1823

Showing 15 works across all media from 1823

Mythological painting · Romanticism

Saturn Devouring His Son (Goya)

Francisco de Goya

1823 · El Prado, Madrid

Goya painted this straight onto the wall of his own house in his last bitter years and never meant anyone else to see it.

★ 8.5

Political literature

The American continents... Are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.

James Monroe

1823 State of the Union · 1823

★ 7.0

Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring-not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.

Clement Clarke Moore

A Visit from St. Nicholas · 1823

★ 6.8

Portrait · Romanticism

The Madwoman

Theodore Gericault

1823 · Musee des Beaux Arts Lyon, Lyon

One of a series Géricault painted of asylum patients for a doctor studying obsession, and he gave her the seriousness of a commissioned portrait.

★ 6.5

Poem

Tis strange,—but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction.

Lord Byron

Don Juan · 1823

★ 3.9

Speech · Military speech

Think of it, soldiers; from the summit of these pyramids, forty centuries look down upon you.

Napoleon Bonaparte

1823

★ 3.8

Happy Christmas to all, and to all a goodnight!

Clement Clarke Moore

A Visit from St. Nicholas · 1823

★ 3.6

Political literature

We owe it, therefore, to candor, and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and those powers to declare that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety.

James Monroe

1823 State of the Union · 1823

★ 3.6

Poem

The English winter—ending in July, To recommence in August.

Lord Byron

Don Juan · 1823

★ 2.2

Superstition is the poetry of life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1823

★ 2.1

Personal journal

Cultivate a well-ordered mind, it's your only road to happiness; and to reach it, be orderly in everything, even in the smallest details.

Eugene Delacroix

1823

★ 1.9

Political literature

In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy so to do.

James Monroe

1823

★ 1.9

Song

Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.

John Howard Payne

Home, Sweet Home · 1823

★ 1.9

Essay

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

William Hazlitt

1823

★ 1.9

Poem

Providence has given human wisdom the choice between two fates: either hope and agitation, or hopelessness and calm.

Yevgeny Baratynsky

1823

★ 1.9