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Joseph Wright of Derby

Wright of Derby (1734-1792) was one of the most important English painters of the eighteenth century. He linked elements of Romanticism with powerful images of science and technology. His depictions...

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Charles Willson Peale

Jennifer Lindbeck, Class of ’98, Dickinson College   Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827) grew up in Annapolis, Maryland, and was the first of a long line of natural historians and artists. He also became...

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William Blake

Tiger (from Oliver Goldsmith's Animate Nature) Lamb (from Buffon's Histoire Naturelle) William Blake is a particularly complex figure in terms of a romantic natural history. On the one hand, Blake was...

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