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Explorable Archive of Art from the Romantic Era

Section Editors: Theresa M. Kelley
, Jacob Leveton
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USS “Hornet” Sinking HMS “Peacock,” 1813

Ruins at Uxmal


In collaboration with Frederick Catherwood

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

Uxmal: House of the Dwarf and House of the Nuns

Vale

Joseph Wilkinson
In collaboration with William Frederick Wells

Vale of the Lune, Lonsdale, looking towards Ingleborough Hill & Hornby Castle.

Various Skull Sizes

Orson Squire Fowler

This image provides multiple illustrations of skulls and famous busts, providing measurements for each by which organ size can be determined. Note especially the famous political figures, as well as the attention paid to notorious criminals.

Various Phrenological Models

various skulls

Orson Squire Fowler

This image provides multiple illustrations of skulls and famous busts, providing measurements for each by which organ size can be determined. Note especially the famous political figures, as well as the attention paid to notorious criminals. 

Various Phrenological Models 2

Black and white etching of a detailed urn.

Piranesi’s interest in Roman antiquity, though concentrated on its architecture, also included domestic and ornamental objects.

Vaso Antico di Marmo

Black and white engraving of a stone facade with multiple archways featuring people walking in the scene.

Known as the Porta Maggiore or Porta Prenestina, this magnificent gate lies at the convergence of eight aqueducts and two ancient roads.

Veduta del Monumento

Black and white engraving depicting ruins, tombs, and masonry with subjects exploring the space.

Piranesi’s Antichità Romane is a four-volume work whose images depict ruins, tombs, bridges, and masonry in vedute, plans, cross-sections, and close-ups.

Veduta della Camera

Black and white engraving depicting a stone fountain inside a grandiose building with onlookers exploring the cavernous interior.

Giambattista Piranesi

Veduta della fonte e delle Spelonche d’Egeria fuor della porta Capena or di San SebastianoIn this view, Piranesi depicts the sacred fountain grotto associated with Egeria, the water nymph who was thought to have advised Numa Pompilius, the second king of Rome. For subsequent genera

Veduta della Fonte

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Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore

A page of a grammar lesson about verbs

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This image serves to visually illustrate and explicate a lesson plan in a grammar book. The accompanying text appears to be a lesson plan regarding verbs and their "properties." The image depicts three figures, each of which represents a different "voice" of verbs.

Verbs

A page of a grammar lesson about adverbs

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While the other illustration from Cobbin's Elements of English Grammar (the first image of the gallery) uses visual figures to personify discussed terms, this image provides a picture of the action described by the accompanying text: that is, the illustration acts

Verbs with Adverbs

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