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Image Gallery

Recommended image resources: Digital Public Library of America, Artstor (UCI access only), Empire Online (UCI access only), The Getty Research Institute, The Internet Archive

Timelapse map of ceded American Indian lands
Maps
image of the timeline
Timeline

The Aesthetics of Ruins

The rotunda of the Bank of England in the year of its completion, but depicted as a Roman ruin
Architectural Ruins – A Vision,
by Joseph Gandy.
Visit: © Sir John Soane’s Museum, London
Image of an imposing building in ruins
Bird’s-eye View of the Bank of England [‘The Bank in Ruins’],
by Joseph Gandy.
Visit: ©Sir John Soane’s Museum, London
Turner's painting Lake Avernus: Aeneas and the Cumaean Sibyl
Lake Avernus: Aeneas and the Cumaean Sibyl, by J. M. W. Turner, 1814-15.
Visit: Yale Center for British Art
Thomas Cole's painting The Course of Empire: The Savage State
The Course of Empire: The Savage State, by Thomas Cole.
Visit: Collection of the New-York Historical Society.
Thomas Cole's painting The Course of Empire: Pastoral State
The Course of Empire: The Arcadian or Pastoral State, by Thomas Cole.
Visit: Collection of the New-York Historical Society.
Thomas Cole's painting The Course of Empire: Consummation
The Course of Empire: Consummation, by Thomas Cole.
Visit: Collection of the New-York Historical Society.
Cole's painting The Course of Empire: Destruction
The Course of Empire: Destruction, by Thomas Cole.
Visit: Collection of the New-York Historical Society.
Thomas Cole's painting The Course of Empire: Desolation
The Course of Empire: Desolation, by Thomas Cole.
Visit: Collection of the New-York Historical Society.
Imaginary View of the Grand Gallery of the Louvre in Ruins, by Hubert Robert, 1796.
Visit: The Louvre
Hubert Robert's painting of the ruined port of Ripetta
View of Ripetta, by Hubert Robert, 1766.
Visit: Beaux-Arts de Paris
Hubert Robert's painting of Rome burning
The Fire of Rome, by Hubert Robert, ca. 1771.
Visit: Google Arts & Culture
Hubert Robert's painting of the Salario bridge
The Ponte Salario, by Hubert Robert, c. 1775.
Visit: National Gallery of Art
Piranesi's View of the Tomb of Piso
View of the Tomb of Licinianus Piso on the ancient Appian Way… , by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1760-1778.
Visit: LACMA
Piranesi's engraving of the Colosseum
View of the Flavian Amphitheater Known as the Colosseum, by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1757.
Visit: archive.org
Piranesi's etching of the interior of a temple at Paestum
Interior View of the Temple … to Juno, from Different Views of Paestum, by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1778.
Visit: Hathi Trust
Piranesi's Egyptian Obelisk etching
Obelisco Egizio,
by Giovanni Piranesi, ca. 1748-51.
Visit: The New York Public Library
Canaletto's painting of the Arch of Constantine and the Colosseum
View of the Arch of Constantine with the Colosseum, by Giovanni Antonio Canal (Canaletto), 1742-45.
Visit: J. Paul Getty Museum
Capriccio with ruins and riverbank by Guardi
Capriccio with ruined arch and riverbank, by Francesco Guardi, 18th century.
Visit: Wikimedia Commons
Guardi's painting of a fantastic landscape with ruins and ships
Fantastic Landscape, by Francesco Guardi, ca. 1765.
Visit: The Metropolitan Museum
Bellotto's painting of the ruins of the Church of the Holy Cross, Dresden
The Ruins of the Old Kreuzkirche, Dresden, by Bernardo Bellotto, 1765.
Visit: Google Arts & Culture
Etching of the artificial ruins at Kew
A View of the South Side of the Ruins at Kew, etching by William Woollett after a drawing by Joshua Kirby, 1763.
