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| Benjamin West Apotheosis of Nelson 1807 oil on canvas Yale Center for British Art |
DIRGE ON THE DEATH OF LORD NELSON
Why o'er the dark and troubled deep
Is heard at times a mournful noise;
While Victors midst their triumphs weep,
The vanquish'd in their fall rejoice!
Why burst the sobs of yonder Tars,
But now triumphant o'er the foe;
Unmindful of their gory scars,
Their tears that now first learn to flow?
For NELSON'S death their tears are shed,
And grief alone their thoughts employs;
Ev'n Vict'ry's self reclines her head,
And weeping checks her wonted joys.
Thy deeds, great Chief, shall be the theme,
Afar on Ganges' hallow'd shores;
While Niagara's lightening stream,
Thy dreaded name in thunder roars.
Stern MARS, as 'midst the fight he raves,
Shall ev'ry dreadful peal prolong;
And NEPTUNE roll his gory waves,
To sound their fav'rite's fun'ral song.
And while on high her Warrior's tomb
Thy weeping country grateful rears;
Thy laurels o'er it e'er shall bloom,
Still water'd by a Nation's tears.
– published anonymously in The Morning Chronicle, November 8, 1805
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| Paul Sandby The Artist's Studio, Bayswater ca. 1800-1809 oil on panel Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
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| Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg View north of Kronborg Castle, Denmark ca. 1810 oil on canvas Hirschsprung Collection, Copenhagen |
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| Felice Giani Design for ceiling decoration with Aurora ca. 1810-1820- watercolor Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Jacques-Louis David The Anger of Achilles 1819 oil on canvas Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| Ernst Ferdinand Oehme Scharfenberg Castle at night 1827 oil on canvas Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
Thought chang'd the infinite to a serpent, that which pitieth
To a devouring flame, and man fled from its face and hid
In forests of night: then all the eternal forests were divided
Into earths rolling in circles of space, that like an ocean rush'd
And overwhelmed all except this finite wall of flesh.
Then was the serpent temple form'd, image of infinite
Shut up in finite revolutions, and man became an Angel,
Heaven a mighty circle turning, God a tyrant crown'd.
– William Blake, from Europe: A Prophecy
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| Alexandre Charles Guillemot Mars and Venus surprised by Vulcan 1827 oil on canvas Indianapolis Museum of Art |
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| Johann Erdmann Hummel Granite Basin in Berlin Lustgarten 1831 oil on canvas Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
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| Wilhelm von Kobell Riders at the Tegernsee 1832 oil on panel Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
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| William Hilton Cupid Armed ca. 1833 oil on panel Yale Center for British Art |
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| Giuseppe Molteni Rebecca ca. 1835 oil on canvas Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan |
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| Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot Ville d'Avray ca. 1835-40 oil on canvas Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokyo |
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| Constantin Hansen Arch of Titus, Rome 1839 oil on paper, mounted on canvas Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen |
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| Christian Albrecht Jensen Portrait of Cathrine Jensen née Lorenzen, the artist's wife ca. 1842-44 oil on canvas Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen |