Image Bank: English 3702

William Blake
John Constable
Exotic Subjects & Extreme States
Caspar David Friedrich
Thomas Gainsborough
Gothic Style and Walpole
"History Painting"
Jacob Huysmans (Rochester)
Piranesi (De Quincey)
 

William Blake -- The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

• Frontispiece to The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
• "Proverbs of Hell," page 1
• "Proverbs of Hell," page 2
• "Proverbs of Hell," page 3
• "Proverbs of Hell," page 4

John Constable -- Landscapes

• "Dedham Vale" (1802)
• "The Stour Valley and Dedham Village" (c. 1814)
• "The White Horse" (1819)
• "The Leaping Horse" (1825)
• "The Hay-Wain" (1821)
• "The Valley Farm" (1835)

Exotic Subjects and Extreme States

• Eugene Delacroix
• "Bride of Abydos" (1857)
• "Women of Algiers in Their Apartment" (1834)
• "Lion with a Rabbit" (n.d.)

• Theodore Gericault
• "Raft of the Medusa" (1819)
• Madwoman - "The Woman with Gambling Mania" (1822)
• Another Madwoman

Caspar David Friedrich

• How does Friedrich situate his viewer (you -- as well as the person(s) sometimes pictured by him)?  Compare the position of the viewer in his landscapes to those by Constable and Gainsborough.

• At the same time, I encourage you to think of some of the Romantic verse treatments of the landscape that we have read.  How might Friedrich's viewer be similar to and different from viewers in Wordsworth, for instance?  Why have us gaze upon another person gazing?

• Would you describe these landscapes as "sublime"? If so, what features make them so?  If not, why not?

• "Wanderer above the Sea of Fog" (c. 1818)
• "The Sea of Ice" (1823-25)
• "The Chalk Cliffs on Rügen" (1818-19)
• "The Riesengbirge" (1835)
• "Women on the Beach of Rügen" (1818)

 
• Some other suggestive paintings by David:
• "Moon Rising over the Sea" (1821)
• "On Board a Sailing Ship" (n.d.)
• "Abbey in an Oak Forest" (1809-10)
• "Landscape with Oak Trees and a Hunter" (1811)

Thomas Gainsborough

• Take a look at the two different genres of painting Gainsborough produced.  Compare, also, his "fancy paintings" to the later landscapes of Constable.

• Society Portraits
• "Portrait of a Lady in Blue" (late 1770s)
• "Lady Alston" (1760-65)
• "Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan" (1785-1787)
• "Mr and Mrs Robert Andrews" (c.1748-50)

• "Fancy Paintings" (more rustic works)
• "The Harvest Waggon" (1767)
• "Wooded Landscape with Mounted Drover" (1780)
• "The Market Cart" (1786)
• "Peasants Smoking at a Cottage Door" (1788)
• "The Girl with a Pitcher" (1785)
• "The Girl with Pigs" (1782)

Gothic Style and Walpole

• Strawberry Hill (Walpole's 'Gothic' mansion)
• A sketch of the south front of Strawberry Hill
• A sketched plan of the chapel of Strawberry Hill
• A very recent renovation of Strawberry Hill (photo of exterior): STILL a tourist attraction to this day
• An 18th-century illustration of The Castle of Otranto: Note the treatment of space here; the emphasis on an ancient and imposing structure.

• Some examples of Gothic architecture
• Chartres cathedral (exterior)
• A view of the interior of Chartres
• Cologne cathedral(exterior)
• Westminster cathedral (exterior)

• To provide you with a sense of the CONTRASTS in period style that accompanied the rise of the Gothic novel and the Gothic architectural revival, consider the following works:
• A famous painting by Jean Honoré Fragonard- "The Swing" (1766)
• Portrait of Marie Antoinette by Elizabeth Vigée LeBrun (1783)
• "The Death of Marat" by Jacques-Louis David (1793)
• "Liberty Leading the People" by Eugene Delacroix (1830)

"History Painting" ('Heroic' topics)

• Jacques-Louis David
• "The Oath of the Horatii" (1784)
• "The Death of Socrates" (1787)
• "The Death of Marat" (1793)
• "Napoleon Crossing the Saint Bernard" (1800-01)

• Eugene Delacroix
• "Liberty Leading the People" (1830)
• "The Death of Sardanapalus" (1827)
• "The Massacre at Chios" (1824)

• Portrait of the Earl of Rochester (1665-70)

Giovanni-Battista Piranesi (De Quincey)
De Quincey compares his opium dreams to these drawings by Italian artist Piranesi.

• Prisons of the Imagination -- 1760
• (Carceri d'Invenzione)

• Prison 1
• Prison 2
• Prison 3
• Prison 4
• Prison 5
• Prison 6
• Prison 7
• Prison 8
• Prison 9
• Prison 10

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