Visit: British Museum
Frontispiece to Rousseau's First Discourse depicting Prometheus and satyr
Frontispiece for Rousseau’s Discourse on the Sciences and Arts, engraving by Charles Banquoy, ca. 1750-51.
Visit: archive.org
Frontispiece to Rousseau's Second Discourse depicting the "savage" returning to his own people
Frontispiece to Rousseau’s Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, engraving after a drawing by Charles Eisen, 1755.
Visit: archive.org
Image of bronze sculpture of Laocoon
Laocöon, bronze by Giovanni Battista Foggini, ca. 1720.
Visit: The Getty Museum
Plate from the Napoleonic survey of Egypt depicting the pyramids and sphinx in Memphis
Pyramids of Memphis, from Napoleon’s Description de l’Egypte, 1809-17, Vol. V.
Visit: Linda Hall Library
Caspar David Friedrich's painting Winter -- Night -- Old Age and Death
Winter — Night — Old Age and Death, by Caspar David Friedrich.
Visit: Wikimedia Commons
The Parthenon by Frederick Edwin Church
The Parthenon, by Frederick Edwin Church, 1871.
Visit: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Pompeii, by Robert S. Duncanson
Pompeii, by Robert S. Duncanson, 1855.
Visit: Smithsonian American Art Museum
Landscape with Buildings, by Didier Barra
Landscape with Buildings, by Didier Barra, early 17th century.
Visit: Wikipedia
Explosion of a Cathedral, by François de Nomé, early 17th century
Explosion of a Cathedral, by François de Nomé, early 17th century.
Visit: Wikipedia
Capriccio with Classical Ruins, by Canaletto
Capriccio with Classical Ruins and Buildings, by Canaletto, c. 1750s.
Visit: Wikimedia Commons
Ancient Column Near Syracuse, by Sarah Cole
Ancient Column Near Syracuse, by Sarah Cole, c. 1848.
Visit: Smithsonian Magazine
Babylon Fallen, by Gustave Dore
Babylon Fallen, by Gustave Doré, 1866.
Visit: Wikimedia Commons
The New Zealander, by Gustave Dore
The New Zealander, by Gustave Doré, 1873.
Visit: Metropolitan Museum of Art
A Ruined Altar, by Ferguson
A Ruined Altar and Figures, by Henry Ferguson, late 17th century.
Visit: National Galleries Scotland
Aeneas and his Family Fleeing, by Gibbs
Aeneas and his Family Fleeing Burning Troy, by Henry Gibbs, 1654.
Visit: Tate Museum © Tate CC-BY-NC-ND 3.0 (Unported)
The Tame Magpie by Magnasco
The Tame Magpie, by Alessandro Magnasco, c. 1707-8.
Visit: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Banditti at Rest, by Magnasco
Banditti at Rest, by Alessandro Magnasco, 1710s.
Visit: The Hermitage Museum
View of the Baths of Titus, by Piranesi
View of the Baths of Titus, by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, c. 1775.
Visit: LACMA
Spacious and Magnificent Harbor, by Piranesi
Part of a spacious and magnificent Harbor…, by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, c. 1761-late 1780s.
Visit: LACMA
Stair and Fountain by Hubert Robert
Stair and Fountain in the Park of a Roman Villa, by Hubert Robert, c. 1775.
Visit: LACMA
A Hermit Praying, by Hubert Robert
A Hermit Praying in the Ruins of a Roman Temple, by Hubert Robert, c. 1760.
Visit: Getty Museum
Landscape with Ruins, by Hubert Robert
Landscape with Ruins, by Hubert Robert, 1772.
Visit: Getty Museum
Modern Rome -- Campo Vaccino, by Turner
Modern Rome — Campo Vaccino, by J.M.W. Turner, 1839.
Visit: Getty Museum
Romantic Landscape with a Temple, by Thomas Doughty,
Romantic Landscape with a Temple, by Thomas Doughty,
Visit: © The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Ascanius Shooting the Stag
Ascanius Shooting the Stag of Sylvia, by Claude Lorrain, 1681-2.
Visit: © Ashmolean Museum

