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Johann Zoffany, The Academicians of the Royal Academy, 1771–72 (Royal Academy, London)

Benjamin West, The Death of General Wolfe, 1770 (National Gallery of Canada)

Angelica Kauffmann, Invention, Composition, Design, and Color, 1778–80 (Royal Academy)
Sir Joshua Reynolds, Three Ladies Adorning a Term of Hymen, 1773 (Tate)

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, The House of Cards, ca. 1750 (Uffizi, Florence)

Antoine Watteau, Embarkation for Cythera, 1717 (Louvre)

Canaletto, Piazza San Marco, late 1720s (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Pietro Longhi, Exhibition of a Rhinoceros at Venice, 1751 (National Gallery, London)

Johann Zoffany, Tribuna of the Uffizi, 1772–78 (Royal Collections Trust)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Vedute di Roma [Views of Rome], 1776

Giovanni Paolo Pannini, Ancient Rome and Modern Rome, ca. 1757 (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, Goethe in the Roman Campagna, 1787 (Städel Museum, Frankfurt)

Jacques de Lajoüe, Naufrage, from Livre Nouveau de Douze Morceaux de Fantaisie, 1730s (Bibliothèque d’INHA)

Russian, probably Velikiy Ustyug, Table snuffbox, 1750 (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Germain Boffrand, Hôtel de Soubise, Salon ovale de la princesse, 1735

François Boucher, Portrait of Madame de Pompadour, 1756 (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

William Hogarth, The Harlot’s Progress, 1732 (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

American (Philadelphia), High Chest of Drawers, 1762–65 (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Robert Adam, The Landsdowne Dining Room, ca.1765 (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Benjamin West, Agrippina Landing at Brundisium with the Ashes of Germanicus, 1768 (Yale University Art Gallery)

Jacques-Louis David, Oath of the Horatii, 1785 (Louvre)

Thomas Gainsborough, Ignatius Sancho, ca. 1768 (National Gallery of Canada)

Thomas Jefferson, Virginia State Capitol, Richmond, Virginia, 1788

Jean-Antoine Houdon, George Washington, 1788–92 (Virginia State Capitol)

Porcelain Room, Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin, 1706

Soup dish, ca. 1733 (Royal Museums Greenwich)

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, Coffee Pot with Lid, ca. 1710–13 (V&A)

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, Vase with Cover and Lizard, ca. 1725 (Frick Collection)

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, Lion and Lioness, ca. 1732 (Met Museum)

William and Mary Style High Chest of Drawers, made in Boston, Massachusetts, Black walnut, maple, poplar, hickory, white pine, 1700–1730 (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Queen Anne Style Japanned Chest of Drawers, made Boston, Massachusetts, maple and white pine, ca. 1747 (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Thomas Chippendale, The Gentleman and Cabinet-maker’s Director, 1754 (Smithsonian Institution)

Side Chair, made London, mahogany, ca. 1755–60 (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Side Chair, made Philadelphia, mahogany, white cedar, yellow pine, ca. 1760–75 (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

John Singleton Copley, Mrs. John Winthrop, 1773 (MFA Boston)

Johann Heinrich Köhler, Nautilus cup with coral prongs, 1724 (State Art Collections, Dresden)

Georg Christoph Dinglinger (goldsmith), Noli Me Tangere, coral figures probably made in Trapani ca. 1700; metalwork ca. 1733 (State Art Collections, Dresden)

Coral-encrusted spar and Man-o’-war, from Hans Sloane, A Voyage to the Islands of Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christopher, and Jamaica, vol. 1 (1707)

Unidentified artist, Germany, Pearl Figure of a Black African Captive, ca. 1700–1720 (The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore)

Willian Grainger, The Voyage of the Sable Venus, from Angola to the West Indies, 1794

Carl Linnaeus, Hortus Cliffortianus, 1737 (published 1738)
(Artist: Georg Ehret; engraver: Jan Wandelaar)
Frontispiece

Carl Linnaeus, Hortus Cliffortianus, 1737 (published 1738)
(Artist: Georg Ehret; engraver: Jan Wandelaar)
Tab. V: Collinsonia

Carl Linnaeus, Hortus Cliffortianus, 1737 (published 1738)
(Artist: Georg Ehret; engraver: Jan Wandelaar)
Tab. X: Turnera e petiole florens, foliis serratis.

George Dionysius Ehret, Methodus Plantarum Sexualis in Sistemate Naturae Descripta. From Carl Linnaeus, Genera Plantarum (Leiden, 1737).

William Bartram, Round Leafed Nymphea as Flowering. Colocasia, pen-and-ink drawing, ca. 1767 (The Natural History Museum, London)

John Ellis, Venus’s Fly-trap, hand-colored etching printed in Directions for Bringing over Seeds and Plants (1770)

Luis de Mena, Virgin de Guadalupe and Castas, 1750 (Muséo de America, Madrid)