ABSTRACT

From chatelaines to whale blubber, ice making machines to stained glass, this six-volume collection will be of interest to the scholar, student or general reader alike - anyone who has an urge to learn more about Victorian things. The set brings together a range of primary sources on Victorian material culture and discusses the most significant developments in material history from across the nineteenth century. The collection will demonstrate the significance of objects in the everyday lives of the Victorians and addresses important questions about how we classify and categorise nineteenth-century things. This volume on ‘Victorian Arts’ will include sources on painting sculpture, book illustration, photography and the much-neglected area of Victorian stained glass.

part 1|93 pages

Paintings

part 1.1|22 pages

Artists' materials

chapter 1|1 pages

‘Varieties’

Art-Union 3:26 (March 1841), p. 49

chapter 4|2 pages

V. Surtees (Ed.), Diary of Ford Madox Brown

(New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1981) pp. 4–5, 21, 34, 44, 76

chapter 5|1 pages

William Holman Hunt, The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple (1854–60)

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Presented by Sir John T. Middlemore Bt., 1896

chapter 7|4 pages

P. G. Hamerton, ‘Picture Frames’

Thoughts about art (London: Macmillan and Co., 1873), pp. 368–373

part 1.2|31 pages

Colour

chapter 9|13 pages

George Field, Chromatography: Or, A Treatise on Colours and Pigments, and of their Powers in Painting, &C

(London: Charles Tilt, 1835), pp. ix–xiv, 4–7, 12, 19, 83, 104, 112, 155–159, 161–163

chapter 10|3 pages

A. H. Church, The Chemistry of Paints and Painting

(London: Seeley and Co., 1890), pp. 136–138, 192–194, 209

chapter 11|4 pages

Dinabandhu Mitra, Introduction, Author's Preface, and ‘Persons of the Drama’

Nil Darpan, or the Indigo Planting Mirror, a Drama. Translated from the Bengali by A Native (Calcutta: C. H. Manuel, 1861), pp. 39–41

chapter 12|2 pages

T. N. Mukharji, ‘Piuri, or Indian Yellow’

Journal of the Society of Arts (23 November 1883), pp. 16–17

part 1.3|19 pages

Medium

chapter 13|2 pages

John Ruskin, ‘The Elements of Drawing’

The Works of John Ruskin, Vol. 15 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 157–159

chapter 16|1 pages

‘Winsor and Newton's Moist Water Colours in Porcelain Pans’

Winsor and Newton's Catalogue of Colours and Materials for Watercolour paintings, pencil, chalk, architectural drawing &c &c (London: Winsor and Newton, 1882), p. 11

chapter 17|1 pages

Frances Anne Hopkins, Encampment of Voyageurs (1870), Watercolour

Library and Archives Canada/Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana at the National Archives of Canada/e000835916

chapter 19|3 pages

Alice Meynell, ‘Mrs Adrian Stokes’

The Magazine of Art, March 1901, pp. 243–246

chapter 20|1 pages

Marianne Stokes, Candlemas Day, 1901

Tempera on wood, 416 × 340 mm, Tate. Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest, 1977

part 1.4|17 pages

Conservation

chapter 21|2 pages

Henry Merritt, Art Criticism and Romance

Vol. 1 (London: C. Keegan Paul & Co., 1879), pp. 80, 133–134

chapter 23|2 pages

Instructions from John Herbert for Unpacking and Displaying the Painting The Descent of Moses

Letter, 1878, Public Records Office of Victoria, 4363/p/unit 9

chapter 25|1 pages

‘Shipping. Hobson's Bay’

Age, 16 February 1878, p. 4

part 2|86 pages

Sculpture

part 2.1|28 pages

Materials and making

chapter 26|3 pages

Anna Jameson, A Handbook to the Courts of Modern Sculpture

(London: Bradbury and Evans, 1854), pp. 3–5

chapter 27|1 pages

Edmund Gosse, ‘Sculpture at the Royal Academy’

Saturday review of politics, literature, science and art, 69:1809 (28 June 1890), p. 794

chapter 28|1 pages

Fred Miller, ‘George Frampton, A. R. A., Art Worker’

