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Contributor: Nicola J. Watson Location: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, USA Description: This oil painting executed in 1819 by Thomas Daniell (1749-1840) shows part of an extraordinary ‘Indian’ landscape at Sezincote House in Gloucestershire, UK. Still extant, and open to the public, this expensive experiment in the Indian style was completed in … Continue reading "Temple, Pool and Cave, Sezincote Park, 1819."| European Romanticisms in Association
Contributor: Tim Sommer Location: Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Description: This manuscript notebook contains fair copies of several poems Shelley wrote during his time in Italy between late 1819 and the summer of 1820. It provides fascinating evidence of the process of creative labour and of the different stages of composition a text … Continue reading "The Harvard Shelley Notebook"| European Romanticisms in Association
Contributor: Cian Duffy Location: Philadelphia, USA Description: Located on the banks of the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia, John Bartram’s garden is the oldest botanical garden in America. It was founded in 1728 when Bartram purchased the land in what was then Kingsessing Township, an area originally inhabited by the Lenape people and settled by the … Continue reading "Bartram’s Garden"| European Romanticisms in Association
Contributor: Sophie Thomas Location: Musée Bertrand, Châteauroux, France Description: Dominique-Vivant Denon’s reliquary is both a personal collection and a portable, pan-European museum. It is a late gothic confection made of gilded copper, glass and semi-precious stone, complete with turrets and flying buttresses at each corner. Hexagonal in form, crowned with small cross atop a steeple, … Continue reading "Denon’s Reliquary"| European Romanticisms in Association
Contributor: Philip Shaw Location: Cockermouth Description: Samuel Crosthwaite’s picturesque view of Cockermouth in Cumbria works hard to underplay the transformative effects of the transition from water to steam power that took place in the first half of nineteenth century Britain. At the centre of the painting sits Derwent Mill with its distinctive chimney stack. The … Continue reading "Samuel Crosthwaite, View of Cockermouth (1860)"| European Romanticisms in Association
Contributor: Joanna Beaufoy Location: Paris, France Description: ‘Temple d’amour’, a ‘Rousseau-ist rêverie’, ‘an ode to landscape art’… the small temple perched atop an artificial cliff in the Parc des Buttes Chaumont in Paris is worth the climb, so long as you are prepared for it for be closed once you get to the top. Indeed, … Continue reading "Temple de la Sibylle, Buttes Chaumont park, Paris (1866)"| European Romanticisms in Association
Contributor: Alexander Knopf Location: Freies Deutsches Hochstift / Frankfurter Goethe-Museum, Frankfurt/Main, Germany Description: In October 1809, Bettine Brentano sent a long letter to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. With this letter, a remarkable etching was enclosed. The work, fashioned by Ludwig Emil Grimm (1790-1863), depicted Bettine herself, sitting on a chair with a voluminous book. A … Continue reading "Portrait of Bettine Brentano with Achim von Arnim’s “Wintergarten”"| European Romanticisms in Association
Contributor: Terry F. Robinson Location: Westminster Abbey, London, UK Description: In 1797, a marble monument to David Garrick was erected in Westminster Abbey on the west wall of Poets’ Corner. Charles Lamb encountered the monument in 1811 and became so rankled by it that he authored, in protest, one of the signature critical essays of … Continue reading "The David Garrick Monument, Westminster Abbey"| European Romanticisms in Association
Contributor: Lene Østermark-Johansen Location: National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington. Gift of Molly F. Sheppard Description: An encounter in Rome in 1853 between the Brownings and the American sculptor Harriet Hosmer resulted in a life-long friendship and in this plaster cast of the poets’ hands, a year after Hosmer had become apprenticed to … Continue reading "Clasped Hands of Elizabeth and Robert Browning"| European Romanticisms in Association