Utopia Collection

BURNE-JONES: ADAM & EVE. When Adam delved and Eve span. Pen-and-ink drawing by Edward Burne-Jones for William Morriss A Dream of John Ball, 1888

Walter Cranes Garland
Walter Crane shows his political allegiance in this May Day design. The ribbon that holds the garland of flowers together bears the slogans of his creed

The March of intellect, 1829. Artist: Heath, William (1795-1840)
The March of intellect, 1829. Found in the collection of British Museum

Port Sunlight - a workers utopia
Page from The Illustrated London News with photographs reporting on the model factory village of Port Sunlight on the Wirral, near Birkenhead

Salvation Army Social Campaign propaganda poster, London, c. 1910 (chromolitho)
XND75970 Salvation Army Social Campaign propaganda poster, London, c.1910 (chromolitho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: In Darkest England and the Way Out)

The Garden of Earthly Delights, 1490-1500 (oil on panel)
3107159 The Garden of Earthly Delights, 1490-1500 (oil on panel) by Bosch, Hieronymus (c.1450-1516); Prado, Madrid, Spain; (add.info.: Detail of central panel); Netherlandish, out of copyright

Robert Owen / New Harmony
New Harmony, Indiana, USA. Robert Owen established an experimental co-operative community to compliment his ideas for social reform. The project failed in 1928

D Oyly Cartes Opera Co. in Utopia, limited Gilbert & Sullivans new opera. Date c1894

American Indians. John Francis, chief of the Passamaquoddy I
Indian chief dressed in embroidered tunic and trousers from Lake Utopia, New Brunswick, Canada

Utopiae Insulae Figura (Map of the New Island of Utopia
5615728 Utopiae Insulae Figura (Map of the New Island of Utopia) from the 1516 first edition of Utopia by Sir Thomas More (1478-1535)

BIRTH OF EVE. Woodcut from the Cologne Bible, 1478

THE VIEW OF UTOPIA. Colored woodcut from Sir Thomas Mores Utopia, 1518
THE VIEW OF UTOPIA. Colored woodcut from Sir Thomas Mores " Utopia, " 1518

OWENITE COMMUNITY, 1824. Design for an Owenite community by Stedman Whitwell, the architect who accompanied Robert Owen to New Harmony, Indiana in 1824

Community / Town Planning /
Robert Owen seeks to create an ideal working community at New Lanark, near Glasgow, Scotland - schoolgirls dancing a quadrille

Woodcut from 1518 third edition of Utopia by Sir Thomas More (1478-1535
5615729 Woodcut from 1518 third edition of Utopia by Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) published in Basel showing the author conversing with the protagonist Raphael Hythloday about the ideal society he

Welcome to my dream - Music Sheet Cover, words by Johnny Burke, music by Jimmy Van Heusen. Paramount Presents Road to Utopia starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour

The Conservative Sun-Ray Treatment, Poster Published by The National Union of Conservative and Unionist Assoc., London
BAL99478 The Conservative Sun-Ray Treatment, Poster Published by The National Union of Conservative and Unionist Assoc., London, 1929 (litho); Private Collection.

Sir Thomas More, Lord Chancellor to King Henry VIII, English lawyer, author, statesman (1478-1535)
FLO4645783 Sir Thomas More, Lord Chancellor to King Henry VIII, English lawyer, author, statesman (1478-1535). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Francis Bartolozzi after Hans Holbein

Portrait of Utopists Anacharsis (Jean-Baptiste) Cloots (1755-1794), Louis Antoine de Saint-Just (Saint Just) (1767-1794)
ELD4956496 Portrait of Utopists Anacharsis (Jean-Baptiste) Cloots (1755-1794), Louis Antoine de Saint-Just (Saint Just) (1767-1794) and Gracchus Babeuf (1760-1797)

Robert Louis Stevenson, his wife, Nantoki and Natakanti at Butaritari (engraving)
8631199 Robert Louis Stevenson, his wife, Nantoki and Natakanti at Butaritari (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Robert Louis Stevenson, his wife)

