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Explorable Archive of Art from the Romantic Era

Section Editors: Theresa M. Kelley
, Jacob Leveton
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View of Raglan Castle

Unknown

The façade of a brick structure—with a sidewall jutting out to form a kind of corner—and a tree with a serpentine trunk take up the right half of the oval-shaped image. Light shining through the arched portal punctuates the façade and illumines the patch of grass before the entrance.

Raglan Castle

A scene from the Hindu Ramayana

Unknown

This scene depicts the return of Rama and Sita from exile as narrated in the the Hindu epic, The Ramayana. A recurring theme in this image (found in many Indian works) is the idea of a divine king (chakravartin).

Raja Jagat Prakash of Sirmur (Chandra, 1971); also been referred to as Rama and Sita with Raja Jagat Prakash (Vajracharya, 2002)

Illustrations explaining various properties of light

John Lodge
In collaboration with William Hooper

Hooper's text and its images describe how to create optical instruments for recreational scientific experiments.

Rational Recreations, Plate III

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Recollections of the Emperor Napoleon

Illustrations relating to the nature of light

Charles Hutton, Jacques Ozanam

Recreations in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy is an example of the popularization of rational recreations texts in the Romantic period, particularly for use in the home.

Recreations in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, Plate I

An illustration of a sit-in camera obscura

Charles Hutton, Jacques Ozanam

As evidenced in the sustained revision, expansion, and republication of Jacques Ozanam’s original work on recreational experiments from the late seventeenth century to the nineteenth, optical technologies and rational experiments stimulated the Romantic visual imagination and reinforced the emphas

Recreations in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, Plate II

Illustrations showing several light-manipulating devices

Unknown
In collaboration with Charles Hutton

This text and its illustrative plates demonstrate how to create optical instruments for recreational scientific experiments.

Recreations in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, Plate XVII

Illustrations showing several light-manipulating devices

Unknown
In collaboration with Jacques Ozanam

This text and its illustrative plates demonstrate how to create optical instruments for recreational scientific experiments.

Recreations in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, Plate XVII

Chart of Organs

Orson Squire Fowler

This chart provides the "average," "full," "large," "very large," "moderate," "small," and "very small" sizes of the organs measured in each phrenological category.

Relative Size of the Organs and Table of References

Soldiers in thick snow

George Cruikshank
In collaboration with William Combe

This image depicts the retreat of Napoleon and his forces from Moscow, with particular emphasis on the harsh and nightmarish conditions of their journey.

Retreat from Moscow

Six Visuals of Richmond Castle

Unknown

In Passages from the Life of Charles Knight—the abridged, American version of Knight’s three-volume autobiography, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminisces—Knight describes his “awakening feeling for the

Richmond Castle, from the River Swale

River Landscape

William Gilpin

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.

River Landscape with Ruins

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