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Various Phrenological Models 2 This image provides multiple illustrations of skulls and famous busts, providing measurements for each by which organ size can be determined. Note especially the famous political figures, as well as... Artist Unknown Author: Fowler, Orson Squire 1847	Mountain Landscape with a Hollow Painter: Cozens, Alexander 1770	Boats in a Swell Among Ice The image portrays a sea dark with swells—no whitecaps—interrupted by large, sharp-edged, wildly-shaped icebergs that have been carved out at their bases by the incessant motion of the waves. Two... Engraver: Finden, Edward Francis Delineator: Back, Sir George 1828	Untitled (Tav. 1; Pyramid at El Tajín) The pyramid at El Tajín is shown in three-quarter view. It is a step-pyramid with six levels and a staircase leading from the ground to the top platform. The sky is blank over a completely flat... Delineator: Marquez, Pedro José 1804	Street of Tombs, Pompeii During the latter part of their honeymoon in 1837-38, Hannah Palmer and her husband Samuel, also a painter and a follower of William Blake, spent much time sketching at Pompeii. For this view, she... Painter: Palmer, Hannah 1838
The Printing Machine In this drawing of a printing machine patented by “Messrs. Applegath and Cowper,” two men work at the press while one man operates a fly-wheel pulley system. The figure at the back of the machine... Artist Unknown Author: Ure, Andrew 1839	The Balloon Prospect Over Helsbye Hill in Chester “The balloon over Helsbye-Hill in Chester, at half past II on Thursday the 8th of September, 1785. It is seen in the southwest quarter. The view was taken in a high field, at the end of Sutton-... Engraver: Sharp, William Delineator: Stothard, Thomas, Newton, R. Author: Baldwin, Thomas 1 May 1786	The Marquise de Peze and the Marquise de Rouget with her Two Children Painter: Vigée-Lebrun, Louise Élisabeth 1787	George Washington Painter: Stuart, Gilbert 1795	Bridge of Lodi This image depicts a battle between the French and the Austrians. The Austrians are situated primarily on the left side of the bridge while the French are on the right. The Austrians are wearing... Engraver: Cruikshank, George Delineator: Cruikshank, George Author: Combe, William 28 November 1814
Studies of European Figures The art historian Pramod Chandra gives a description of Studies of European Figures, quoted below: [A] study sheet shows four European figures, one of them seated on a chair and... Artist Unknown 1850	The Trwe Effigies of James Whitney, the Notorious Highwayman. A man, imprisoned, sits in the corner of a cell next to a barred window through which two figures stare. The captive wears a large brimmed hat, long curled wig, and cravat, which date the sitter to... Artist Unknown Author: Caulfield, James 1819	Governor Pitt's Brilliant Diamond, & c The central image, figure 9, depicts one half of an Egyptian pebble, the interior of which seems to contain the image of a small, white face. This large, oblong pebble is encircled by other, much... Delineator: Rymsdyk, Jan van 1791	Grand Woody Banks near Ross-on-Wye The river bends to the right, wrapping around bushes and a tree in the right foreground. To the left, more shrubbery and trees border a ruined house or manor. In the background, non-detailed, wooded... Illustrator: Gilpin, William 1782	Doctor Syntax Drawing After Nature Dr. Syntax is in the center of the print, sitting on an overturned washtub and drawing in his sketchbook. In front of him to the left are a bevy of farm animals, including Syntax’s own donkey,... Delineator: Rowlandson, Thomas Author: Combe, William 1 May 1812
Recreations in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, Plate XVII “Plate XVII” features ten figures that accompany a section of the text discussing optical illusions and tricks. Figures 52 and 53 depict an illusion using decanters of water and a concave mirror.... Artist Unknown Author: Hutton, Charles, Ozanam, Jacques 1803	Outlines of Experiments and Inquiries Respecting Sound and Light, Plate VI This image uses scientific diagrams to depict sound waves and vibrational patterns. The specific phenomena depicted by the various figures and the import of these depictions are discussed at length... Engraver: Basire, James Author: Young, Thomas 1800	Margaret Finch (Queen of the Gypsies at Norwood) In a small, dark, cave-like dwelling, a woman with a creased brow and elongated nose sits crouched with her knees to her