Historic Landscapes and Ruins

A collection of oil paintings and watercolors showcasing historical landscapes, castles, ruins, and natural scenery with a focus on dramatic skies and architecture.

Landscape with Bathsheba, Jan van Scorel, c. 1540 - c. 1545

'St. Mary Redcliffe, Bristol', 1923. Artist: John Sell Cotman.

Rheinfels Looking to Katz and Gourhausen, Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775-1851, British, 1817, Watercolor, gouache, gray wash and scraping out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 7 7/8 x 12 1/2 inches (20 x 31.8 cm), buildings, cityscape, cliffs, clouds, hills, landscape, river, Europe, Germany, Koblenz, Rheinfels Castle, Rheinland-Pfalz, Rhine, Sankt Goar, Sankt Goarshausen

View of Campo Vacino, Rome, 1767, Charles Joseph Natoire, French, 1700 - 1777, 12 1/4 x 18 1/2 in. (31.12 x 46.99 cm) (sheet), Graphite, pen and brown ink, ink washes, red chalk, and white heightening, France, 18th century

Paul Sandby RA, 1731-1809, British, Old Bridge at Shrewsbury, 1772. Watercolor and gouache on canvas.

The Stoning of Saint Stephen; Bartholomeus Breenbergh (Dutch, 1598 - 1657); 1632; Oil on panel; 67.5 × 92.1 cm (26 9,16 × 36 1,4 in.)

Forum Romanum, for Mr Soane's Museum. Date/Period: 1826. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 1,457 cm (15.9 yd); Width: 2,363 cm (25.8 yd). Author: J. M. W. Turner.

Print made by Frederick Christian Lewis the Elder, 1779-1856, British, New Weir on the Wye, 1825. Etching and line engraving, with hand coloring and watercolor.

'Moonlight'. Holland, 17th century. Dimensions: 26x35 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: Egbert Lievensz van der Poel.

Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775-1851, British, Luxembourg, ca. 1825 or 1834. Watercolor, gouache, pen and brown ink and scratching out on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper.

Landscape with Bathsheba, Jan van Scorel, c. 1540 - c. 1545

Lithuanian birch with the ruins of the Radziwi Castle; Smuglewicz, Franciszek (1745-1807); approx. 1800 (1800-00-00-1807-00-00), approx. 1800 (1800-00-00-1807-00-00);purchase

Gustave Moreau / The Sirens

Detail of Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon Oil on canvas; 1816 John Martin; British; 1789 - 1854

Moonlit Scene with Castle Ruins. Date/Period: Mid 19th century. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 27.9 cm (10.9 in); Width: 21.6 cm (8.5 in). Author: Carl Spitzweg.

The tomb of the March victims at the Schmelz cemetery supplement to the March of March of the Social Democrats , Unknown

VAGABUNDOS DESCANSANDO EN UNA CUEVA - 1808/12 - 32x56 CM. Author: FRANCISCO DE GOYA. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Illustration after Albrecht Durer copperplate engraving (1502) of Castel Segonzano

ATAQUE NOCTURNO A LILLE - 1650 - OLEO/LIENZO - 181 x 267 cm - NP 1739 - ESCUELA FLAMENCA. Author: PEETER SNAYERS (1592/1667). Location: MUSEO DEL PRADO-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN.

Godfrey Thomas Vigne, 1801-1863, British, Oruro, Bolivia, 1855. Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper.

Imaginary Landscape (Hungarian Landscape in Veszprem), by Lorenzo di Pietro also known as Il Vecchietta, Tommaso di Cristofano Fini known as Masolino da Panicale, 1435, 15th Century, fresco. Italy, Lombardy, Castiglione Olona, Varese, Palazzo Branda Castiglioni. Detail Veszprem landscape hills mountains peaks valleys town: village walls fortress palaces castles towers.

Sea bay; Coccorante, Leonardo (1680-1750); XVII-XVIII century (1690-00-00-1750-00-00);Ancient architecture, Arkada (arch.), Columns (architect), Italian painting, coastal landscapes, landscapes with relay, ancient ruins

'Ruins of Antique Triumphal Arch'. France, Circa 1758. Dimensions: 97x64 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: HUBERT ROBERT.