Letter U: UTILITY agrees with philanthropy, but always and everywhere deceptive is UTOPIA. Engraving in "ABC
DUV4206632 Letter U: UTILITY agrees with philanthropy, but always and everywhere deceptive is UTOPIA. Engraving in "ABC. Alphabet of good advice and mistakes to avoid". Ch

Cover of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's book "Herland", 1915 (book cover)
PCT4298096 Cover of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's book "Herland", 1915 (book cover); (add.info.: feminist utopian novel); © Patrice Cartier. All rights reserved 2023.

The School of Plato, 1898 (oil on canvas)
XIR59073 The School of Plato, 1898 (oil on canvas) by Delville, Jean (1867-1953); 260x605 cm; Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France; (add.info.: Philosopher's Garden by Jean Delville).

Idyllic scene, 1779-1785. Creator: Jan Brandes
Idyllic scene, 1779-1785. Utopian village scene. Fantasy of an idyllic, primitive settlement with several families of white people in animal skins in tropical landscape

Adam and Eve in a utopian village scene, 1779-1785. Creator: Jan Brandes
Adam and Eve in a utopian village scene, 1779-1785. Fantasy of an idyllic, primitive settlement with several families of white people in animal skins in tropical landscape

Un mariage en aéroplane, au-dessus de la tour Eiffel, 1909. Creator: Devambez, André Victor Édouard (1867-1943)
Un mariage en aeroplane, au-dessus de la tour Eiffel, 1909. Found in the collection of the Musee de l'Oise, Beauvais

Le Dirigeablobus, or New imaginary Parisian means of transport, 1909. Creator: Devambez
Le Dirigeablobus, or New imaginary Parisian means of transport, 1909. Found in the collection of the Musee de l'Oise, Beauvais

From Ludvig Holbergs´s The Journey of Niels Klim to The World Underground, 1785-1787

Portrait de l'architecte Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, c.1787. Creator: Marguerite Gerard
Portrait de l'architecte Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, c.1787

Illustration for "Le Vingtième Siècle" by Albert Robida, 1883. Creator: Robida, Albert (1848-1926)
Illustration for "Le Vingtieme Siecle" by Albert Robida, 1883. Private Collection

Illustration for "Le Vingtième Siècle" by Albert Robida, 1883. Creator: Robida, Albert (1848-1926)
Illustration for "Le Vingtieme Siecle" by Albert Robida, 1883. Private Collection

Portrait of Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (1736-1806), architect, c1785. Creator: Michel Martin Drolling
Portrait of Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (1736-1806), architect, c1785

Snig's End - (from the Road), 1850. Creator: Unknown
Snig's End - (from the Road), 1850. View of the Chartist estate in Gloucestershire:..cottages built in the form of crescents;

Design for a Self-Supporting Village, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Design for a Self-Supporting Village, 1850. Church of England village, ...designed by Mr. J. Minter Morgan...intended to "promote the religious, moral

"Earth filled with Spring", propaganda poster from the Chinese Cultural Revolution, 1970 (colour litho)
RDA78557 "Earth filled with Spring", propaganda poster from the Chinese Cultural Revolution, 1970 (colour litho) by Chinese School (20th century) ; Private Collection; (add.info)

Cross-section of a house in the Napoleon housing development
CHT219394 Cross-section of a house in the Napoleon housing development, 58 rue Rochechouart, Paris, 1849 (colour litho) by French School, (19th century); Bibliotheque des Arts Decoratifs, Paris

Utopia
Al Barizi

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). En el que sabe la grandeza de nuestro manana no cabe el pesimismo (Who knows the greatness of tomorrow has no place for pessimism)

The Universal Democratic and Social Republic, 1848 (lithograph)
JLJ4680502 The Universal Democratic and Social Republic, 1848 (lithograph) by Sorrieu, Frederic (1807-c.1861); Musee de la Ville de Paris, Musee Carnavalet, Paris