Empires in the Americas

The feminized figure of "American Progress" leads settlers, miners, and traders from East to West
American Progress, published by George Crofutt, 1873, after a painting by John Gast.
Visit: Library of Congress.
Incan kero 1
Incan kero (Figure 1 in “What Historians Do and Why We Do It,” WH), 15th-16th centuries.
Visit: Metropolitan Museum
Colonial inka-style kero
America, engraving by Theodor Galle after a drawing by Jan van der Straet, c. 1580
America, engraving by Theodor Galle after a drawing by Jan van der Straet, c. 1580.
Visit: National Gallery of Art
Engraving in Tordesillas' Historia general, c. 1611
Engraving in Tordesillas’ Historia general, c. 1611 (Cummins fig. 1).
Visit: archive.org
Illustration of the first quya from Guaman Poma
Mama Vaco Coia [First quya], from Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, The First New Chronicle and Good Government, 1615/1616.
Visit: The Royal Library, Copenhagen
Portrait of Don Marcos Chiguan, c. 1745
Portrait of Don Marcos Chiguathopa, c. 1745, Museo Inka (Cummins fig. 2).
Visit: Vistas: Visual Culture in Spanish America
Portrait of Don Alonso Chiguan, c. 1710
Portrait of Don Alonso Chiguan Topa, c. 1710 (Cummins fig. 3).
Visit: Artstor (UCI access only)
Inca kero with feline, rainbow, and man
Kero with feline, rainbow, and man (Cf. Cummins fig. 11).
Visit: British Museum
Portrait of a Ñusta, c. 1730-1750
Portrait of a Ñusta, c. 1730-1750, Museo Inka (Cummins fig. 4).
Visit: Artstor (UCI access only)
Image of the Virgin of the Mountain, Potosi
Virgin of the Mountain, early 18th century.
Visit: Casa Nacional de Moneda, Potosí, Bolivia
Title of arms granted to Gonzalo Uchu Hualpa and Felipe Tupac Inca
Title of arms granted to Gonzalo Uchu Hualpa and Felipe Tupac Inca Yupanqui, undated copy.
Visit: Portal de Archivos Españoles
Painting of the Procession of Corpus Christi, San Sebastián, c. 1675
Procession of Corpus Christi, San Sebastián, c. 1675 (Cummins fig. 5).

Tempests

Joshua Reynolds' painting of Miranda
Mrs Tollemache as Miranda by Joshua Reynolds, 1773/74, Kenwood Collection.
Visit: Art UK
Hogarth's painting of a scene from the Tempest
Ferdinand Courting Miranda [Scene from The Tempest] by William Hogarth, c. 1735, Nostell Priory.
Visit: The National Trust

Listen: “Full Fathom Five” composed by Robert Johnson.
Illustration of a map of the world in a fool's cap
“O Caput Elleboro Dignum,” map of the world in a fool’s cap, c. 1590.
Visit: National Library of France
Caliban by Gustav Doré
Caliban, based on an illustration of Act II Scene 2 by Gustave Doré, late 1800s.
Visit: Google Books
C. W. Sharp's engraving of Caliban, Miranda, and Prospero
Caliban. Miranda. Prospero. Engraving by C. W. Sharp based on a design by M. Retzsch, 1875.
Full version of a lithograph of Fuseli's Enchanted Island--Before the Cell of Prospero
“The Enchanted Island Before the Cell of Prospero”(Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 1, Scene 2), engraved by Peter Simon after Henry Fuseli, 1797.
Visit: The Metropolitan Museum
Waterhouse's painting of Miranda--The Tempest
Miranda–The Tempest by John William Waterhouse, 1916, in private collection.
Visit: Wikimedia Commons
David Scott's painting of Ariel and Caliban
Ariel and Caliban by David Scott, 1837.
Visit: Scottish National Gallery
Charles Buchel's image of Caliban, 1904
Herbert Beerbohm Tree as Caliban, by Charles Buchel, 1904.
Visit: The British Library
Kenny Meadow's illustration of Caliban
Caliban, illustration by Kenny Meadows from The Works of Shakspere, edited by Barry Cornwall, Vol. 1, 1846.
Visit: Hathi Trust
Engraving of Caliban 1775
Caliban, engraved and published by John Hamilton Mortimer, 1775.
Visit: The Metropolitan Museum
Prospero and Miranda by William Maw Egley
Prospero and Miranda, by William Maw Egley, c. 1850.
Visit:

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