Victor Hugo (1802-1885). "River (La Nahe)". Plume and wash of brown ink, black ink, black pencil, scratch, woven paper with watermark j . T .. S.D .. Paris, house of Victor Hugo. Mist, drawing, scratching, nahe, brown ink wash, black, vellum paper with watermark, river, pen, bridge

Poskrebyshev, Leonid Ignatievich (*1934) Regional Art Museum, Magnitogorsk 1982 108x133 Oil on canvas Soviet Art Russia

David Roberts, 1796-1864, British, Edinburgh from the Castle, 1847. Oil on canvas.

Marià Pidelasserra / 'Tejados y chimeneas', Óleo sobre lienzo. Museum: PRIVATE COLLECTION.

Colossal statues of Memnon (Pharaoh Amenhotep III), seen during the flooding of the Nile, Thebes, Egypt. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849.

Revellers on a Coach, Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1740-1812, French, active in Britain (from 1771), between 1785 and 1790, Oil on canvas, Support (PTG): 16 5/8 x 24 3/8 inches (42.2 x 61.9 cm), balloon hat, carriage, celebrating, coach, dog (animal), donkey, fall, hat, man, men, party, revelers, road, roof, sky, umbrella, woman

Stage Design by Konstantin Alexeyevich Korovin, oil on canvas, 1918, 1861-1939, Russia, Moscow , State Central M. Glinka Museum of Music, 65x48

Fire by night in a Village. Dating: 1650 - 1685. Measurements: h 64.5 cm × w 58 cm; d 7.5 cm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Author: Adam Colonia.

A View of Boppart, with Figures on the River Bank, Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775-1851, British, 1817, Watercolor, gouache, black chalk and scratching out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 7 7/8 x 12 1/2 inches (20 x 31.8 cm), cathedral, cathedral, cityscape, fishermen, fortifications, coastal, genre subject, genre subject, harbor, landscape, marine art, ships, spires, wagon, Boppard, Europe, Germany, Koblenz, Rheinland-Pfalz

The sky , detail from Clichy Square, Paris, 1874, by Giovanni Boldini (1842-1931), oil on canvas, 60x98 cm.

Rembrandt The Mill WGA19230 The Mill

Nicolas and Jean-Baptiste Raguenet (active in the 18th century). "The Louvre, the Pont-Neuf and the College of the Four Nations, seen from the Royal Pont, 1755". Oil on canvas. Paris, Carnavalet museum. 25520-3 Arrondissement Ier i 1er 1, boat, boat, four nations college, Seine river, Ile Cite, Louvre, Palais Institut, Pont-Neuf, Panorama, Vu Pont Royal, Panoramic view, Oil on canvas, bridge

'Landscape with Ruins'. Series of 4 paintings: "Landscape with a Terrace and a Cascade", "Landscape with an Obelisk", "Landscape with Ruins", "Landscape with a Waterfall". France, 1802. Dimensions: 311x147 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: HUBERT ROBERT.

Transport with Napoleon's body by Theodore Gudin, oil on canvas , 1841, 1802-1880, Russia, St. Petersburg , State Hermitage, 42x65

From Cairo. From travel to Egypt; Cie Ski, Jan (1858-1913); 1903 (1903-00-00-1903-00-00);State Art collections (Warsaw - 1922-1939) - collections, message (provenance)

Ancona (Italia, Marche), Pinacoteca Civica Podesti. Andrea Lilli, Veduta di Ancona, olio su tela, 1598

The Angels of Sodom. OIl on canvas Gustave Moreau (1826-1899) French painter. The angels sent by God to the doomed city of Sodom and met by Lot. Bible Genesis

Genaro Perez de Villamil Genaro Perez de Villamil, Alcalá de Guadaira Castle, 1843, oil on canvas, National Museum of Fine Arts MNBA, Buenos Aires, Republic of Argentina Copyright: xZoonar.com/Tolox 21818462

the sack of troy, 1625-1630, Miquel Bestard, oil on canvas, Can Puig, Museu de Mallorca, Palma, Majorca, Spain.

Sir Robert Smirke the younger, 1781-1867, British, Remains of an Ancient Amphitheatre Near Corinth, 1803. Watercolor, graphite, pen and gray ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige, wove paper.

