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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