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Explorable Archive of Art from the Romantic Era

Section Editors: Theresa M. Kelley
, Jacob Leveton
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Portraits of Twelve Various Figures

George Cruikshank
In collaboration with Gilbert Abbott à Beckett

Twelve portraits are given in this collection of figures: the second features a woman and two children, while the rest are individual portraits. The members of the dinner party, many portrayed holding wine glasses or utensils, are displayed with dialogue.

Heads of the Table

Henry Kirke White with his mother as a boy

Unknown

This book illustration depicts Henry Kirke White, one of the text's discussed literary celebrities, as a fragile-looking child; consequently, the image alludes to White's early death and the tragically brief duration of his brilliant and promising career.

Henry Kirke White as a Boy

A page of text with an decorated letter "B"

John Thomas Smith

This image features text which, like an illuminated manuscript, begins with a decorated letter. The "B" of the text is carried by a beggar, consequently giving a visual synecdoche of the written topic, "beggary."

Historiated Initial “B”

European Landscape in 1832

Samuel Hibbert, Charlotte Hibbert-Ware
In collaboration with W. Penny

This portrayal of the Eifel mountain range further suggests that Romantic culture was developing an increasingly scientific interest in volcanism.

History of the Extinct Volcanoes of the Basin of Neuwied on the Lower Rhine

An iceberg adhering to an icy reef

Edward Francis Finden

One of two notable images by Sir George Back with a meta-artistic feature (a man sketching in the foreground), "Iceberg Adhering to Icy Reef" depicts the severely difficult landscape of the Canadian Arctic as simultaneously challenging and becalmed.

Iceberg Adhering to Icy Reef, with the View to Seaward

Various illustrations relating to the study of optics

John Emslie

Illustrations of Natural Philosophy highlights the continued amateur interest in investigations of the natural sciences during the Romantic period.

Illustrations of Natural Philosophy, Plate No. 32

Images of Phrenology

George Cruikshank

Phrenology is important to list here not only because of its publication date—so close to that of Cruikshank’s own work—but also because it is characteristic of the larger corpus of phrenological tracts.

Imitation and Approbation

Skull and Bone

Unknown

Among the vast collection of “Sloaniana” in the British Museum, 756 examples of “humana, as calculi, anatomical preparations, &c” were recorded in “An Account of the British Museum,” published in The New London Magazinein July 1788 (378).

Incrustated Scull and Sword

Title page of a text

Unknown
In collaboration with Douglas Graham

A beehive sits atop a thick board, with wild-looking plants growing on either side. Grass grows around the hive's board. Seven bees hover around the top of the hive, with another at the hive's center.

Industry, Honesty and Integrity

Inside of Ashmolean Museum

Orlando Jewitt
In collaboration with William Alfred Delamotte

The engraving depicts the lower room of the “Old Ashmolean” building at the University of Oxford. Various natural specimens, including a giraffe and a dodo, are evident, as well as two groups of large bones in the foreground.

Interior View of the Old Ashmolean

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Jedburgh Abbey, From the South West

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Jedburgh Abbey, Ground Plan

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