1. The Wreck of the Hope David Caspar Friedrich, 1824

2. Francisco Goya Saturn Devouring his Son 1820 – 1823 Oil on plaster 57 1/2 inches x 32 3/4 inches Museo del Prado, Madrid Spain

3. Blake, William (b. Nov. 28, 1757, London--d. Aug. 12, 1827, London) English poet, painter, engraver; one of the earliest and greatest figures of Romanticism. The most famous of Blake's lyrical poems is Auguries of Innocence, with its memorable opening stanza: Romanticism To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour. Ancient of Days (God as an Architect)

4. Joseph Mallard William Turner The Slave Ship, 1840, 3ft x 4ft, Boston Museum of Fine Arts 1812 poem, written by Turner: Aloft all hands, strike the top-masts and belay; you angry setting sun and fierce-edged clouds Declare the Typhoon's coming. Before it sweeps your decks, throw overboard The dead and dying ne'er heed their chains Hope, Hope, Fallacious Hope! Where is thy market now?

5. Theodore Gericault, Theodore Gericault, The Raft of the Medusa 1819 Musée du Louvre, Paris

6. The Bridge at Narni, Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (1826-27), oil on canvas, Ottawa, Canada National Gallery

7. Eugene Delacroix Liberty Leading the People This painting celebrated the day, during the 1830 Revolution, that the people rose and fought for their liberty. Delacroix used the painting as a political poster for the revolution. Delacroix was a member of the National Gaurd, and he placed himself into the picture as the man on the left wearing a top-hat (close-up shown below).

8. Frederick Church,"Niagara Falls" (1857). Nearly 8 ft. wide.

9. George Inness, Delaware Water Gap

10. Benjamin West The Death of General Wolfe 1770; Oil on canvas, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

11. John Singleton Copley, Watson and the Shark, 1778 http://www.nga.gov/feature/watson/story1.shtm

12. Charles Wilson Peale, Self Portrait of the Artist in His Museum, 1822

13. Rembrandt Peale Rubens Peale with a Geranium, 1801

14. Gilbert Stuart American, 1755–1828) George Washington (the Athenaeum portrait), 1796

15. Asher B. Durand, Kindred SpiritsKindred Spirits, 1849,

16. View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after Thunderstorm— The Oxbow, 1836 Thomas Cole

17. Fur Traders Descending the Missouri, 1845 George Caleb Bingham