poetry

The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan

Eugène Delacroix · 1826

本阿見光悦書・俵屋宗達下絵　桜下絵和歌色紙　鴨長明 · Poem by Kamo no Chōmei with Underpainting of Cherry Blossoms

Tawaraya Sōtatsu · Hon'ami Kōetsu · dated 1606

池大雅書 「楓橋夜泊」屏風 · "Maple Bridge Night Mooring"

Ike no Taiga · ca. 1770

Songs of Experience: The Tyger

William Blake · [1794] printed ca. 1825

Valentine

Kate Greenaway · 1874

Valentine

Kate Greenaway · 1874

Valentine

Kate Greenaway · 1874

Valentine

Kate Greenaway · 1874

Valentine

Kate Greenaway · 1874

Valentine

Kate Greenaway · 1874

春屋妙葩像 自賛 · Portrait of Shun'oku Myōha

Unidentified artist · ca. 1383

Virgil Reading the "Aeneid" to Augustus, Octavia, and Livia

Jean-Baptiste Wicar · 1790–93

Valentine

Anonymous · Kate Greenaway · 1874

Valentine

Anonymous · Kate Greenaway · ca. 1875

Lady Reading the Letters of Heloise and Abelard

Bernard d'Agesci · c. 1780

Hudibras beats Sidrophel and his man Whacum (Twelve Large Illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras, Plate 8)

Philip Overton · John Cooper · William Hogarth · Samuel Butler · February 1725–26

Manuscript of Kulliyat (Complete Works) by Sa'di with Lacquered Cover

Islamic · Safavid Dynasty (1501-1736), 17th century

Dante's Bark

After Eugène Delacroix · c. 1840–60