Twilight Landscape

“The whole landscape, which, seen by a favourable light, and in a genial temperature, had been found so lovely, appeared now like some pictured allegory of life, in which objects w...

Landscape with Stirling Castle looming high on a mountainside. The mountain and castle are in silhouette with a few yellow lights twinkling in the castle. In the foreground, a man ...

Unlike the Hudson River artists who, encouraged by the aesthetic categories of the sublime and the picturesque, centred on striking nature settings full of cataracts and large moun...

In the United States the dissemination of the writings of the German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt in the mid-nineteenth century aroused a growing interest in South America, to...

The moon illuminates a still landscape through which a river flows sedately. Trees appear as dark silhouettes against the sky. Hand-in-hand, the elves sweep like a wispy mist throu...

Landscape, two-thirds sky, with orange and red clouds reflected in a river. Signed 'Sam. W. Oscroft' in pencil at bottom left....