School of orange Scalefin anthias (Pseudanthias squamipinnis) on a coral reef with table corals (Acropora sp)
School of orange Scalefin anthias (Pseudanthias squamipinnis) on a coral reef with table corals (Acropora sp.) and red soft corals (Dendronephthya sp.), Ras Mohammed National Park, Sinai, Egypt

Happy Island: scene of fable representing boats joining guests at a banquet on the grass
JLJ4567990 Happy Island: scene of fable representing boats joining guests at a banquet on the grass. Detail of a painting on wallpaper by Paul Albert Besnard (1849-1934). 1900

The Saint Xavier Mission, from Hacia alla y para aca (colour litho)
IND257186 The Saint Xavier Mission, from Hacia alla y para aca (colour litho) by Paucke, Florian (1719-89); Museo de America, Madrid

Illustration from Dantes Divine Comedy, Paradise, Canto II, 1921 (w / c on paper)
XOT361810 Illustration from Dantes Divine Comedy, Paradise, Canto II, 1921 (w/c on paper) by Bayros, Franz von (Choisy Le Conin) (1866-1924); Private Collection

Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) from Receuil des Estampes, representant les Rangs et les Dignites
STC196068 Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) from Receuil des Estampes, representant les Rangs et les Dignites, suivant le Costume de toutes les Nations existantes

View of the island of Utopia (Utopia) from the book of Thomas More (1478-1535)
GIA4698258 View of the island of Utopia (Utopia) from the book of Thomas More (1478-1535), " De optmo republicae statu deque nova insula Utopia". Engraved by Johann Froben. 1518

Belvedere in Saint Leu la Foret, France, c. 1820 (engraving)
1721341 Belvedere in Saint Leu la Foret, France, c. 1820 (engraving) by French School, (19th century); (add.info.: Belvedere in Saint Leu la Foret, France, c. 1820)

Portrait of Herbert George Wells, English journalist and novelist (1866-1946). In Fantasio on 01 / 09 / 1922
LSE4110653 Portrait of Herbert George Wells, English journalist and novelist (1866-1946). In Fantasio on 01/09/1922. Drawing by Barrere

The postman in 2000 s, 1910 (chromolithograph)
XEE4105860 The postman in 2000 s, 1910 (chromolithograph) by Villemard (fl.19th); Private Collection; (add.info.: from the Series of chromolithography from Villemard " En L an 2000")

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"Exploring the Concept of Utopia: From Art to Social Movements" In Burne-Jones' masterpiece, "Adam & Eve, " we witness the beginning of humanity's journey towards utopia. As Adam delves and Eve spins, they symbolize the harmony between labor and creation. Walter Crane's vibrant garland represents a vision of utopia, where nature intertwines with human existence in perfect harmony. It reminds us that our surroundings can shape our ideal world. Port Sunlight stands as a testament to a workers' utopia. This model village provided decent housing and amenities for its residents, emphasizing the importance of community welfare in achieving an ideal society. The Salvation Army's propaganda poster from 1910 promotes their social campaign for equality and justice – key elements in any utopian vision. Their message resonates even today as we strive for a fairer world. Hieronymus Bosch's "Garden of Earthly Delights" challenges traditional notions of paradise by depicting both pleasure and sin. It urges us to question what constitutes true happiness within our own personal utopias. Robert Owen envisioned New Harmony as an experimental community based on cooperation rather than competition – an early attempt at creating a societal utopia rooted in shared values and mutual support. D'Oyly Carte Opera Co. 's production of "Utopia, Limited" satirizes the idea that perfection is attainable through governance alone. It serves as a reminder that true utopias require more than just laws; they demand active participation from all members of society. Chief John Francis embodies Native American wisdom, reminding us that indigenous cultures have long held visions of harmonious coexistence with nature – lessons integral to any sustainable future utopia. "The Birth of Eve" woodcut captures the potential for renewal within every new beginning. It symbolizes hope for change and growth towards achieving individual or collective ideals within our imagined paradises.