Bedcover
England, Late 17th Century
Cotton Embroidered with Silk
This piece was sold by the G.C.E. known as English East India Company. On the back the cotton is marked with those initials proving that GCE were the traders. The Portuguese were the first to import Indian embroideries . The taste of the fabric was influenced domestic design, and the English maker included exotic pineapple like flowers and golden yellow thread on white. Those colors were the typical Indian palette colors.
Wanderer of The Storm, 1835
Carl Julius von Leypold
Oil on canvas
This painting reflects one of the major themes of the Romanticism period, loneliness. The painter of this oil painted canvas was Carl Julius von Leypold. In this picture we saw a person walking in a a darkened, cloudy and cold setting. We cab assume the weather is cold do to the fact that the person is wearing a coat and that the leaves have fallen off the tree above indicating it is winter, or soon to be winter. The person seems like he is on a path to no where, because the painter does not show us where the road leads to, another indicator of loneliness in this piece. This picture is a great example of a romanticism painting reflecting the theme of loneliness.
Sam Shamah