Sculpture Victorious
The exhibition Sculpture Victorious: Art in the Age of Invention, 1837–1901, currently showing at the Yale Center for British Art, opens at Tate Britain on 25th…
Victorian
Dirty Old London: 30 Days of Filth: Day 19
‘Flanking one side of the yard were a score or so of upreared dustcarts, and on the other side, extending almost from the outer…
Dirty Old London: 30 Days of Filth: Day 16
‘Respectable householders and shopkeepers regularly wrote letters to the parish authorities, describing disused doorways or entrances being used as ‘urinals’, citing the offence to…
Dirty Old London: 30 Days of Filth: Day 12
‘The disease was much feared. There was no known treatment; no obvious cause; symptoms were hideous; visitations sudden and frequently fatal.’ Throughout this month,…
Dirty Old London: 30 Days of Filth: Day 11
‘Mud, I fear is immortal. Mud was, mud is, and mud will be. Dig what sewers we may, hollow what gutters we may, the…
Dirty Old London: 30 Days of Filth: Day 8
‘For many Victorians, the capital’s slums were not a source of misery but a profitable little investment.’ Throughout this month, Lee Jackson reveals the…
Dirty Old London: 30 Days of Filth: Day 7
‘In 1849, the notion of modest females requiring such public conveniences was almost inconceivable; or perhaps Bazalgette merely thought such matters too unseemly to discuss with…
Dirty Old London: 30 Days of Filth: Day 2
‘Few know that sweepers worked on defined ‘paved crossings’ – indeed, that the Victorians possessed a precursor of the modern ‘pedestrian crossing’.’ Throughout this…
Dirty Old London: 30 days of filth: Day 1
Throughout this month, in the run-up to publication of his new book in October, Lee Jackson reveals the background to Dirty Old London: The Victorian…
In the Olden Time: Victorians and the British Past
‘When the painter Henry Wallis first exhibited his Chatterton at the Royal Academy in 1856 the painting was acclaimed by the public and critics…
‘Hell Upon Earth’? The True Nature of the Victorian City by Emma Griffin
The Victorian city is often painted as a place of squalor and misery for the working class, where hordes of downtrodden workers were crammed together in dehumanising…