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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.   … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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/