Online Gallery for Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture

A portrait of a man sitting.

Friedrich Georg Weitsch’s Portrait of Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859)

A portrait of a man sitting.

Rembrandt Peale’s Thomas Jefferson

A map

Copy after Alexander von Humboldt’s General Chart of the Kingdom of New Spain between Parallels of 16 & 38° N., from Materials in Mexico at the Commencement of year of 1804

A portrait of a man sitting.

Charles Willson Peale’s Self-Portrait with Mastodon Bone

A drawing of a room.

Charles Willson Peale and Titian Ramsay Peale’s The Long Room, Interior of Front Room in Peale’s Museum

A painting of a man holding a curtain to another room.

Charles Willson Peale’s The Artist in His Museum

A photo of a mastodon skeleton.

Skeleton of the Mastodon

a scene in a painting where they are lifting up a mastodon.

Charles Willson Peale’s Exhumation of the Mastodon

A portrait of a man.

Charles Willson Peale’s Portrait of Baron von Humboldt

A portrait of a man.

Charles Willson Peale’s Portrait of Meriwether Lewis

A portrait of a man.

Charles Willson Peale’s Portrait of William Clark

a drawing of a mountain.

Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland’s Géographie des plantes Équinoxiales: Tableau physique des Andes et Pays voisins, from Essai sur la géographie des plantes

a natural bridge

Frederic Edwin Church’s The Natural Bridge, Virginia

A painting of a waterfall

Frederic Edwin Church’s Niagara

A painting of a waterfall

Frederic Edwin Church’s Horseshoe Falls

A painting of a waterfall

Frederic Edwin Church’s The Falls of Tequendama, Near Bogotá, New Grenada

A sketch of a waterfall

Frederic Edwin Church’s Tequendama Falls near Bogotá, Colombia

A painting of a mountain

Frederic Edwin Church’s Cotopaxi

A painting of a mountain

Frederic Edwin Church’s Mount Chimborazo through Rising Mist and Clouds

A painting of a mountain

Frederic Edwin Church’s Mount Chimborazo, Ecuador

A painting of a mountain

Frederic Edwin Church’s Mount Chimborazo at Sunset

A painting of a mountain

Frederic Edwin Church’s Study for “The Heart of the Andes"

A painting of clouds

Frederic Edwin Church’s Clouds Over Olana

A painting of a valley with a lake.

Albert Bierstadt’s Valley of the Yosemite

A painting of a waterfall

Albert Bierstadt’s Cho-Looke, The Yosemite Fall

A photo of trees and a waterfall

Carleton E. Watkins and Isaiah West Taber’s Yosemite Falls

A photo of water cascading through trees.

Carleton E. Watkins’s Cascade, Nevada Falls, Yosemite, California

A photograph of a man

Unidentified photographer’s John C. Frémont with “ Fremont and Freedom” banner

A sculpture of a man

John Quincy Adams Ward’s The Freedman

A sculpture of two men

John Rogers’s The Wounded Scout, a Friend in the Swamp

A painting of a house.

Eastman Johnson’s The Old Mount Vernon

A painting with many figures talking.

Alexandre Damien Manceau’s Travellers Meeting Minatarre Indians near Fort Clark

A painting of a dance among Native Americans.

Alexandre Damien Manceau’s Bison Dance of the Mandan Indians in front of Their Medicine Lodge in Mih-Tutta-Hankush

A painting of a mountain ledge.

Charles Beyer’s View of the Stone Walls on the Upper Missouri

A painting of a man dancing.

Louis René Lucien Rollet’s Pehriska-Ruhpa, Moennitarri Warrior in the Costume of the Dog Dance

A painting of a man

Johann Hürlimann’s Mató-Tópe, a Mandan Chief

A drawing of two men fighting.

Mató-Tópe’s Battle with a Cheyenne Chief

A painting of a man

George Catlin’s Máh-to-tóh-pa, Four Bears, Second Chief, in Full Dress

A portrait of a man

George Catlin’s Shon-ta-yi-ga, Little Wolf, a Famous Warrior

A painting of an interior room with people

Karl Girardet’s Danse d'indiens Iowas devant le roi Louis-Phillipe aux Tuileries (Dance of the Iowa Indians before the King Louis-Phillipe at the Tuileries)

A room with many framed artworks on the walls.

Samuel F. B. Morse’s Gallery of the Louvre

A portrait of a man sitting.

Rembrandt Peale’s Portrait of Alexander von Humboldt

A man in a library.

After Eduard Hildebrandt’s Humboldt in His Library

A portrait of a man sitting.

Henri-Joseph Johns’s James Smithson

A bust of a man

Henry Berger’s Bust of Humboldt

A globe

Newton & Son’s Newton's New and Improved Terrestrial Globe

A room with men and a globe

Daniel Huntington’s The Atlantic Cable Projectors

A painting of the Northern lights

Frederic Edwin Church’s Aurora Borealis