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| Anonymous Artist Decorative Tile with art nouveau Fish Motif ca. 1900 glazed earthenware Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Dortmund |
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| Anonymous Artist Fish ca. 1580 woodcut and letterpress Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel |
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| Anonymous Artist Fish ca. 1580 woodcut and letterpress Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel |
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| Anonymous Artist Studies of Whale stranded in River Scheldt near Antorff 1577 hand-colored etching and engraving Graphische Sammlung, Zentralbibliothek Zürich |
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| Giovanni Andrea Maglioli Sea Monster 1608 engraving Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna |
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| Giovanni Andrea Maglioli Sea Monster 1608 engraving Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna |
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| Rudolf Junk Menu Card 1905 color woodblock print Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Roger Reboussin Two Frogs exploring a Crevice 1913 drawing Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Hans Thoma Lizard ca. 1905 drawing (study for print illustration to the ABC Bilderbuch) Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Hans Thoma Turtle ca. 1905 drawing (study for print illustration to the ABC Bilderbuch) Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Anonymous Artist Pressmark of Gabriele Giolito de' Ferrari of Venice ca. 1570 woodcut (phoenix) Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna |
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| Anonymous Artist Dead Birds 18th century design drawing (ornamental motif for the Wiener Porzellanmanufaktur) Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna |
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| Louis Albert Schmidt Still Life with Magpie ca. 1875 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Pau |
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| Édouard Traviès Brazilian Hummingbirds 1857 lithograph Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna |
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| Julius Klinger Hermanns & Froitzheim, Haberdasher 1910 lithograph (poster) Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Natalia Goncharova Peacocks 1912 oil on canvas Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
Such then I find to have been the state of things past, hard to be believed, though one produce proof for every particular thereof. For men receive the report of things, though of their own country if done before their own time, all alike, from one as from another, without examination. . . . So impatient of labour are the most men in search of truth, and embrace the things that are next to hand.
Now he that by the arguments here adduced shall frame a judgment of the things past and not believe rather that they were such as the poets have sung or prose-writers have composed, more delightfully to the ear than conformably to the truth, as being things not to be disproved and by length of time turned for the most part into the nature of fables without credit, but shall think them here searched out by the most evident signs that can be, and sufficiently too, considering their antiquity: he, I say, shall not err. And though men always judge the present war where in they live to be greatest, and when it is past, admire more those that were before it, yet if they consider of this war by the acts done in the same, it will manifest itself to be greater than any of those before mentioned.
. . . But of the acts themselves done in the war, I thought not fit to write all that I heard from all authors nor such as I myself did but think to be true, but only those whereat I was myself present and those of which with all diligence I had made particular inquiry. And yet even of those things it was hard to know the certainty, because such as were present at every action spake not all after the same manner, but as they were affected to the parts or as they could remember.
To hear this history rehearsed, for that there be inserted in it no fables, shall be perhaps not delightful. But he that desires to look into the truth of things done and which (according to the condition of humanity) may be done again, or at least their like, he shall find enough herein to make him think it profitable. And it is compiled rather for an everlasting possession than to be rehearsed for a prize.
– from The Peloponnesian War as written by Thucydides (5th century BC) and translated by Thomas Hobbes (1628) and edited by David Grene (1959)
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