RUINS - the confounding of order and design

It is central to the Romantic spirit that it is moved by the crumbling remains of once great civilisations.
 
TOP coloured engraving, source unknown The Ruins of Persepholis 13 x18 cms
 
 
BELOW LEFT engraving by F.Berardi insc. "Cio' ch'erse il fasto, or cupre arena ed erba" ruins in the Roman Campagna 19 x 26 cms c1720
 
BELOW RIGHT anonymous engraving for The Complete English Traveller "Prospect of the Ruins of Glastonbury Abbey in Somersetshire." 18.5 x 30cms c1720

 
 

 

a plate from Johann Huttich's book on the antiquities around Mainz 1728, and about as ruined as could be.

Bartoli, Admiranda Romanarum Antiquitatum, Rome 1693, a survey of Roman bas reliefs

Rosinus, Antiquitatum Romanarum, 1609

Robert Adam, Ruins of the Place of Diocletian, 1764

Robert Fairburn, Circus of Alexander Severius , c1799

Ruins of Morea from Moore's Voyages and Travels, handcoloured print

Ruins of Zeebrugge, c1918

Piranesi's Fragments

Nardini, Roma Antica... 1688

The Japanese earthquake of 1891

Ruins of Albert on the Somme, c1918

A Norfolk Album, Ruins

TITLE PAGE TO Collection of...RUINS in ROME, James Merigot, London c1819

Fischer von Erlach, History of Architecture, 1725, the Great Cistern

James Merigot, Select Collections of Views and Ruins... of Rome, c1819 titlepage

F.M.Griggs, Fen Monastery, etching c1928

F.M.Griggs, Castor (Caister?) , etching 1927

F.Calvert, Ruins Illustrative of Ancient Splendour,1821-5

F.W.Billings, The Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquites of Scotland, 1855

Piranesi, Roman Landscape, engraving, date unknown

Luigi Rossini, Le Antichita Romane

Luigi Mayer, Views in the Ottoman Dominion, 1810

RUINED THINGS

F.Seymour Haden, The Breaking up of the Agamemnon etching 1870

ARTISTS

GEORGE CUITT

JOHN SELL COTMAN PRINTS 1811