Gallery Exhibits

This gallery accompanies an omnibus edition of Christina Rossetti's "In an Artist's Studio," a sonnet about Dante Gabriel Rossetti's relationship with Elizabeth Siddal.  Siddal was DGR's wife, Christina his sister.  As Christina Rossetti writes of the image of Elizabeth Siddal in DGR's paintings, "One face looks out from all his canvasses,/ One selfsame figure sits or walks or leans."  Although Siddal appears in different guises ("A queen in opal or in ruby dress,/ A nameless…

This gallery is designed to accompany an omnibus edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's (EBB's) "On a Portrait of Wordsworth, by B. R. Haydon," a poem that functions as an ekphrasis of a portrait by Haydon of William Wordsworth. That portrait in turn alludes to previous portraits by Haydon of Napoleon Bonaparte and of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. Further discussions of these allusions can be found in the annotated edition of EBB's sonnet authored by Dino Franco Felluga,…

James Malcolm Rymer's penny dreadful A Mystery in Scarlet was published in the London Miscellany (1866). It was the leading serial, or serial published on the front page of consecutive numbers. Each of the eighteen installments of A Mystery in Scarlet includes a header and three chapters. Seventeen of these installments (all but the ninth) begin with an illustration by the celebrated artist "Phiz" (Hablot K. Browne) and are executed in the medium of wood engraving.…

This gallery has been created to accompany a critical edition of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's "The Sonnet," the first poem of DGR's House of Life. The following images illustrate DGR's "double works," which are associated texts and images; they are discussed in the critical introductions to the critical edition.

Image: portrait of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: albumen print. This photograph, from 7 October 1863, was reproduced as the frontispiece of: Rossetti, William Michael, Dante Gabriel…

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The following exhibit includes reformatted content from The Rossetti Archive, now made available for reassembly through the the COVE database. The content is open access but you need to subscribe to reassemble material into new collections at COVE. We have created exhibits based on thematic elements to illustrate how Rossetti Archive content can be reassembled in interesting ways.  This particular exhibit, one of several on Femine Archetypes, concentrates on The Lover. 

The following exhibit includes reformatted content from The Rossetti Archive, now made available for reassembly through the the COVE database. The content is open access but you need to subscribe to reassemble material into new collections at COVE. We have created exhibits based thematic elements to illustrate how Rossetti Archive content can be reassembled in interesting ways. This particular exhibit, one of three on Femine Archetypes, concentrates on The Maiden.

The following exhibit includes reformatted content from The Rossetti Archive, now made available for reassembly through the the COVE database. The content is open access but you need to subscribe to reassemble material into new collections at COVE. We have created exhibits based thematic elements to illustrate how Rossetti Archive content can be reassembled in interesting ways. This particular exhibit, one of three on Femine Archetypes, concentrates on The Mother.

Birmingham School of Art, the first municipal art school in the country, opened in 1885. Birmingham played an important part in the development of education for both children and adults in the 19th century, and at this time a number of Birmingham institutions were expanding education beyond the walls of universities. The School of Art contributed by instructing students—notably women—in book binding and metalwork in addition to the more conventional subjects of painting and illustration.…

These four elaborate color prints, executed by Robert Prowse (1826-86) were distributed "Gratis" with the first number (10 February, 1866) of The London Miscellany. This periodical was edited by James Malcolm Rymer and carried his penny dreadful A Mystery in Scarlet as its first "leading serial," or serial printed on the front page of consecutive issues. The prominent positioning of the leading serial made it imperative that it be both visually attractive and dramatically…

This exhibit was created for a presentation on COVE at the BAVS 2018 conference and shows sample pages from Livingstone Online.

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This gallery of images will support the Purdue Honors College study-abroad program, da Vinci and the Renaissance, in Paderno del Grappa, Florence and Venice Italy (May 2019). 

This gallery is part of ENGL 202's build assignment.  Research some aspect of Romanticism and then contribute what you have learned to our shared class resource.  As the assignment states, "Add one timeline element, one map element and one gallery image about the Romantic period to our collective resources in COVE Editions.  Provide sufficient detail to explain the historical or cultural detail that you are presenting. Interlink the three objects. I have provided one image as…

This gallery will include images related to the objects each class member has chosen for their material culture research project. 

A guide to coaches and carriages in the noves "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte.

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Various Cigar Ad's from the Victorian Era

Possible contents in a medicine chest or on Lady Audley's boudoir.

Here is a medical journal with medical chest suggestions: https://archive.org/details/b28098109/page/328

This gallery has a collection of images related to the gibbet, gibbet-cages, and hangings in general. 

Curated in partnership with the George Eliot Archive, the "George Eliot Portrait Gallery" features portraits of the writer Mary Ann Evans, known to the world as George Eliot. This collection is remarkable in the number and scope of rare portraits that it presents. And as the editorial introduction discusses, the collection remains in an exciting state of flux, as a newly discovered painting of Eliot was authenticated as recently as 2017, and we anticipate a previously unpublished…

This gallery of images will support the Purdue Honors College course, da Vinci and the Renaissance, as well as its connected study-abroad program in Venice and Florence, Italy (March 2020). 

The Victorian era witnessed the rise of animal protection, zoos, pet keeping, natural history, cattle and sheep breeding, vegetarianism, antivivisection, and dog and cat shows.  But it also beheld big game hunting, blood sports, animal abuse, a burgeoning fashion industry that threatened animal populations, and widespread fears of our animal ancestry, sparked by Darwinian evolution. Animal artists drew exotic specimens and animals of all species observed from…

Artwork by DGR, one of the founding and most important members of the Pre-Raphaelite group of artists

Portraits of and by Victorians

This gallery shows something of the range of art featured in the little magazines of the fin de siècle. The most famous magazine art was Aubrey Beardsley's pen-and-ink work, which he designed specifically for reproduction by line-block engraving, a photomechanical process. These art-nouveau designs, featuring the bold use of line and negative/positive space, gave their signature to the period, along with the posters  and commercial art that they inspired and were inspired by. Some…

This exhibition explores the co-productive relationship between technology and culture in the 19th century. With a focus on the cultural processes and products of invention, it highlights the contributions of women and their navigation of the patent system; examines the cutlery industry as a prime example of how technological innovation, mass-production, international trade and advertising aligned with class-led social aspirations and growing consumerism; and considers how new media…

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This gallery contains illustrations of Victorian-era works assigned for ENG 272: British Literature II (Missouri Southern State University). 

Curated in collaboration with the George Eliot Archive, this gallery provides access to a selection of rare illustrations accompanying some of the major novels and poems by George Eliot. The original publication date is included in each title to provide context, but most of these illustrators' artwork was featured in editions that were published much later.