Monthly Archives: September 2017

A Sampling of Victorian Photographs — for further exploration, visit http://www.vam.ac.uk/page/0-9/19th-century-photography/ By Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879)   By Roger Fenton (1819-1869)   Examples of Post-mortem Photography   By Lady Clementina Hawarden (1822-1865)   By Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)    

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/                      

Portrait of Christina Rossetti by brother DGR Rossetti family, photograph taken by Lewis Carroll in 1863   Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market and Other Poems was first published in 1862 under the careful direction of C. Rossetti and D.G. Rossetti.  DGR … Continue reading →

 The Blessed Damozel, 1875-78 — painted after publication of poem of same name to illustrate the poem  Found, begun 1853-54, unfinished — important pictorial reference for “Jenny”  The Girlhood of Mary Virgin, 1849 — first picture exhibited with the initials … Continue reading →

Nicolas Poussin, A Roman Road (1648)   Claude, Landscape with the Marriage of Isaac and Rebecca (1648)   Turner, Mercury and Argus (before 1836)   Turner, Schloss Rosenau, Seat of HRH Prince Albert of Coburg (1841)   Turner, Slave Ship … Continue reading →

The Townley Vase, Roman 2nd c.  — at The British Museum One of the influences on Keats’s poem “Ode on a Grecian Urn”     The Lady of Shalott 1. Oil painting by John William Waterhouse (1888), about 5 x … Continue reading →