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A Fondness for Fronds - Book Review 20 Feb 2012 | 06:32 pm
"Kate Dore with frame of plant forms," Victoria & Albert Museum, PH.258-1982 Among the items in the V&A’s remarkable photography collection is a small portrait by Oscar Rejlander (DNB bio here, Wiki ...
Dishing the Victorian Dirt 26 Apr 2011 | 05:12 am
Imagine living anywhere near this gray mountain of trash in the first year of Queen Victoria's reign. It's the "Great Dust-Heap at Kings Cross" as seen from Maiden Lane (now York Road), painted in 183...
"From Mama V.R. to Helena" 12 Apr 2011 | 05:32 am
A gold, enamel, and garnet bodice brooch from 1830 that belonged to Queen Victoria made fourteen times its pre-sale estimate at auction last week, selling for £11,400. The intricately worked brooch ....
Restored: Ellen Terry's Beetle-Wing Dress 6 Apr 2011 | 11:24 pm
"Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under't." This briefest of lines from Act I, scene 5, of Shakespeare's Macbeth inspired one of the most famous stage costumes ever constructed. When...
Representing the Unrepresentable: Portraying Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam, on the Victorian Stage 5 Mar 2011 | 05:12 am
As many of you know, I'm writing a PhD thesis at the University of Leicester on (broadly speaking) representations of Islam in Victorian drama. I'm focusing on one play in particular, Hall Caine...
Picture Show 3 Jan 2011 | 05:55 pm
In addition to providing a useful list of nineteenth-century illustrated newspapers, this page from the 6 December 1890 issue of The Graphic is...well, just beautiful. Papers in the UK, US, Australia...
Undershaw Under Threat 1 Jan 2011 | 10:37 am
I previously posted about the threat to Undershaw, the Surrey home of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in 2007. As I noted then, quoting The Guardian, it was at Undershaw that Doyle "wrote the 'Hound of the B...
Portraying Poverty 13 Sep 2010 | 02:41 am
More news from the art world... Four paintings by Augustus Edwin Mulready (1844-1904) are to be sold at Bonhams' Nineteenth-Century Paintings sale on 29 September in London. Mulready's works frequen...
"Eadweard Muybridge" at Tate Britain 11 Sep 2010 | 01:33 pm
The pioneering Anglo-American photographer Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) is the focus of a new exhibition that opened earlier this week at Tate Britain. Bringing together more than 150 works, the exh...
“A New Land at Last to Be Seen”: William Morris and Iceland 6 Sep 2010 | 03:42 pm
Lo from our loitering ship a new land at last to be seen; Toothed rocks down the side of the firth on the east guard a weary wide lea, And black slope the hillsides above, striped adown with their des...
