Landscape with a Ruin

“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...

"with trees in foreground, lake and ruins in middle-distance, distant mountains" Landscape with a clearing by a lake and a mountainous background. The lake is to the left of the pa...

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...