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Explorable Archive of Art from the Romantic Era

Section Editors: Theresa M. Kelley
, Jacob Leveton
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drawbridge

Giambattista Piranesi

Piranesi’s Carcerid’Invenzione is a series of 16 menacing, mysterious etchings that depict impossible architectural structures inhabited by laboring, manacled, or tortured men. The series originally appeared in the 1740s as Invenzioni capric.

The Drawbridge

An explanatory print of Baldwin's balloon flight

Unknown

An aerial map of rural Chester identifying the specific geographic details of Baldwin’s route during his flight.

The Explanatory Print

Angels falling from Heaven

John Milton, John Martin

John Martin was one of the most popular artists of his day. The artist Thomas Cole, the author Victor Hugo, and the composer Hector Berlioz all drew inspiration from Martin’s work. He was one of the few painters who did his own engravings.

The Fall of the Rebel Angels

A woman breastfeeds her child

James Gillray

A viscountess sits between a portrait of a peasant woman breastfeeding a baby, the frame of which reads “Maternal Love," and a window revealing a carriage waiting outside, its attendant holding its door open.

The Fashionable Mamma,—or—the Convenience of Modern Dress

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The Heads of the Table

A page of text depicting an Indian woman and her baby

Unknown

In this image, a Hindu woman abandons her baby in a basket hung from a tree. The illustration serves as a counterexample to the moral lesson of the accompanying text, while also serving as an example of the absence of "Christian" virtue in "pagan" cultures.

The Hindoo Woman and her Babe

Illustrations explaining various properties of light

Unknown
In collaboration with Joseph Priestley

“Plate II” features seven illustrations to accompany the sections of Priestley’s text, entitled “Period I: The Revival of Letters in Europe,” and “Period II: From the Revival of letters in Europe to the discoveries of Snellius and Descartes.” Figure 10 illustrated a parabolic mirror or burni

The History and Present State of Discoveries Relating to Vision, Light, and Colours, Plate II

A butcher's family

Thomas Rowlandson

In this busy scene, the young Miss Marrowfat entertains the family (and whoever else may happen to enter the butcher shop, apparently) with the musical "skills" she has acquired at boarding school.

The Hopes of the Fammily, or Miss Marrowfat at Home for the Holidays

Two Ships at Sea

This engraving portrays a battle during the War of 1812. This battle, like others in which Americans defeat the British at sea, was taken up as a subject by various American artists. One other example is Michele Felice Cornè's USS “Hornet” Sinking HMS “Peacock,” 1813.

The Hornet and Peacock

Water-color of museum with several fossilized skeletons

Thomas Hosmer Shepherd

This image documents the “Crystal Room” of the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) as it was arranged in 1842.

The Hunterian Museum

A woman stands at a fruit vendor's stall

William Daniell
In collaboration with Richard Woodman

In this engraving, William Daniell draws on different elements of Indian mythology—accounts of holy banyan trees as well as images of yakshi, goddesses closely associated with the fertility of nature—to portray a woman fruit seller as occupying a potential site of sancitity.

The Indian Fruit Seller

Moths

Unknown

In this image, the fantastical and the scientific are combined to make the subject matter of the accompanying text more appealing to a young audience.

The Invitation

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