Troy; Heil, Daniël van (Ca 1604-1664); XVII century (1600-00-00-1699-00-00);Troy, Flemish painting, landscapes, fires, figural scenes, purchase (provenance)

Chteau in Normandy, circa 1835, France, by John Cotman.

Dedication of Eads Bridge, St. Louis County, July 4, 1874, William James Hinchey, American (born Ireland), 1829-1893, 1874, Oil on canvas, Made in Saint Louis, Missouri, United States, North and Central America, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States, North and Central America, Paintings, 18 1/4 x 29 3/8 in. (46.4 x 74.6 cm)

Landschap met ruïnes van een boog en grafmonument bij Voye Appienne. Vue prochaine de l'Arc & du Tombeau du No. 51 (title on object). Voyage en Italie, en Sicile et à Malte - 1778 (series title). Draughtsman: Louis Ducros. Dating: 1778. Measurements: h 187 mm × w 494 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Peak. Wankie, Władysław (1860-1925), painter

Painting depicting a crowd celebrating the Supreme Being on 20 Prairial Year II. The French Republican calendar was used for about 12 years beginning in 1793 and was intended to remove all religious and royalist references to dating.

Unknown artist, seventeenth century, The Great Fire of London, with Ludgate and Old St. Paul's, ca. 1670. Oil on canvas.

Landscape with the Ruins of the Castle of Egmond. Jacob van Ruisdael; Dutch, 1628/29-1682. Date: 1650-1655. Dimensions: 98 × 130 cm (38 7/8 × 51 3/8 in.). Oil on canvas. Origin: Holland. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA. Author: Jacob van Ruisdael.

The Gloomy Day 1565 Pieter Bruegel the Elder (ca.1525-1569/Flemish) Oil on Wood Panel Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria

Thomas Rowlandson, 1756-1827, British, Entrance to Festiniog, Wales, 1797. Watercolor with pen and gray and black ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige, wove paper.

A Selection of Twenty of the Most Picturesque Views in Paris: The Water Works at Marli, and St. Germain en Laye seen in the distance, 1803. Thomas Girtin (British, 1775-1802), J.B. Harraden (British). Softground etching and aquatint printed in brown, hand-colored with watercolor; sheet: 45.3 x 63.2 cm (17 13/16 x 24 7/8 in.); platemark: 22.7 x 54.5 cm (8 15/16 x 21 7/16 in.).

Pieter Brueghel the Younger (1564-1638). Fair with a Theatrical Presentation. First halph of the 17th century. Detail. Oil on panel. The State Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg. Russia.

Fire at the Opera House of the Palais-Royal in 1781 by Robert, Hubert (1733-1808) / Louvre, Paris / 1781 / France / Oil on canvas / Architecture, Interior,Genre,History / 171x126 / Rococo

View of Olinda, Brazil.The background shows Olinda Cathedral, badly damaged when the Dutch captured the region from the Portuguese in the 1630s. In the foreground is an incongruous parade of local fauna, partly hidden in the bushes. The contemporary frame is possibly after a design by Post. It shows a lizzard with a split tail, like the drawing by Post displayed nearby.

Patinir, Joachim (1480-1524). Landscape with St. 1519s. Flemish art. Oil on canvas. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. Prado Museum.

The Citadel at Cairo Seen from the Mokattam (La citadelle du Caire. Prise du Mokatam.) James Tissot (French, 1836-1902). The Citadel at Cairo Seen from the Mokattam (La citadelle du Caire. Prise du Mokatam.), 1886-1894. Oil on composition board, 14 7/16 x 20 5/16 in. (36.7 x 51.1 cm). European Art 1886-1894

EUGENIO LUCAS VELAZQUEZ. PINTOR ESPAÑOL. MADRID 1824-1870. " TOROS BAJANDO AL RIO EN LA MUÑOZA " OLEO. MUSEO ACADEMIA DE BELLAS ARTES DE SAN FERNANDO. MADRID.

Architectural fantasy with a heir to the world; Marieschi, Michele (1696-1743); 1. PO. 18th century (1700-00-00-1749-00-00);Classical architecture, Arkada (arch.), Deputy, columns (architect), Venetian painting, Italian painting

The garden wall, 1909, by Charles Holmes. Gift of the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, 1937.

