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Explorable Archive of Art from the Romantic Era

Section Editors: Theresa M. Kelley
, Jacob Leveton
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Explore Past Exhibits

View of Abergavenny Castle

Brandon Cook

October 2023

Medieval Ruins and Nationhood in Romantic-era Travel and Popular Culture

Automated Shaving Machine with Multiple Users

Lisa Hollenbach

July 2023

Merlin's Cave: Romantic Automata

A nobleman listening to music
August 2023

During the Romantic period, India was one of Britain’s most prized colonies.

Rethinking Company Paintings

ruins

Matthew Francis Rarey

June 2023

This gallery explores the work of artists and explorers in Mexico and Central America between 1804 and 1844. Romantic explorers visually constructed Mexican history, archaeology, and geography in relation to Romantic conceptions of the picturesque landscape.

Romantic Visualities and the Construction of Mexico, 1804-1844

Three ships and Boat on Ocean

Elizabeth Rose Mathie

September 2023

Seascapes and National Pride in Romantic Visual Culture

Diagrams explaining how the camera obscura works
July 2009

This image gallery explores the unstable place of the camera obscura in Romantic visual culture and offers a critical revision of Jonathan Crary’s central thesis in Techniques of the Observer (1990). In this text, Crary contends that the camera obscura is a model of rational, disembodied vision that is later subsumed by a modern, subjective mode of observation.

Seeing beyond the Dark Room: Representations of the Camera Obscura

A small rowboat passes a glacier
August 2009

The artwork of Sir George Back, Royal Navy explorer of the Canadian Arctic, invites our reexamination of the paradigms of Romantic visual culture via its depiction of the “otherness” that the Arctic represented to the British during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as the difficulty of physically navigating that landscape.

The Aesthetics of Difficulty: George Back's Pragmatic Arctic Landscapes

Doctor Syntax tumbling into the water
June 2009

In the eighteenth century, ruins all over the world were being rediscovered and reinterpreted aesthetically as their popularity and their importance as artistic subjects increased. An increase in travel and travel literature exposed British society to ruins both local and foreign, spurring interest in capturing their picturesque nature.

The Romance of Ruins

Stonehenge through Clouds at Midnight

Madeline Crane

September 2023

The World Beyond: Romantic Art and the Supernatural

A gypsy encampment

Lucy Kimiko Hawkinson Traverse

July 2009

Epitomized by Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Watching a Sea of Fog (c. 1817-18), and the Wordsworthian peripatetic, the gentlemanly or artistic wanderer is integral to the Romantic imagination. Wandering lies at the heart of picturesque sightseeing, blank verse poetry, specimen collecting, and the Romantic cultivation of self.

Unsanctioned Wanderings

Moths
August 2009

Though the Victorian period is often considered the Golden Age of childhood, the children’s book market was an active political and moral battleground as early as the 1770s.

Visualizing Grammar for Children

Map of Vesuvius

Noah Heringman, Matt Hendrickson

September 2023

Volcanoes, Science, and Spectacle in the Romantic Period

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