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Explorable Archive of Art from the Romantic Era

Section Editors: Theresa M. Kelley
, Jacob Leveton
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cottage at the foot of a mountain

Joseph Wilkinson
In collaboration with William Frederick Wells

Part of Skiddaw, from Applethwaite Gill.

A woman sits on her chamber pot

James Gillray

Patience on a Monument is a social caricature that made use of traditional romantic aesthetic preferences to mock the presumptions of "high" style. It also chastised its highly public victim, Lady Cecilia Johnstone, and in doing so warned the public of following her example.

Patience on a Monument

Peale lifting a curtain to reveal his museum

Charles Willson Peale

In this self-portrait, artist and curator Charles Willson Peale depicts himself lifting a gold-fringed red curtain to reveal his museum, while inviting the viewer to come forward and enter.

Peale’s American Museum

bridge and boat

Joseph Wilkinson
In collaboration with William Frederick Wells

Penny bridge, between Ulverstone & Conistone; with the tide in.

Peter and Children Surrounded by Flying Figures

Thomas Stothard, Robert Paltock

This image is an illustration for Robert Paltock’s book, The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, a Cornish Man. The scene is not taken directly from the text, but portrays Peter, his children, and three of the flying men he encounters on his journey (Paltock 8).

Peter and his Children Visited by Three Flying Figures

Map of Head

Orson Squire Fowler

The mapped head was associated with phrenology from its earliest publications throughout the nineteenth century. It provided a useful map of the locations on the skull discussed in phrenological tracts.

Phrenological Head

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Phrenological Illustrations

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Phrenology, or, The Doctrine of the Mind

A diagram depicting an Aeolian harp

John Lodge

This image visually depicts the working of sound using the Aeolian harp—an instrument significant to the Romantic imagination—as the primary model. The engraving also includes several scientific diagrams indicating how the harp might function.

Physiological Disquisitions, Plate IV

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Picturesque Views of England and Wales

A gypsy woman confronts a pirate

James Heath
In collaboration with Heinrich Moritz Gottlieb Grellmann

This image depicts the encounter between a pirate and a gypsy, emphasizing their common status as nomadic outcasts at once romanticized and rejected by society.

Pirate and Gypsy

Diagram showing many of the properties of air

Unknown

An illustration in a book of natural philosophy that demonstrates the many properties of air such as air pressure, floatation, hot air balloons. It also shows that the elevation achieved in a hot air balloon surpasses the highest mountains on earth.

Pneumatics

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