Tag Archives: 1820’s

1846: The Temple of Time

Posted on August 19, 2022 by corvusfugit

Emma Willard was a pioneer in Women’s education, opening the Troy Female Seminary in Troy, New York in 1821—the first institution of higher education for women in the United States. The school was later renamed The Emma Willard School in … Continue reading →

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1639: Thoughts

Posted on May 23, 2020 by corvusfugit

From a letter written by James Howell, 17 March 1639: Having got into a close field, I cast my face upward, and…began to contemplate as I was in this posture the vast magnitude of the universe and what proportion this … Continue reading →

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1828: Sala Dante

Posted on May 5, 2019 by corvusfugit

Joseph Anton Koch’s frescos of Dante’s Inferno (1825-28) decorate the Sala Dante in the Casino Massimo, a Roman Villa. Several scenes from the poem are illustrated here, including Dante and Virgil’s ride on the monster Geryon (upper right) and Count … Continue reading →

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1824: Evening

Posted on September 9, 2018 by corvusfugit

Caspar David Friedrich: Evening with Clouds (1824)

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1821: In Life the Firmest Friend

Posted on June 12, 2018 by corvusfugit

From a letter written by Percy Bysshe Shelley to Thomas Love Peacock, August 1821: Lord Byron gets up at two. I get up, quite contrary to my usual custom…at twelve. After breakfast, we sit talking till six. From six till … Continue reading →

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1821: After Rain

Posted on April 27, 2018 by corvusfugit

John Constable: Evening Landscape after Rain (c. 1821)

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1822: Clouds

Posted on December 18, 2017 by corvusfugit

John Constable: Cloud Study (1822) Twenty of Constable’s studies of skies made during this season are in my possession, and there is but one among them in which a vestige of landscape is introduced. They are painted in oil, on … Continue reading →

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1905: Geographische Liebes-Räthsel

Posted on November 8, 2017 by corvusfugit

Geographische Liebes-Räthsel (1905); this map by an unknown artist uses the words from a Heinrich Heine poem as its locations: Wenn ich in deine Augen seh, So schwindet all mein Leid und Weh; Doch wenn ich küsse deinen Mund, So … Continue reading →

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1820: Thirlmere

Posted on October 18, 2017 by corvusfugit

John Glover: Thirlmere (c. 1820)

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1822: Murmurs of the Air

Posted on October 1, 2017 by corvusfugit

Despite the fact that Percy Bysshe Shelley had been expelled from Oxford University in 1811 for publishing an anonymous pamphlet called The Necessity of Atheism, this elaborate memorial was erected to the poet there in 1893. Shelly had drowned off … Continue reading →

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