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Explorable Archive of Art from the Romantic Era

Section Editors: Theresa M. Kelley
, Jacob Leveton
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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

View of Raglan Castle

Unknown

The façade of a brick structure—with a sidewall jutting out to form a kind of corner—and a tree with a serpentine trunk take up the right half of the oval-shaped image. Light shining through the arched portal punctuates the façade and illumines the patch of grass before the entrance.

Raglan Castle

A scene from the Hindu Ramayana

Unknown

This scene depicts the return of Rama and Sita from exile as narrated in the the Hindu epic, The Ramayana. A recurring theme in this image (found in many Indian works) is the idea of a divine king (chakravartin).

Raja Jagat Prakash of Sirmur (Chandra, 1971); also been referred to as Rama and Sita with Raja Jagat Prakash (Vajracharya, 2002)

Illustrations explaining various properties of light

John Lodge
In collaboration with William Hooper

Hooper's text and its images describe how to create optical instruments for recreational scientific experiments.

Rational Recreations, Plate III

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