Art Journal (November 1897), pp. 321, 323–324

chapter 29|3 pages

Edwin Roscoe Mullins, A Primer of Sculpture

(London: Cassell and Co., 1890), pp. 62–64, 70–72, 74–75

chapter 30|2 pages

Marion Spielmann, British Sculpture and Sculptors of Today

(London: Cassell and Co., 1901), pp. 5–6

chapter 31|1 pages

‘The International Exhibition’

Birmingham Daily Post, 20 June 1862, p. 2

chapter 32|2 pages

‘Large Bronze Castings’

Illustrated London News, 16 April 1881, p. 374

chapter 34|4 pages

Harriet Hosmer, ‘The Process of Sculpture’

Atlantic Monthly (December 1864), pp. 734–737

chapter 35|1 pages

Harriet Hosmer and Her Assistants, C. 1861

Harriet Goodhue Hosmer Papers, Folder: HGH, [c. 1860], Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University

part 2.2|24 pages

Social meanings

chapter 37|1 pages

Alinari Brothers, Photograph of Marble Quarry at Carrara, Italy, C. 1860s

Hiram Powers papers, 1819–1953, Box 11, Folder 9, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution

chapter 38|2 pages

Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun (1860)

(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), selections from Chapter 15, ‘An Aesthetic Company’, pp. 104–106

chapter 41|1 pages

‘Ancient and Modern Sculpture’

London Review and Weekly Journal of Politics, Literature, Art, and Society, 4:103 (1862), p. 567

chapter 42|1 pages

‘The Art-Show at the Great Exhibition’

Dublin University Magazine, 60:356 (1862), pp. 141–142

chapter 43|2 pages

Henry Weekes, Lectures on Art Delivered at the Royal Academy London

(London: Bickers and Son, 1880), pp. 171–172

chapter 44|1 pages

George Frampton, R.A., Lamia, 1899–1900

Ivory, bronze, opals, glass, 61 × 55.3 cm, © Royal Academy of Arts, London; photographer: Paul Highnam

chapter 45|2 pages

Marion Spielmann, British Sculpture and Sculptors of Today

(London: Cassell and Co., 1901), pp. 11–12

chapter 46|4 pages

Alfred Maskell, Ivories

(London: Methuen and Co., 1905), pp. 498–499, 504, 515–517, 521–522

part 2.3|32 pages

Replication

chapter 47|7 pages

Harriet Martineau, ‘The Magic Troughs at Birmingham’

Household Words, 4:83 (25 October 1851), pp. 113–117

chapter 50|2 pages

David Brewster, ‘Application of the Stereoscope to Sculpture, Architecture and Engineering’

The Stereoscope; its History, Theory, and Construction, with its Application to the Fine and Useful Arts and to Education (London: John Murray, 1856), pp. 183–185

chapter 51|1 pages

C. Bierstadt, Publisher, 1043 Una and the Lion

Date unknown (1882–1903), stereograph card; 17.5 × 8.5 cm, Author's Collection

chapter 53|4 pages

‘Ghosts at South Kensington’

Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, 29 March 1879, pp. 391–392

chapter 56|2 pages

‘Small Bronzes’

Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, 31 May 1890, p. 672

part 3|79 pages

Stained Glass

part 3.1|11 pages

Materials and techniques

part 3.2|22 pages

Architectural contexts

chapter 59|10 pages

G. E. Street, ‘On Glass Painting’

The Ecclesiologist, 10 (1852), pp. 237–247 [selected extracts from a Paper read at 13th Anniversary of the Ecclesiological Society, 9 June 1852]

chapter 60|5 pages

‘Stained Glass as an Accessory to Domestic Architecture’

Chamber's Journal (1884, June 7), pp. 359–361

chapter 61|3 pages

J. W. Mackail, Life of William Morris

(London, New York and Bombay: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899), Vol. 2, pp. 37–40

part 3.3|11 pages

Style and taste

chapter 62|2 pages

‘A Card’

Punch, 8 (1845), p. 238

chapter 63|4 pages

‘Stained Glass Windows’

