The only lithograph included in Alexandre Hogue’s Erosion Series, End of the Trail is one of the artist’s many meditations on the ecological destruction the Dust Bowl inflicted upon the Southwest in the 1930s.

A 1747 description of the art of fan painting in The London Tradesman dismissed it as "an ingenious trifling Branch of the Painting Business.

The article "Luxe," or Luxury, in Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert's Encyclopédie asserts that "[w]ithout an abundance of luxuries, men of all ranks believe themselves to be poor." If this appears a mere truism to us today, it was to 18th -century observers a sign of radical change overtaking their society. Luxury itself was nothing new, of course. It had long been a crucial mode of social differentiation, enforced by sumptuary laws and the marketplace.