Germany & Britain · 1800s
The Sublime & the Romantic
Friedrich on his crag, Turner’s last warship towed to the breaker’s yard at sunset, Waterhouse’s doomed enchantress adrift toward Camelot. Romanticism’s great meditations on nature, mortality, and the vastness that dwarfs and exalts us.
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog
The Romantic soul, alone before the infinite.
The Fighting Temeraire
The end of the age of sail, at sunset.
The Lady of Shalott
Tennyson’s doomed enchantress, adrift toward Camelot.
The Sea of Ice
A shipwreck crushed under slabs of polar ice.
Two Men Contemplating the Moon
Friendship, an uprooted oak, and the rising moon.
The Ninth Wave
Survivors on a mast, and the sea lit like stained glass.
Rain, Steam and Speed
A locomotive coming at you out of the weather.
Twilight in the Wilderness
An American sunset with not one human figure in it.
Among the Sierra Nevada, California
The American West as a promised land, lit like scripture.
The Heart of the Andes
A whole continent’s wonder, in a single canvas.
The Oxbow
Wilderness on one side, the tamed valley on the other.
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Chalk Cliffs on Rügen
Three figures at the edge of a dazzling white drop.
The Great Day of His Wrath
The end of the world, painted as a landslide of fire.
Morning in a Pine Forest
Bear cubs at play in the mist of a Russian dawn.
Golden Autumn
A birch-lined river, and the whole of a Russian October.
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Liverpool Quay by Moonlight
Gaslight, wet cobbles, and the moon on a Victorian dock.