This image depicts the ruins of Hadleigh Castle in Essex, England.

This image depicts the ruins of the palace at Madurai, the oldest city in India. The palace itself was erected in 1636, and is represented here against a new, British-built structure that constitutes the background of the painting.

Cutting a nearly perfect diagonal across the picture plane from the top left corner, the ruins of the Temple of Peace, or Basilica of Maxentius, loom large on the canvas, casting a shadow on the groups of peasants and ghosts that have gathered at the foot of the ruin.

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

A view of the ruins of Tintern Abbey.

This image depicts the famous ruins of Stonehenge, but does so in a unique way. A line-engraving of J.M.W Turner’s Stone Henge, it is an image that simultaneously adheres to notions of the Romantic picturesque and undermines the expectations of the artistic technique made popular by Gilpin.

Dr. Syntax falls backward off his rocky seat into the water. Though his hat has fallen into the water, he still clutches his pen and journal: he has evidently been sketching the moss-covered ruins of the castle crowning the small hill before him. To the right of the ruin a ship sails on the water, more hills rising behind it in the distance. On the left side of the print, Dr.

The work depicts a “building designed in imitation of the ruins of a church or chapel…intended to be placed, as those houses generally are, by the side of a piece of still water…or built by the side of a river… in a retired part of a gentleman’s estate, who farms his own land, and has an extensive dairy-farm under his own direction, and who would build it to be at one and the same time an objec

The landscape contains a winding river that passes by a group of ruined castles in the distance. In the foreground is a mass of trees on the left and groups of bushes and small trees in the center and right of the watercolor. The sky is misty with diffused light.