chest. She wears a white bonnet and large cloak, and she smokes a slender clay... Engraver: Cook Author: Caulfield, James 1820	Interior View of the Old Ashmolean The engraving depicts the lower room of the “Old Ashmolean” building at the University of Oxford. Various natural specimens, including a giraffe and a dodo, are evident, as well as two groups of... Engraver: Jewitt, Orlando Delineator: Delamotte, William Alfred 1 December 1834	The Balloon Over Hellsbye Hill in Cheshire Writing in Airopaidia: Containing the Narrative of a Balloon Excursion (1786), Thomas Baldwin describes this view as "taken in a high Field, at the End of Sutton-Causeway," while... Artist Unknown Author: Baldwin, Thomas 5 January 1786
Grave par Beauble This image, like Cavallo’s image of the process for inflating hot air balloons, was a popular element of accounts of balloon in late eighteenth-century print culture. Its focus on the means by which... Artist Unknown 14 January 1784	Mrs. Richard Yates Painter: Stuart, Gilbert 1793	St Michael’s Mount Shipwreck of Lycidas / The Death of Lycidas—Vision on the... A ship is tipped towards the viewer, almost completely submerged by a wave crashing over it. Only the main mast, part of a second mast, and a sliver of the deck rise above the tumultuous water. Men... Engraver: Miller, William Illustrator: Turner, Joseph Mallord William 1835	Richmond Castle, from the River Swale 360.—Richmond Castle, from the River Swale, placed in the bottom left corner of page eighty nine, depicts the castle as seen from the banks of the Swale river. A bridge extends from the... Artist Unknown Editor: Knight, Charles c. Early 19th century	The Queen of Candy The Queen of Candy, the Candian king’s daughter, poses in a chair, legs crossed, against a mountainous landscape. Her elongated neck is covered with exotic, shell-like jewelry. Her hair is bound... Painter: Daniell, William Engraver: Woodman, Richard 10 January 1833
The Great Pagoda, Tanjor Painter: Daniell, Thomas Engraver: Daniell, Thomas 1795	The Fashionable Mamma,—or—the Convenience of Modern Dress A viscountess sits between a portrait of a peasant woman breastfeeding a baby, the frame of which reads “Maternal Love,\" and a window revealing a carriage waiting outside, its attendant holding its... Engraver: Gillray, James Delineator: Gillray, James 15 February 1796	Brick from the Tower of Babel The top image ("Fig. 1") depicts a brick, believed to be taken from the Tower of Babel. "Fig. 2" and "Fig. 3" each depict a canopic jar, or "canopus"; these were vases used by the ancient Egyptians... Delineator: Rymsdyk, Jan van 1791	A Dandy Fainting or – An Exquisite in Fits. Scene a Private Box Opera— A dandy has fainted and leans back in a chair with his limbs straight out, while three other dandies support him and a fourth closes a curtain. Beyond the curtain we can see a castrato opera singer... Delineator: Cruikshank, Isaac 11 1818	River Landscape with Ruins The landscape contains a winding river that passes by a group of ruined castles in the distance. In the foreground is a mass of trees on the left and groups of bushes and small trees in the center... Painter: Gilpin, William 1770
Foggy Island A man, apparently one of the “Esquimaux,” stands in the right quarter of the frame with a club on his shoulder, looking directly at the artist/viewer. He is on a beach. Against the foggy sky in the... Engraver: Finden, Edward Francis Delineator: Back, Sir George 1828	Keelmen Heaving Coals by Moonlight “To the right, the keelmen and the dark, flat-bottomed keels that carried the coal from Northumberland and Durham down the River Tyne are silhouetted against the orange and white flames from the... Painter: Turner, Joseph Mallord William 1835	Relative Size of the Organs and Table of References This chart provides the "average," "full," "large," "very large," "moderate," "small," and "very small" sizes of the organs measured in each phrenological category. Artist Unknown Author: Fowler, Orson Squire 1847	My Mother's Grave A girl is sitting on a large grave in a cemetery, looking down. Behind her a large tree is depicted, a few tombstones, and a church. From beyond a fence bordering one side of the churchyard, a woman... Artist Unknown Author: Sigourney, Lydia Howard Huntley 1834	[A mock-advertisement in the Floral Album: Album of Olive N. Hannum, 1839–1848] Here, on one of the four engraved and hand-colored
		A good-looking young woman, looking

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