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1. Christie's Auction House

   As the premier art auction house in the nineteenth century, Christie’s was the site for viewing and acquiring art as well as an important social scene. Thus, the auction house was an important alternative to other, less accessible art venues, such as priv ...

   rc-admin - 06/17/2013 - 07:29

2. Goodrich Castle on the Wye

   Thomas Hearne's watercolor "Goodrich Castle on the Wye" aims to recreate its subject in "topographical" detail (S. Fenwick, "Thomas Hearne"). This aspiration suggests that the scene, deemed "correctly Picturesque&qu ...

   rc-admin - 06/16/2013 - 15:40

3. An English Man-of-War Taking Possession of a Ship

   Robert Cleveley was one of many marine artists hired by the navy to create paintings which were sold to the elite in British society. Many similar images were converted into prints and purchased by the general public (N. Tracy, Palette 5, 72). ...

   rc-admin - 06/16/2013 - 18:38

4. A Frigate Awaiting a Pilot

   William Anderson's Frigate is an example of many marine images which portrayed British ships simply existing on the sea. The British flags prominently displayed on both frigates ensure that the observer realizes the connection between this scene and ...

   rc-admin - 06/16/2013 - 18:37

5. Swanage

   William Daniell's hand-colored aquatint illustrates the difficulty of maintaining control of the sea once it had been, in a sense, claimed by Britain's perception of itself as a great maritime power. This difficulty is mirrored in the struggle o ...

   rc-admin - 06/16/2013 - 18:35

6. Hadleigh Castle (Progress Proof b)

   While Constable’s oil paintings sought to simultaneously infuse the landscape with symbolic resonance and stay true to the integrity of the scene being depicted, Constable and Lucas’s English Landscape mezzotints explore completely new possibilities for t ...

   rc-admin - 05/24/2013 - 11:28

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

   John Constable simultaneously extends and ruptures Gilpin’s aesthetic by infusing his landscapes with emotional and symbolic meaning, as well as by experimenting with new compositional techniques. Ronald Paulson unites the paintings of John Constable and ...

   rc-admin - 05/24/2013 - 11:28

8. View in the Roman Forum (The Temple of Peace)

   According to Sophie Thomas’s conceptualization of early travel painting, Louis-Rodolphe Ducros’s View in the Roman Forum (The Temple of Peace) (1779) is a very typical print. Cutting a nearly perfect diagonal across the picture plane from the top left cor ...

   rc-admin - 06/26/2013 - 17:32

9. Hadleigh Castle

   To some extent, the practice of mezzotint mimics Gilpin’s suggestion that the picturesque relies on the reformulation of natural beauty so that it more perfectly mirrors “artificial beauty.” In a note to the reader at the start of the Wye tour, Gilpin est ...

   rc-admin - 05/24/2013 - 11:28

10. Stonehenge

    We begin with an engraving of Stonehenge, created by Robert Wallis after a watercolor by J.M.W. Turner. This image demonstrates the effects of light and dark which will recur throughout this gallery, and which take the viewer gradually into the world of s ...

    rc-admin - 06/16/2013 - 17:55

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