Page Title Explore Past Exhibits Filter and Sort Exhibits Title Curator September 2009 This gallery is a virtual stroll through the crowds of Romantic Britain in search of personifications of artistry. As an exercise in flânerie, this gallery juxtaposes and assembles for our view those figures who fashion themselves as artistic through their clothing, conduct, and gestures. Flânerie: Strolling Amongst Aestheticized Selves of the Romantic Period Joanna Beth Lackey October 2023 "The Narrative of the Collection:" Visualizing the Ashmolean and the British Museum through Romantic Era Guidebooks Paul Keen June 2023 Few cultural phenomena captured the popular imagination of late eighteenth-century Britain more intensely than the rage for air ballooning, or the “balloonomania” as critics sometimes called it. “The term balloon is not only in the mouth of every one, but all our world seems to be in the clouds,” declared a 1785 book titled London Unmask’d (137). 'Philosophical Playthings': The Spectacle of Air-Balloons Tim Heimlich October 2023 “Start hence with us, and trace, with raptur’d eye, / The wild meanderings of the beauteous WYE; / Thy ten days leisure ten days joy shall prove, / And rock and stream breathe amity and love” (see Robert Bloomfield's poem, A Visual Revolution on the Wye Tour September 2009 George Cruikshank (1792-1878), who began his long and influential career as a caricaturist and book illustrator at the age of eight, working in his father’s shop, produced a steady output of political prints for over sixty years, although he focus had shifted to book illustration by the mid 1820’s. Cruikshank's Napoleon Deidre Lynch, Faith Pak, Norah Murphy March 2022 In Stéphanie de Genlis’s 1798 novel Les Petits émigrés: ou Correspondance des jeuns enfans (translated in 1799 as The Young Exiles and much reprinted over the next two decades), the young heroine, member of a royalist family that has fled revolutionary France for asylum in a country village near Zurich, sends a gift to a cousin who has remained behind. Forget-me-not: Souvenirs of Girlhood in the Transatlantic Album Kate Fedewa October 2023 George Cruikshank and the Phrenological Head September 2009 During the Romantic era, tourism—and picturesque tourism, in particular—gained popularity across the Continent. Global Gilpin: The Picturesque Takes a Tour August 2009 In late-18th and early-19th century Britain, popular interest in "scenes" that exceed or lie beyond the everyday world was heightened by factors such as the emergence of London as Europe's first world-city; James Cook's and George Vancouver's voyages of discovery, which completed in outline the modern map of the globe; and improvements in transport and communication technologies, which brought Innovations in Encompassing Large Scenes Sophie Thomas, Rhys Juergensen, Erin McCurdy March 2024 This exhibition examines how museum spaces were conceptualized and visually represented in two-dimensional media forms, drawing examples principally from metropolitan London. Many of the museums of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century no longer exist. Inside Out: Representing the Romantic Museum Nicholas Mason, Paul Westover, Shannon Stimpson, Billy M. Hall, Jarom McDonald May 2020 Although enduring interest in Select Views in Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire (1810) has focused almost exclusively on Wordsworth’s anonymous letterpress, the volume’s fundamental raison d’être was the landscape art of the Rev. Joseph Wilkinson. Joseph Wilkinson’s Drawings from Select Views in Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire (1810) August 2023 What does sound look like? How might it be visually represented? Can it be explained in a scientific diagram? This gallery seeks to explore these questions by examining the form and significance of the ways in which the Romantic period sought to incorporate the ephemeral, ineffable, and invisible element of sound into the visual register. Making Sense of Sound Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Next page Next › Last page Last »
