The Wreck of the Hope David Caspar Friedrich, 1824

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The Wreck of the Hope David Caspar Friedrich,
1824
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Francisco Goya Saturn Devouring his Son 1820
1823 Oil on plaster57 1/2 inches x 32 3/4
inchesMuseo del Prado, Madrid Spain
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Blake, William (b. Nov. 28, 1757, London--d. Aug.
12, 1827, London) English poet, painter,
engraver one of the earliest and greatest
figures of Romanticism. The most famous of
Blake's lyrical poems is Auguries of Innocence,
with its memorable opening stanza To see a
World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild
Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
Ancient of Days (God as an Architect)
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Joseph Mallard William Turner The Slave Ship,
1840, 3ft x 4ft, Boston Museum of Fine Arts
1812 poem, written by TurnerAloft all hands,
strike the top-masts and belay you angry
setting sun and fierce-edged clouds Declare the
Typhoon's coming. Before it sweeps your decks,
throw overboard The dead and dying ne'er heed
their chains Hope, Hope, Fallacious Hope! Where
is thy market now?
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Theodore Gericault, The Raft of the Medusa 1819
Musée du Louvre, Paris
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The Bridge at Narni, Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
(1826-27), oil on canvas, Ottawa, Canada
National Gallery
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Eugene Delacroix Liberty Leading the People This
painting celebrated the day, during the 1830
Revolution, that the people rose and fought for
their liberty. Delacroix used the painting as a
political poster for the revolution. Delacroix
was a member of the National Gaurd, and he placed
himself into the picture as the man on the left
wearing a top-hat (close-up shown below).
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Frederick Church,"Niagara Falls" (1857). Nearly 8
ft. wide.
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George Inness, Delaware Water Gap
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Benjamin West The Death of General Wolfe 1770
Oil on canvas, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

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John Singleton Copley, Watson and the Shark,
1778 http//www.nga.gov/feature/watson/story1.shtm
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Charles Wilson Peale, Self Portrait of the
Artist in His Museum, 1822
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Rembrandt PealeRubens Peale with a
Geranium, 1801
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Gilbert Stuart American, 17551828) George
Washington (the Athenaeum portrait), 1796
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Asher B. Durand, Kindred Spirits, 1849,
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View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton,
Massachusetts, after Thunderstorm The Oxbow,
1836 Thomas Cole
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Fur Traders Descending the Missouri, 1845George
Caleb Bingham