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Governor's House, Uxmal Ruins

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Ruins at Uxmal
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This lithograph depicts a portion of the ruins of Uxmal.

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Uxmal: House of the Dwarf and House of the Nuns

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Ruins at Uxmal
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This image—rendered using a camera lucida—depicts ruins of the city of Uxmal in Mexico.

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Stone Idol, front view (from Copán)

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Stone idol from Copán
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This image—rendered using a camera lucida—depicts a monument from the pre-Columbian Maya city, Xukpi, now known as Copán.

A large stone stela, facing forward, depicts a Maya deity decorated with myriad visual embellishments, its fists clenched upon its chest. The background depicts the small clearing in which the stela now stands, fading back into a thick forest.

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Gigantic Head (from Copán)

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Giant head from Copán
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This image—rendered using a camera lucida—depicts a monument from the pre-Columbian Maya city, Xukpi, now known as Copán.

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A Description of a view of Thebes, now exhibiting at the Panorama, Broadway, corner of Prince and Mercer Streets, New-York

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A description of a view of Thebes
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This image, created by Robert Burford, gives panoramic views of both the Temple of Karnak and the city of Thebes. It was based upon the original drawings of Frederick Catherwood, unique in that they were created with the help of a camera lucida.

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Hadleigh Castle (Progress Proof b)

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Ruins of Hadleigh Castle
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This image depicts the ruins of Hadleigh Castle. A reformulation of Constable's earlier painting of the same scene, this mezzotint explores new possibilities for the symbolic manipulation of landscape, specifically through the application of chiaroscuro. 

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Hadleigh Castle, The Mouth of the Thames--Morning After a Stormy Night

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

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Ruins of the Palace, Madura [Madurai]

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Ruins of the Palace at Madura
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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.

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View in the Roman Forum (The Temple of Peace)

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Ruins of the Temple of Peace
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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.

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Street of Tombs, Pompeii

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

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