Box with hoopoe on the lid
Contributor: Alexander Knopf Location: Freies Deutsches Hochstift / Frankfurter Goethe-Museum, Frankfurt/Main, Germany Description: On the 22 December 1820, Goethe sent a small box to Jakob and...
View ArticleAnne Lister’s Diary, 30th March 1834
Contributor: Helene Grøn Location: Calderdale, West Yorkshire Archive Service Description: Anne Lister’s diaries were written between 1806 and her death in 1840, containing four million words mostly...
View ArticleMary Wollstonecraft
Contributor: Martin Fog Arndal Location: National Portrait Gallery, London Description: In 1797, renowned philosopher and author, Mary Wollstonecraft sat for her last portrait made by John Opie,...
View ArticleOlympe de Gouges: Rights, marriage and ‘the tomb of trust and love’
Contributor: Helene Grøn Location: Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris Description: Amid commotion, two hands meet in the handing over of a pamphlet. One belongs to playwright and social reformer...
View ArticleClasped Hands of Elizabeth and Robert Browning
Contributor: Lene Østermark-Johansen Location: National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington. Gift of Molly F. Sheppard Description: An encounter in Rome in 1853 between the Brownings and the...
View ArticleThe David Garrick Monument, Westminster Abbey
Contributor: Terry F. Robinson Location: Westminster Abbey, London, UK Description: In 1797, a marble monument to David Garrick was erected in Westminster Abbey on the west wall of Poets’ Corner....
View ArticlePortrait of Bettine Brentano with Achim von Arnim’s “Wintergarten”
Contributor: Alexander Knopf Location: Freies Deutsches Hochstift / Frankfurter Goethe-Museum, Frankfurt/Main, Germany Description: In October 1809, Bettine Brentano sent a long letter to Johann...
View ArticleTemple de la Sibylle, Buttes Chaumont park, Paris (1866)
Contributor: Joanna Beaufoy Location: Paris, France Description: ‘Temple d’amour’, a ‘Rousseau-ist rêverie’, ‘an ode to landscape art’… the small temple perched atop an artificial cliff in the Parc des...
View ArticleSamuel Crosthwaite, View of Cockermouth (1860)
Contributor: Philip Shaw Location: Cockermouth Description: Samuel Crosthwaite’s picturesque view of Cockermouth in Cumbria works hard to underplay the transformative effects of the transition from...
View ArticleDenon’s Reliquary
Contributor: Sophie Thomas Location: Musée Bertrand, Châteauroux, France Description: Dominique-Vivant Denon’s reliquary is both a personal collection and a portable, pan-European museum. It is a late...
View ArticleBartram’s Garden
Contributor: Cian Duffy Location: Philadelphia, USA Description: Located on the banks of the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia, John Bartram’s garden is the oldest botanical garden in America. It was...
View ArticleThe Harvard Shelley Notebook
Contributor: Tim Sommer Location: Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Description: This manuscript notebook contains fair copies of several poems Shelley wrote during...
View ArticleTemple, Pool and Cave, Sezincote Park, 1819.
Contributor: Nicola J. Watson Location: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, USA Description: This oil painting executed in 1819 by Thomas Daniell (1749-1840) shows part of an...
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