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Explorable Archive of Art from the Romantic Era

Section Editors: Theresa M. Kelley
, Jacob Leveton
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Spider Nest

Unknown

While a number of the Rymsdyks' illustrations in Museum Britannicum are visually sparse in terms of the number of specimens depicted and the scale by which they are rendered, this particular plate is replete with four figures that fill almost all of the available space.

Spider's Nest, with the Valve

Coverpiece of Milton Collection, Ship on Stormy Sea

Joseph Mallord William Turner
In collaboration with William Miller

This vignette of the Lycidas sinking off the coast of England illustrates the connection made between the sea and other worlds.

St Michael’s Mount Shipwreck of Lycidas / The Death of Lycidas—Vision on the Guarded Mount

Stone Henge black and white in a storm

Joseph Mallord William Turner, Robert Wallis

In the immediate foreground of the picture plane is a herd of sheep. The sheep are reclining on the ground in manner that suggests that they have either been struck dead or are sleeping. Only several of the sheep are upright.

Stone Henge

Stonehenge

Joseph Mallord William Turner
In collaboration with Robert Wallis

This image depicts the famous ruins of Stonehenge, but does so in a unique way.

Stone Henge

Stone idol from Copán

Stephen Henry Gimber
In collaboration with Frederick Catherwood

This image—rendered using a camera lucida—depicts a monument from the pre-Columbian Maya city, Xukpi, now known as Copán.

Stone Idol, front view (from Copán)

Stonehenge through Clouds

Joseph Mallord William Turner, Robert Wallis

Stonehenge has existed for thousands of years, making it a symbol of permanence and an indication of eras past difficult for humans to comprehend in their extensive entirety.

Stonehenge

fisherman at bridge

Joseph Wilkinson
In collaboration with William Frederick Wells

Stony-croft Bridge, Vale of Newlands.

Street of Tombs in Pompeii

Hannah Palmer

This painting depicts the Street of Tombs in Pompeii, Italy, with Mount Vesuvius in the background.

Street of Tombs, Pompeii

Sketches of several European men

Unknown

The art historian Pramod Chandra gives a description of Studies of European Figures, quoted below:

Studies of European Figures

Two fishemen

Joseph Wilkinson
In collaboration with William Frederick Wells

Stye-head Tarn, with Aron, or Great-End, above Borrowdale.

Two Men Moving Boat to Shore in Storm

William Daniell

William Daniell's hand-colored aquatint illustrates the difficulty of maintaining control of the sea once it had been, in a sense, claimed by Britain's perception of itself as a great maritime power.

Swanage

Inside of Nest

Unknown

The two drawings that comprise this plate are roughly correlated in a more straightforward manner than the vast majority of Rymsdyk’s groupings.

Taylor Bird's Nest

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