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Explorable Archive of Art from the Romantic Era

Section Editors: Theresa M. Kelley
, Jacob Leveton
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one person walking and another on horseback headed toward a lake

Joseph Wilkinson
In collaboration with William Frederick Wells

Bassenthwaite Lake from Embleton Vale

drawing of a rosebud

Unknown, Sarah Schenck, B. F. (Benjamin Furguson?), Walter Scott

At the center of this page an unknown artist has painted in watercolor two pink roses growing from a single stem--one almost in full bloom, the other just beginning to bud—and entwined it with a blue and yellow bloom (perhaps a passion flower).

[Rosebud page in Sarah Schenck album, manuscript, 1826-1842] 

floral design with script

Lydia (?) Tillinghast, Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney

On this album page, a hand-colored engraving images three kinds of flowering plants.

[“Hagar” in a Scriptural Album with Floral Illustrations: manuscript, 1844-1845]

Interior of Westminster Abbey


In collaboration with William Combe

This illustration, created by John White to accompany William Combe's written history of Westminster, gives an interior view of the Abbey and depicts several of its monuments.

9th. 10th. & 11th. Windows North Aisle

Bird's-eye view from a balloon

Thomas Baldwin's "Balloon Excursion from Chester, on the eighth of September, 1785." Baldwin had earlier been unable to fund by subscription the construction of a balloon (Thébaud-Sorger 47).

A Balloon Prospect from above the Clouds

Watercolor Landscape of Capriccio, Italy

Paul Sandby

As noted by curator Andrew Stevens (Chazen Museum, University of Wisconsin), this “painting is a pastiche of second-hand Italianate architecture and geography imagery supplemented with the artist's own knowledge of Welsh mountain vistas.

A Capriccio Landscape

Illustrations of various image-making machines

Unknown
In collaboration with Robert Smith

“Plate 57” features seven illustrations to accompany Chapters XV, XVI, and XVII of Book III in A Compleat System of Opticks; these chapters describe the science behind a variety of optical and image-making machines.

A Compleat System of Opticks in Four Books, Plate 57

Piece of Coral Shaped like a Hand

Unknown

It is difficult to discern a rationale for the Rymsdyks’ decision to associate these two drawings and thus, to discern these two objects from the collections of the British Museum.

A Coral Hand

A man being supported by his friends after fainting

Isaac Cruikshank

This print depicts a dandy, emotionally overcome by the performance of a castrato opera singer, fainting in the company of his friends, four other dandies.

A Dandy Fainting or – An Exquisite in Fits. Scene a Private Box Opera—

A description of a view of Thebes

Robert Burford, Frederick Catherwood

This image, created by Robert Burford, gives panoramic views of both the Temple of Karnak and the city of Thebes. It was based upon the original drawings of Frederick Catherwood, unique in that they were created with the help of a camera lucida.

A Description of a view of Thebes, now exhibiting at the Panorama, Broadway, corner of Prince and Mercer Streets, New-York

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A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines

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