John Payne Jennings, The Dargle Rock, c. 1869, albumen print, approx. 9×11″
Orlando Parry, A London Street Scene, 1834, Watercolor, 71.1 x 101.6cm (approx. 2.5 x 3 feet)
John Payne Jennings, The Dargle Rock, c. 1869, albumen print, approx. 9×11″
Orlando Parry, A London Street Scene, 1834, Watercolor, 71.1 x 101.6cm (approx. 2.5 x 3 feet)
The Aesthete as Caricatured by Punch Magazine
Photographs from Cameron’s years in England
Photographs from her Years in Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka)
Photograph as Evidentiary Record
Hugh Welch Diamond was appointed superintendent of the female department of the Surrey County Asylum, and he made many portrait studies of patients in the early 1850s, which he attempted to use as therapeutic tools.
John Thompson, images from Street Life in London, 1877. The aim of this book was stated as: ‘to bring before the public some account of the present condition of the London street folk, and to supply a series of faithful pictures of the people themselves’.
Mugshots from the Tyne & Wear Archives in Newcastle, England; taken between 1903-1905
Photograph as Artistic Expression
Henry Peach Robinson
(L) “She Never Told Her Love” (1857) and (R) “Fading Away” (1858). Both photographs were staged death scenes.
(L) “Sleep” (1867) and (R) “The Lady of Shallot” (1861) — additional examples of “composite photography”
Oscar Rejlander
Cartoons from Punch Magazine
The New Woman. “You’re not leaving us, Jack? Tea will be here directly!” “Oh, I’m going for a cup of tea in the servants’ hall. I can’t get on without female society, you know!”
Passionate Female Literary Types. The NEW School. Mrs Blyth (newly married). “I wonder YOU never married, Miss Quilpson!” Miss Quilpson (author of “Caliban Dethroned,” &c., &c.). “WHAT? I MARRY! I be A MAN’S PLAYTHING! No, thank you!”
A Sampling of Victorian Photographs — for further exploration, visit http://www.vam.ac.uk/page/0-9/19th-century-photography/
To see more, browse the V&A’s web sites on William Morris
http://www.vam.ac.uk/page/w/william-morris/
and the Arts and Crafts Movement
http://www.vam.ac.uk/page/a/arts-and-crafts/