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Explorable Archive of Art from the Romantic Era

Section Editors: Theresa M. Kelley
, Jacob Leveton
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Three Men Looking at Moon

James Gillray

This satirical commentary on the Regency Crisis and the madness of George III portrays the leading government officials of the time—Pitt the Younger, Edward Thurlow, and Henry Dundas—as the the three witches from Shakespeare's Macbeth, parodying Fuseli's own depiction o

Weird Sisters

A camp is set up in a foggy icescape

Louis Haghe

A somewhat confounding image of men and their tents in a dense fog, Western View from near mount Barrow is perhaps as close to the so-called Arctic Sublime that Sir George Back comes in his work; and yet, other aspects of the sublime, such as fear, awe, and immensity, are notably missing.

Western View From Near Mount Barrow

museum display that features a variety of taxidermied animal specimens

Rudolph Ackermann

This hand-colored engraving, produced by Rudolph Ackermann in 1810, depicts the second floor of William Bullock’s Museum at 22 Piccadilly, London.

William Bullock’s Museum

View of Wilton Castle

William Gilpin

This depiction of an English ruin along the River Wye is well-balanced: trees gracefully line either bank; in the left background, a cluster of clouds reaches across the river in a figure that reflects the extension of trees from the right bank; and the ruins sit slightly off-center in the m

Wilton Castle

Man Holding Toy

Theodore Lane

This political caricature depicts Queen Caroline as a puppet of her lover Bartolomeo Pergami (aka Bergami). Dorothy George describes the print as follows:

Winding up to a pitch the Automaton Scaramouch, --or-- Harlequin Courier's Delight

A drawing of a bouquet of flowers with a feather to each side of the blue vase

Unknown, Louisa Gilman , Mary Edwards

This page of watercolor painting and cut paper work is found in an album compiled around 1822 and 1823 in honor of a certain Miss [Louisa?] Gilman.

[A floral offering in Miss Gilman’s Album, manuscript, 1822–1823]

A mock-advertisement in the Floral Album: Album of Olive N. Hannum, 1839–1848

Edward Gallaudet, Olive Nickerson Paine

Here, on one of the four engraved and hand-colored pages interspersed among the blank pages of the Floral Album, the engraver has pictured a wreath of flowers formed from pink roses, blue morning glories, a spray of forget-me-nots, pansies, and other blossoms.

[A mock-advertisement in the Floral Album: Album of Olive N. Hannum, 1839–1848]

dried and pressed flowers

Elizabeth (Eliza) Aders

Preserving dried flowers and a scrap of wallpaper, this page is found in the album that was kept over many years by the salonnière and painter Elizabeth (Eliza) Aders.

[A Napoleon Memorial Page in Elizabeth Aders’ Autograph Album]

small paper panels, eight with handwritten labels, and two with watercolor depictions of insects, an arrangement that in its turn frames a watercolor landscape

E. Boyes

Within the elaborate frame printed on one page of the E. Boyes album by the book’s manufacturer, someone has pasted in shiny blue foil so as to form a second frame.

[“A general Beautifier,” in an album belonging to E. Boyes, circa 1835-1848]

Handwritten text on an old yellowing page with a flower on the left side

Catharine Lowe, Norah Lowe

On a page located near the halfway point of an album that was kept between 1827 and 1841 by a Miss Catharine Eliza Lowe, several lines handwritten in black ink accompany a blue ribbon and a pressed cutting of a plant, probably a fern.

[“Forget me not”: page in Miss Catharine Lowe’s album, 1827–1841]

Houghton Blanche Paxton album waterlily poem page

Blanche Paxton, Douglas Jerrold

On this album page a wreath formed of cut-outs of flowers and leaves serves as a frame for a poem composed by the nineteenth-century playwright and humorist Douglas Jerrold and addressed to Annie Paxton, sister to Blanche Paxton, the album’s owner.

[“To Miss Annie Paxton, who drest as a fairy, stood upon a leaf of the Victoria Regina, Chatsworth, 1849,” in the Blanche Paxton Album on William Makepeace Thackeray]

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“Hornet and Peacock”

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