác Bendl
Fantastical Vases
ca. 1690
etching
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna

Giulio Romano
Design for Casket
ca. 1530
drawing
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

Jacques Androuet du Cerceau the Elder
Design for Lidded Cup
ca. 1555
etching
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna

Augustin Hirschvogel
Grotesque Composite Jug
1543
etching
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum,
Braunschweig

Cornelis Floris the Younger
Design for Pitcher
1548
engraving
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna

Cornelis Floris the Younger
Design for Sweetmeat Dish
1548
engraving
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna

Jean Le Pautre
Design Studies for Ewer
ca. 1660
drawing
Kupferstichkabinett,
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden

Susanne Maria von Sandrart after Jean Le Pautre
Vase Design with Fruit Garlands
1678
etching
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Christoph Melchior Roth
Rococo Vase
ca. 1760
etching
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Johann Gottfried Thelott after Martin Engelbrecht
Rococo Vase Design with Marine Elements
ca. 1735
etching
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Johann Jakob Schübler
Design for a Clock
ca. 1730
engraving
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna

The people of Athens being advertised of the state of their army, how it was in distress, and that victual was transported into the island, knew not what they should do to it and feared lest winter should overtake them in their siege, fearing not only that to provide them of necessaries about Peloponnesus, and in a desert place withal, would be a thing impossible, but also that they should be unable to send forth so many things as were requisite, though it were summer; and again, that the parts thereabout being without harbour, there would be no place to lie anchor in against them, but that the watch there ceasing of itself, the men would by that means escape or in some foul weather be carried away in the same boats that brought them meat.  But that which they feared most was that the Lacedaemonians seemed to have some assurance of them already, because they sent no more to negotiate about them.  And they repented now that they had not accepted of the peace.  But Cleon, knowing himself to be the man suspected for hindering the agreement, said that they who brought the news reported not the truth.  Whereupon, they that came thence advising them, if they would not believe it, to send to view the estate of the army, he and Theogenes were chosen by the Athenians to view it.  But when he saw that he must of force either say as they said whom he before calumniated or, saying the contrary, be proved a liar, he advised the Athenians, seeing them inclined of themselves to send thither greater forces than they had before thought to do, that it was not fit to send to view the place nor to lose their opportunity to delay; but if the report seemed unto them to be true, they should make a voyage against those men; and glanced at Nicias, the son of Niceratus, then general, upon malice and with the language of reproach, saying it was easy, if the leaders were men, to go and take them there in the island; and that himself, if he had the command, would do it.

– from The Peloponnesian War as written by Thucydides (5th century BC) and translated by Thomas Hobbes (1628) and edited by David Grene (1959)