Incantation by John Dixon, after John Hamilton Mortimer
British, 1773
mezzotint on laid paper
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Source: nga.gov
Temple of Mars Ultor, Rome by James Holland. British, 1840-1845. Watercolor over graphite. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
From the Met:
The restrained tonality suggests a date before 1845 with light and shadow shown playing across the ruined Temple of Mars Ultor (Mars the Avenger). The emperor Augustus erected the latter to commemorate a victory of 42 BC and Holland records three Corinthian columns that once were part of a long colonnade outside a sanctuary. A later wall at right incorporates a triumphal arch built by the emperor Tiberius in 19 AD—it was later known as the Arco dei Pantani (from the Italian word for fen because of the swampy character of the site). The Via di Tor de' Conti enters the Forum through this span, and Holland includes a glimpse of buildings beyond and used an oxcart in the foreground to establish the scale. When he made this drawing, the ground level was much higher than it is today.
Source: metmuseum.org
Imogen Pausing at the Entrance to a Cave in the Woods, a scene from Shakespeare’s Cymbeline after Richard Westall
British, c. 1830s
color mezzotint with some etching, additional hand-coloring, and varnish
British Museum
Source: britishmuseum.org
Woman Kneeling on a Rock Beside a Stormy Sea by Richard Westall
English, 18th or 19th century
watercolor on paper
British Museum
Source: britishmuseum.org
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Mask from a costume for a muse in Zéphire et Flore, designed by Oliver Messel
British, c. 1925
papier maché
National Gallery of Australia
Source: artsearch.nga.gov.au
Vaslav Nijinsky in L’Après-midi d’un Faune by Lady Una Vincenzo Troubridge
British, c. 1913
bronze on wood base
Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library
Source: isaw.nyu.edu
Photograph by E.O. Hoppé of Lubov Tchernicheva in the title role of Cléopâtre
British, c. 1918
gelatin silver print
Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library
Source: isaw.nyu.edu
Oreads by Annie Louisa Swynnerton. British, exhibited 1907. Oil on canvas. Tate Collection.
From the Tate:
This probably illustrates a scene in the ancient Greek poem Dionysiaca. Zeus, god of the sky, has flooded the earth. The oreads (mountain spirits) are forced to seek safety on higher ground. A rainbow suggests the storm is ending, although we are left to wonder if the figure glimpsed on the lower right will survive.
In 1922 Annie Swynnerton became the first woman to be elected to the Royal Academy of Arts in over 150 years. Swynnerton was also involved with the struggle for women’s rights. Some of her sitters and supporters were leading figures in the suffrage movement.
Source: tate.org.uk
False Mercury by Sir Edward Burne-Jones
British, 1882-1898
watercolor touched with gold on paper
British Museum
Source: britishmuseum.org
Three drawings of Venus, labeled “Marvel of the World (Birth of Venus),” “Venus’ looking glass,” and “Rose of Heaven,” from the album The Flower Book by Sir Edward Burne-Jones
British, 1882-1898
watercolor touched with gold on paper
British Museum
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Helen’s Tears by Sir Edward Burne-Jones
British, 1882-1898
watercolor touched with gold on paper
British Museum
Source: britishmuseum.org
The Three Graces by William Etty
oil on millboard
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Source: metmuseum.org
Allegory by William Etty
oil on canvas, laid down on wood
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Source: metmuseum.org
Achilles and the Shade of Patroclus by John Flaxman
British, 1793
pen and black ink over graphite
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Source: metmuseum.org
The Pyramids of Giza from the Southwest by Francis Firth
British, 1858
albumen silver print from a wet collodion negative
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Source: philamuseum.org
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