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Explorable Archive of Art from the Romantic Era

Section Editors: Theresa M. Kelley
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Recollections of the Emperor Napoleon

Illustrations relating to the nature of light

Charles Hutton, Jacques Ozanam

Recreations in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy is an example of the popularization of rational recreations texts in the Romantic period, particularly for use in the home.

Recreations in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, Plate I

An illustration of a sit-in camera obscura

Charles Hutton, Jacques Ozanam

As evidenced in the sustained revision, expansion, and republication of Jacques Ozanam’s original work on recreational experiments from the late seventeenth century to the nineteenth, optical technologies and rational experiments stimulated the Romantic visual imagination and reinforced the emphas

Recreations in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, Plate II

Illustrations showing several light-manipulating devices

Unknown
In collaboration with Charles Hutton

This text and its illustrative plates demonstrate how to create optical instruments for recreational scientific experiments.

Recreations in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, Plate XVII

Illustrations showing several light-manipulating devices

Unknown
In collaboration with Jacques Ozanam

This text and its illustrative plates demonstrate how to create optical instruments for recreational scientific experiments.

Recreations in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, Plate XVII

Chart of Organs

Orson Squire Fowler

This chart provides the "average," "full," "large," "very large," "moderate," "small," and "very small" sizes of the organs measured in each phrenological category.

Relative Size of the Organs and Table of References

Soldiers in thick snow

George Cruikshank
In collaboration with William Combe

This image depicts the retreat of Napoleon and his forces from Moscow, with particular emphasis on the harsh and nightmarish conditions of their journey.

Retreat from Moscow

Six Visuals of Richmond Castle

Unknown

In Passages from the Life of Charles Knight—the abridged, American version of Knight’s three-volume autobiography, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminisces—Knight describes his “awakening feeling for the

Richmond Castle, from the River Swale

River Landscape

William Gilpin

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 and right of the watercolor. The sky is misty with diffused light.

River Landscape with Ruins

A trigonometrial survey of Rome and its environs


In collaboration with William Gell

This image has as its subject the topography of Rome and its environs—their natural, geographical features, as recorded by Gell's trigonometrical survey; and the artificial environment, as it existed in Classical times.

Rome & Its Environs., from a Trigonometrical Survey

Students painting a nude woman at the academy

Thomas Rowlandson

In this image, students of the Royal Academy at Somerset House are trained in the techniques of observing and depicting the female nude.

Royal Academy - Somerset House, London

Ruins of the Palace at Madura

Thomas Daniell
In collaboration with William Daniell

This image depicts the ruins of the palace at Madurai, the oldest city in India. The palace itself was erected in 1636, and is represented here against a new, British-built structure that constitutes the background of the painting.

Ruins of the Palace, Madura [Madurai]

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