Gallery Exhibits

1855 was the year of the first public exhibitions of what we now would call “war photography,” or “war photojournalism.” The first of the series formally opened on 20 September at the Water Colour Society in Pall Mall, London’s East End, taking advantage of public interest in the Crimean War, the expressed patronage of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, and curiosity about the still relatively new art, or science of photography. There was debate at the time about to which photography belonged…

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This exhibition features Pre Raphaelite works adapted from literature. The Pre Raphaelites borrowed immensely from William Shakespeare, John Keats and from their own Victorian contemporaries such as Alfred, Lord Tennyson to create an aesthetic reminiscent of medieval-style but, at the same time, wholly new. The project of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was to return to a time of freedom where the natural world was supreme and this was articulated through sharp lines and vivid colours. The…

Much like the myth of Proserpine the beautiful goddess abducted by Hades, Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s adoration of the women that modelled and socialised within Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood circles led to an obsession akin to the pull of Cupid’s bow upon the King of the Underworld. “The Stunners” epitomised Rossetti’s, and his fellow Pre-Raphaelites’, proclivity for immortalising unconventional feminine beauty and sensuality, with more than a touch of the femme fatal figure. 
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 Nature was central to the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood's rebellion against approaches to art featured at the Royal Academy in the 1840s, in which the background landscapes were secondary to classicly posed models. The Pre-Raphaelites yearned for the return to a bucolic lifestyle, an imagined idyll of pastoral living, which offered an alternative to the changes brought about by the Industrial Revolution, urbanisation and mass production. Their painting shows great accuracy and attention…

An example of how to use the gallery builder for Clara Dawson's third year module on Global Victorians.

Oscar Wilde's "The Portrait of Mr W.H" was first published as a short story in the July 1889 issue of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. Some time afterwards, Wilde began an extended version of the story, which was lost after his bankruptcy sale in 1895 and never published in his lifetime. However, in 1921 publisher and president of Anderson Galleries Mitchell Kennerley brought to light the manuscript contained in this gallery. This manuscript contains annotated pages from the Blackwood's…

The Victorian period was one of great change for Britain. Comprised of the years of Queen Victoria’s reign (1837-1901), it featured the rapid industrialization and urbanization of Britain, and the radical expansion of the British empire. Although these changes improved the quality of life for some Victorians, many more were forced to work under inhumane conditions, live in unsanitary and insalubrious environments, or suffered the violent oppressions of colonial rule. While we may think of…

 Henry Treffey Dunn, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his Friend Theodore Watts-Dunton at Rossetti's home in Cheyne Walk, 1882, National Portrait Gallery .

 Material objects and historical events and places incorporated into the nineteenth-century British novel position the genre in a cultural moment. Our gallery includes objects, events, or places of importance to…

This timeline is part of ENGL 202's build assignment. Research a topic that teaches us something about race, class, gender, or sexuality 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 race, class, gender, or sex to our collective resources in COVE Editions. Provide images, sources and sufficient detail to explain the historical or cultural element that you are presenting…

This timeline is part of ENGL 202's build assignment. Research a topic that teaches us something about race, class, gender, or sexuality 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 race, class, gender, or sex to our collective resources in COVE Editions. Provide images, sources and sufficient detail to explain the historical or cultural element that you are presenting…

A collection of images compiled by students in Professor Victoria Ford Smith's Fall 2021 British Literature II course. Please see the assignment prompt on HuskyCT for more information.

CONTENT WARNING: This gallery contains racist imagery. Please take care of yourself accordingly.

A collection of images compiled by students in Professor Victoria Ford Smith's Fall 2021 British Literature II course. Please see the assignment prompt on HuskyCT for more information.

A collection of images compiled by students in Professor Victoria Ford Smith's Fall 2021 British Literature II course. Please see the assignment prompt on HuskyCT for more information.

CONTENT WARNING: This gallery contains racist imagery. Please take care of yourself accordingly.

Findens' Tableaux is a gift annual produced between 1837 and 1844. In this gallery, we have the text and accompanying engraving for 5 short stories or poems. 'Arabia: the Arab Maid' (poem by L.E.L.) and 'Africa: The Rescue' (prose by S.C. Hall) are from the 1837 edition (edited by Mrs S.C. Hall, London: . 'Ceylon: The Lost Pearl' (prose by Mrs Mitford), 'America: A Story of the Indian War' (prose by Mary Howitt), and 'Georgia: The Georgian Sisters' (prose by H. Harrison) and from the 1838…

This gallery is part of the ENG 272 collaborative "Age of Romanticism" Map, one element of the Image, Event, Place Project. Add one image that is related or relevant in some way to the work we have been reading in the first several weeks of class. Provide sufficient detail to explain the historical or cultural detail and, perhaps, how it relates to one or more literary works we have read. Be sure to cite your source(s) using MLA bibliographic conventions. One image element is included…

To read James Malcolm Rymer's A Mystery in Scarlet in its original publication context, accompanied by the other contents of The London Miscellany no. 1-18 (1866), please see the bound copy of that periodical in the collection of the Wells Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. A color facsimile can be accessed at Google Books. Here it is. 

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

Argument for the project.

I want to take a look at the way in which Bertha is depicted in illustrations of Jane Eyre, and how her animalistic image is tied to her status as creole. 

 Frankenstein offers a critique of the Enlightenment and the excessive drive of science to obtain “proof” of life in the early 19th century through its portrayal of Victor’s monstrosity in his quest to act as God and father and his subsequent failure to understand his responsibility in those roles.

Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein was influenced greatly by events in England in 1819. These events will be explored in this gallery.

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This gallery is designed to demonstrate through the use of imagery how Robert Browning's "Porphyria's Lover" is a commentary on the social expectations surrounding Victorian women and their sexuality.

Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein using graphic imagery to expose romanticism during the 19th century and to help her readers understand the supernatural in science by using Frankenstein as a reinvented life created from her belief of galvanism.

Exposing the truth about England in 1819, Phercy Selley, creates a treasonist sonnet attacking leaders such as George 111. The sonnet exposes England by using imagery and analogies to show how the military and leaders were corrupt. It describes how blind they were to issues in society such as deadly diseases spreading rapidly and unequal rights between men and women that needed to be adressed. It also tells how rulers leeched on their citizens without facing consequences. Throughout the…

This will be a gallery of images pertaining to the hardships of WWI and the way it influenced poetry and literary works

The exhibits in this gallery have been selected by students in the process of writing their 'object exploration' essays. Each object relates to course texts and themes, as explained in the accompanying descriptions. 

In the pre-raphaelite era, there was a good portion of ridicule toward female sex workers, and it influened their artwork tremendously. Many writers, such as Robert Browining and Christina Rossetti, wrote about the dangers in being a prostitute and where it can lead women to land if they were to live that kind of life.