'Grotto at Baia'. France, 1760s. Dimensions: 42,3x59,2 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: CHARLES-LOUIS CLERISSEAU.

PAISAJE MARITIMO - SIGLO XVIII. Author: BONARIA C. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION.

Fishing Boat Passing Figures on a beach by the Baltic; Fischerboot zwischen Findlingen am Ostseestrand. Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840). Oil on canvas. 22 x 31.2cm.

Krivonogov, Pyotr Alexandrovich (1911-1967) Central Artist's House, Moscow 1966 Oil on canvas Soviet Art Russia History

Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775-1851, British, A View of Boppart, with Figures on the River Bank, 1817. Watercolor, gouache, black chalk and scratching out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper.

Decoration of the Camera degli Sposi (Camera Picta), by Mantegna Andrea, 1465 - 1474, 15th Century, fresco and dry tempera. Italy. Lombardy. Mantua. Ducal Palace. West wall. The meeting between Ludovico Gonzaga and his sons Francesco and Federico. Right episode. Detail of landscape in the background with a stone quarry green brown earth

Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon Oil on canvas; 1816 John Martin; British; 1789 - 1854

Jelgerhuis, Johannes, Netherlands, Marcus, Jacob Ernst, Ruins on the Rapenburg in Leiden after the disaster, 1807, verso - stamped, View from the Nieuwsteegbrug of the devastated area after the gunpowder disaster on the Rapenburg (Steenschuur) in Leiden on 12 January 1807. Clean-up work after the disaster, in the centre the Saaihal, on the left in the distance the Pieterskerk. In the foreground the body of a victim is carried away. In the margin a vignette with the city maiden of Leiden comforted by Hope., print, prent, prints, Frederik Muller Historieplaten, height 460 mm, width 600 mm, Noord-Nederlands, 1774-03-19 - 1826-10-02, print maker, printmaker, 1807 - 1807, paper, papier, etching, etchings, engraving, engraving (printing process), 1770-09-24 - 1836-10-06, intermediary draughtsman

John James Chalon, 1778-1854, French, active in Britain, Wood Cutters, undated. Brown and gray wash, gouache, graphite on slightly textured, moderately thick, cream wove paper.

LA ODISEA - ULISES ATACADO POR LOS LESTRIGONES - FRESCO DE FINALES DEL SIGLO I. Author: HOMERO (S I). Location: BIBLIOTECA APOSTOLICA-COLECCION. VATICANO.

Pompeii fresco. Roman period. Temple in a landscape.

The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16th October, 1834. Date/Period: 1834 or 1835. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 36.2 in (92 cm); Width: 48.5 in (123.1 cm). Author: J. M. W. Turner.

Hubert Robert, The Ponte Salario, c 1775 Hubert Robert (French, 1733 - 1808), The Ponte Salario, c. 1775, oil on canvas, Samuel H. Kress Collection 1952.5.50

Ruin with Three Arches, William Sawrey Gilpin, 1762-1843, British, undated, Watercolor, graphite, pen and gray ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige, wove paper, Sheet: 10 1/8 × 14 1/8 inches (25.7 × 35.9 cm)

'Heidelberg', c1844-1845. Artist: JMW Turner

Lt. Joseph Sparkhall Rundle, 1815-1880, Peiho River Foraging Party, 1840. Watercolor and scratching out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on thick, smooth, cream wove paper.

Detail from a Ambrogio Lorenzetti's allegorical Fresco, that decorates the Palazzo Pubblico at Siena. This particular fresco depicts a street scene in Siena with merchants, peasants and animals. Dated 14th Century

Michele Bellanti (1807-1883). Artista maltés. Vista de una mezquita. Acuarela y gouache sobre papel gris. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. La Valeta. Malta.

Sodomy, flight with daughters; Bles, Herri Met de (Ca 1510-Post 1566); 16th century (1500-00-00-1550-00-00);Lot (Bible), Sodom (Bible), Old Testament (Bible), Dutch painting, mountain landscapes, fire, biblical scenes, purchase (provenance)

Friedrich Nerly (1807-1878). German painter. Piazzetta in Venice by Moonlight, 1842. Wallraf-Richartz Museum. Cologne. Germany.

