Landscape with a Storm

“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...

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...

This is an unmounted print of an aquatint engraving entitled ‘A Storm in Harvest’. The print depicts a harvest scene of men and women with sickles sheltering from a storm under a l...

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...