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Explorable Archive of Art from the Romantic Era

Section Editors: Theresa M. Kelley
, Jacob Leveton
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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

A man leans towards an older woman and reaches into her pocket

James Gillray

Sitting atop a chest inscribed “Bank of England,” a wrinkled and thin woman dressed in paper one- pound notes throws her hands back as Prime Minister William Pitt (the Younger) reaches into her pocket with his left hand and wraps his right arm around her waste, his legs bent as he thrusts hi

Political Ravishment, or The Old Lady of Threadneedle-Street in Danger!

Canoers paddle in front of a mountainous landscape

Benjamin Thomas Pouncy
In collaboration with William Alexander

This work offers a view of the large group of Alutiiq Indians, carried by a fleet of canoes, who were encountered by Captain George Vancouver and his fleet at Port Dick, Alaska, on 16 May 1794.

Port Dick near Cook’s Inlet

Canoers paddle in front of a mountainous landscape

Benjamin Thomas Pouncy
In collaboration with H. Humphreys

This work offers a view of the large group of Alutiiq Indians, carried by a fleet of canoes, who were encountered by Captain George Vancouver and his fleet at Port Dick, Alaska, on 16 May 1794.

Port Dick near Cook’s Inlet

Men push a small boat out of a river

Edward Francis Finden

One of Sir George Back's most unusual landscapes, Portage in Hoarfrost River is a vertically-oriented image that depicts several men trying to drag their canoe out of the river and up an extremely steep incline.

Portage in Hoarfrost River

A portrait of an Indian woman

Unknown

In the catalogue Indian Miniature Painting, Chandra describes Portrait of a Lady: “The lady wears a pink skirt and a white robe.

Portrait of a Lady

Portrait of Lady Caroline Montagu

George Hayter

This portrait depicts Lady Catherine Montagu as a figure of social unconventionality, sporting a dress reminiscent of both the piratical and the gypsy lifestyle as romanticized by writers of the era.

Portrait of Lady Caroline Montagu in Byronic Costume

A portrait of Lord Byron

Richard Westall
In collaboration with James Barton Longacre

This print portrays Lord Byron as the quintessential Romantic poet, as well as the Byronic hero formulated and featured in his own works.

Portrait of Lord Byron

George III Holding Out Stick

Unknown

George III is portrayed as Prospero the wizard in his long black cloak, holding a book bearing the words “justice” and “integrity” and a long, whip-like wand. He stands on a landmass labeled “Albion,” a tattered French flag under his feet.

Prospero on the Enchanted Island

pyramid

Alexander von Humboldt

Other than maps, this is the only major landscape image Alexander von Humboldt produced in Mexico.

Pyramide de Cholula

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