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Explorable Archive of Art from the Romantic Era

Section Editors: Theresa M. Kelley
, Jacob Leveton
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Black and white image composed of Ionic column capitals from various buildings in Rome.

Giambattista Piranesi

This composite image assembles Ionic column capitals from various buildings in Rome in order to argue for the superiority and the magnificence of Roman as opposed to Greek architecture. His argument relies on fragments of texts and buildings.

Roman Ionic Capitals

A trigonometrial survey of Rome and its environs


In collaboration with William Gell

This image has as its subject the topography of Rome and its environs—their natural, geographical features, as recorded by Gell's trigonometrical survey; and the artificial environment, as it existed in Classical times.

Rome & Its Environs., from a Trigonometrical Survey

Black and white engraving depicting a large stone arch with dilpidated stone behind it.

Giambattista Piranesi

This engraving depicts a ruined architectural interior that opens to the sky even as it is emphatically enclosed by successive archways that are overgrown with draping vines.

Rovine d’una Galleria di Statue nella Villa Adriana a Tivoli

Students painting a nude woman at the academy

Thomas Rowlandson

In this image, students of the Royal Academy at Somerset House are trained in the techniques of observing and depicting the female nude.

Royal Academy - Somerset House, London

Ruins of the Palace at Madura

Thomas Daniell
In collaboration with William Daniell

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.

Ruins of the Palace, Madura [Madurai]

A man approaching a woman who is pushing a wheelbarrow full of carrots

James Gillray

At the corner of Little Maddox Street and New Bond Street, a smirking and red-cheeked Lord Sandwich approaches from behind and fondles a young barrow woman selling carrots. The woman’s body is voluptuous and her toe points daintily to the ground as she looks back over her shoulder compliantly.

Sandwich-Carrots! Dainty Sandwich Carrots

woman walking with child

Joseph Wilkinson
In collaboration with William Frederick Wells

Scale, or Skell-gill Farm House, above Portinscale.

Boat near French Coast

Richard Parkes Bonington

Richard Parkes Bonington's Seapiece is an example of Romantic-era depictions of the sea as an unpredictable force. The motion of the waves and the leaning of the smaller vessels help to create this effect.

Seapiece: Off the French Coast

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Seaport at Sunset

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Shields on the River Tyne

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Shipping Off the Dutch Coast

Watercolor of the Leverian Museum

Sarah Stone, Unknown

This watercolor, copied ca. 1835 from Sarah Stone’s original—made on site in 1786—depicts Sir Ashton Lever’s museum, or “Holophusicon.” Making effective use of one-point perspective, the drawing depicts the long series of rooms comprising the upper floor of the museum.

Sir Ashton Lever’s Holophusicon

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