1828

Showing 10 works across all media from 1828

Landscape · Romanticism

Chichester Canal

JMW Turner

1828 · Tate Modern, London

Masts stand black against a sky going from gold to soft blue, and almost nothing else in the picture is solid.

★ 6.1

Essay

Facts are the mere dross of history. It is from the abstract truth which interpenetrates them, and lies latent among them, like gold in the ore, that the mass derives its whole value: and the precious particles are generally combined with the baser in such a manner that the separation is a task of the utmost difficulty.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

1828

★ 6.0

Religious painting · Romanticism

Expulsion from the Garden of Eden (Cole)

Thomas Cole

1828 · Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), Boston

Eden on one side of the rock arch, blasted wilderness on the other, and Cole lets the landscape carry the entire moral argument.

★ 5.4

Allegorical painting · Romanticism

I Am Still Learning

Francisco de Goya

1828 · El Prado, Madrid

An old man on two sticks, with Aun aprendo written underneath. Goya drew it in exile and failing health, near the end.

★ 5.2

Poem

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1828

★ 3.7

Essay

Experience is the best of schoolmasters, only the school fees are heavy.

Thomas Carlyle

1828

★ 3.7

Essay · Magazine

The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

1828

★ 3.6

The happiness of life, on the contrary, is made up of minute fractions-the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Improvisatore · 1828

★ 3.5

Poem

Loveliest of lovely things are they, On earth, that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyond the sculptured flower.

William Cullen Bryant

A Scene on the Banks of the Hudson · 1828

★ 3.5

Essay · Magazine

The English Bible,— a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

1828

★ 1.9