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| Frank William Warwick Topham Roman Triumph 1883 oil on canvas Leicester Museum and Art Gallery, East Midlands |
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| Theodor van Thulden after Peter Paul Rubens Triumphal Car of Calloo 1641 etching (book illustration) British Museum |
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| Andrea Vaccaro Triumph of David before 1670 oil on canvas Museo di Capodimonte, Naples |
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| Carle Vanloo Victory of Alexander over Porus ca. 1738 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Balthasar Wigand Napoleon at Schönbrunn ca. 1810 gouache on paper private collection |
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| Sèvres Manufactory (designed by Marie-Philippe Coupin de La Couperie) Allegory of the Victory at Eylau 1809 porcelain plaque Musée du Louvre |
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| Mathieu Jacquet Figure of Victory 1597 marble relief (fragment of chimneypiece) Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous French Sculptor Figure of Victory with Arms and Captives ca. 1601 marble relief (tomb element) Musée du Louvre |
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| Adam Willaerts Dutch Victory of 1607 over the Spanish at Gibraltar 1617 oil on panel Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Witold Wojtkiewicz Abduction of the King's Daughter 1908 tempera on canvas National Museum, Warsaw |
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| Francesco Vellani Abduction of Helen before 1768 drawing Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Francesco Vellani Abduction of Helen before 1768 oil on canvas Warburg Institute, London |
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| Joseph-Marie Vien Abduction of Proserpine 1767 oil on canvas Musée de Grenoble |
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| Antonio Tempesta Abduction of Proserpine ca. 1605 drawing private collection |
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| Augustinus Terwesten after Gianlorenzo Bernini Pluto abducting Proserpine 1676 drawing Universitaire Bibliotheken, Leiden |
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| Christoph Unterberger Centaur Nessus abducting Dejanira 1784-86 fresco Sala di Ercole, Villa Borghese, Rome |
from The City of Dreadful Night
Surely I write not for the hopeful young,
Or those who deem their happiness of worth,
Or such as pasture and grow fat among
The shows of life and feel nor doubt nor dearth,
Or pious spirits with a God above them
To sanctify and glorify and love them,
Or sages who foresee a heaven on earth.
For none of these I write, and none of these
Could read the writing if they deigned to try:
So may they flourish, in their due degrees,
On our sweet earth and in their unplaced sky.
If any cares for the weak words here written,
It must be some one desolate, Fate-smitten,
Whose faith and hope are dead, and who would die.
– James Thomson (1880)