Night -time; Neer, Aert Van Der (1603-1677); XVII century (1600-00-00-1699-00-00);Dutch painting, nocturnes, aquatic landscapes, ports, fishing ports, purchase (provenance)

William Hodges (28 October 1744 - 6 March 1797) was an English painter. He was a member of James Cook's second voyage to the Pacific Ocean, and is best known for the sketches and paintings of locations he visited on that voyage, including Table Bay, Tahiti, Easter Island, and the Antarctic. Hodges accompanied Cook to the Pacific as the expedition's artist in 1772-1775. Many of his sketches and wash paintings were adapted as engravings in the original published edition of Cook's journals from the voyage.

Joachim Patinir / 'Landscape with Saint Jerome', 1516-1517, Flemish School, Oil on panel, 74 cm x 91 cm, P01614. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN.

J. Brueghel t. E. / The burning Troy

The Mokattam from the Citadel of Cairo (Le Mokatam au-dessus dela Citadelle du Caire) James Tissot (French, 1836-1902). The Mokattam from the Citadel of Cairo (Le Mokatam au-dessus dela Citadelle du Caire), 1886-1894. Oil on board, 14 1/2 x 20 7/16 in. (36.8 x 51.8 cm). European Art 1886-1894

View of Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, Israel, based on a painting by Hubert Sattler (1817-1904), reproduction from a 19th-century model. Authentic, file restored for optimal use, exact date of original unknown

Landscape with the ruin of the Temple of the Tiburtine Sibille, Gabriel Perelle, After Jan Asselijn, 1693 - 1717 print Title in French in STUDMARGE. Print is part of an album. print maker: Francepublisher: ParisThe HagueFrance paper etching landscape with ruins. ruin of a building ~ architecture. temple, shrine ~ Roman religion Italy

England, London, City of London, Guildhall, Guildhall Art Museum, Painting of The Demolition of Old London Bridge as Seen From The Southwark Side dated 1832

Marine with ruins and ships, by Salvator Rosa (1615-1673), oil on canvas, 51x63 cm.

Marina; Romanowicz, Walenty (1911-1945); 1939 (1939-00-00-1939-00-00);

Central Java, Bik, Adrianus Johannes, Springer, Cornelis, View of the ruins of Candi Sewu by Yogyakarta, recto lower right, View of the ruins of Candi Sewu (Prambanan) by Yogyakarta, the smoking Merapi in the background, Central Java. Design for a book illustration., drawing, topographical drawing, design, watercolor, drawings, CS, Tjandi-Sewoe, height 382 mm, width 513 mm, Dutch, 1817-05-25 - 1891-02-20, draughtsman, draftsman, 1827 - 1891, second quarter 19th century, third quarter 19th century, fourth quarter 19th century, paper, pencil, watercolor (paint), water color, brush, 1790-01-13 - 1872-10-01, intermediary draughtsman

Conflagration of the Masonic Hall, Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Samuel Jones; American, 19th century; Possibly John Lewis Krimmel; American, born Germany, 1786-1821. Date: 1819. Dimensions: 48.4 × 60 cm (19 1/6 × 22 1/6 in.). Oil on mahogany panel. Origin: United States. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Hugo, Victor (n.1802-02-26-D.1885-05-22), old burg in the storm, 1837.Plume and brown ink, glued paper, on vellum paper. House of Victor Hugo - Hauteville House.

Theatre set with alchemist's workshop 19th century () Anonymous, German, 19th century German. Theatre set with alchemist's workshop 390056

Chimneys, Llanelly, Sir George Clausen (London, England, 1852 - 1944)

TOLEDO 1925. Author: LEZCANO CARLOS. Location: MUSEO REINA SOFIA-PINTURA, MADRID, SPAIN.

'Toledo', 1925, Oil on canvas. Author: CARLOS LEZCANO (1871-1929). Location: MUSEO NACIONAL DE ARTE REINA SOFIA-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN.

'Firework Display at the Castel Sant' Angelo in Rome (La Girandola)'. Great Britain, 1779. Dimensions: 162,5x213 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: JOSEPH WRIGHT OF DERBY.

Chapel in a park. Rouba, Michał (1893-1941), painter

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