Vellum

Cosmè Tura
St Francis receiving the Stigmata
ca. 1470-80
tempera and gold on vellum (manuscript illumination)
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Jan Baptist Weenix
The Three Fates among Ruins
ca. 1645
gouache on vellum
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Johan Thopas
Portrait of Gijsbert van der Hoven
1657
graphite on vellum (plumbago)
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Samuel Cooper
Miniature Portrait of a Young Man
ca. 1660-65
watercolor on vellum
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Samuel Cooper
Miniature Portrait of Henry Jermyn, Baron Dover
1667
watercolor on vellum
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Johan Thopas
Portrait of a Woman
ca. 1670
graphite on vellum (plumbago)
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Simon de Vos
The Taking of Christ
before 1676
oil on vellum
Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille

Johan Thopas
Portrait of a Man
1684
graphite on vellum (plumbago)
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Johan Thopas
Portrait of a Woman
1684
graphite on vellum (plumbago)
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Anonymous English Artist
Miniature Portrait of a Man
ca. 1685
watercolor on vellum
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Johan Thopas
Portrait of Ida Block
1688
graphite on vellum (plumbago)
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Thomas Forster
Miniature Portrait of Margaret Harcourt
1708
graphite on vellum (plumbago)
British Museum

Cornelis Troost
Self Portrait
1745
gouache on vellum
Mauritshuis, The Hague

Elisabeth Geertruida Wassenbergh
Self Portrait
1754
watercolor on vellum
Groninger Museum, Netherlands

Phoebe Anna Traquair
Two Illuminated Leaves - Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
ca. 1894-96
watercolor and gold on vellum
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh

Phoebe Anna Traquair
Illuminated Leaf from
Collection of Reproductions of Medallions
1897
watercolor and gold on vellum
University of Edinburgh Library

Idelle Weber
It's a Business
ca. 1967-69
watercolor, collage and chalk on vellum
private collection

Crossing alone the nighted ferry

        With the one coin for fee,

Whom, on the wharf of Lethe waiting,

        Count you to find?  Not me.

The brisk fond lackey to fetch and carry,

        The true, sick-hearted slave,

Expect him not in the just city

        And free land of the grave.

– A.E. Housman (1859-1936)