London Journal (20 March 1858), p. 40

part 3.4|31 pages

Tools and artistic labour

chapter 65|14 pages

H. A. Kennedy, ‘An Art not Generally Understood’ [Selected Extracts]

Contemporary Review, 55 (1889, March), pp. 427–442

chapter 66|2 pages

J. W. Mackail, Life of William Morris

(London, New York and Bombay: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899), Vol. 2, pp. 41–42

chapter 68|8 pages

E. F. Suffling, ‘The Colours and Brushes used in Glass Painting’

A Treatise on the Art of Glass Painting (London: Scott, Greenwood & Co., 1902), pp. 81–93

part 4|142 pages

Art of the book

part 4.1|27 pages

Book illustration: opinion pieces and debates

chapter 69|1 pages

Charles Lamb, ‘To Samuel Rogers, Esq.’

The Times, 13th December 1833

chapter 70|2 pages

Letter from Charles Lamb to Samuel Rogers

Sir Thomas Noun Talford (ed.) The Complete Works of Charles Lamb containing his letters, essays, poems, etc. with a sketch of his life (Philadelphia: William T. Amies, 1879), pp. 291–292

chapter 71|3 pages

John Murray, ‘Illustrated Books’

Quarterly Review, June 1844, pp. 168–172 [selections]

chapter 72|1 pages

William Wordsworth, ‘Illustrated Books and Newspapers’

The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth D.C.L., Volume VI (London: Edward Moxon, 1846), p. 212

chapter 73|2 pages

‘Book Illustrations’

All the Year Round, Aug 10th 1867, pp. 151–152

chapter 74|2 pages

George du Maurier, ‘The Illustrating of Books’

Magazine of Art, January 1890, pp. 349–350

chapter 75|4 pages

William Morris, ‘The Woodcuts of Gothic Books’, Address to the Applied Art Section of the Society of Arts in London

Journal of the Society of Arts (40), 12th February 1892, pp. 254–257 [selection]

chapter 76|1 pages

Walter Crane, ‘The Decoration and Illustration of Books’

The Journal of the Society of Arts (Vol. 37), November 1, 1889, pp. 887–898, p. 895

chapter 77|3 pages

Henry Blackburn, ‘The Art of Book and Newspaper Illustration: The Illustrator of Today’

The Journal of the Society of Arts (Vol. 42), December 29, 1893, pp. 93–99 [selections]

chapter 78|2 pages

Gleeson White, English Illustration, ‘The Sixties, 1855–70’

(London: Archibald Constable and Co. Ltd., 1897), pp. 1–4 [selections]

part 4.2|29 pages

Author-illustrator-engraver relations

chapter 79|4 pages

Correspondence between George Eliot and Frederick Leighton

Mrs Russell Barrington, The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Baron Leighton, Vol. 2, pp. 96–99

chapter 80|2 pages

George Birkbeck Hill (Ed.), Letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Willingham Allingham

(London: Fisher and Unwin, 1897), Saturday March 18th 1855, pp. 108–109

chapter 81|5 pages

‘Book Illustration’

Art Journal, October 1902, pp. 315–316

chapter 82|2 pages

Joseph Pennell, Modern Illustration

(London: George Bell & Sons, 1895), pp. xvii–xxi [selections]

chapter 83|3 pages

Henry Blackburn, ‘The Art of Book and Newspaper Illustration’, Lecture 3 (Dec 11 1893)

Journal of the Society of Arts, Vol. 11, January 12 1894, pp. 121–123

chapter 84|9 pages

P. G. Hamerton, ‘Book Illustration’

The Portfolio: an artistic periodical, Jan 1888, pp. 17–21

part 4.3|30 pages

Engraving

chapter 85|3 pages

Thomas Bewick, A Memoir of Thomas Bewick, Written by Himself

(London: Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, 1862), pp. 237–341

chapter 86|2 pages

Henry Cole, ‘Modern Wood Engraving’

London and Westminster Review, 31:2, August 1838, pp. 265–278 (pp. 268–269)

chapter 87|2 pages

John Ruskin, ‘Definition of The Art of Engraving’

Ariadne Florentina: six lectures on wood and metal engraving: given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas term, 1872 (Orpington: George Allen, 1873), pp. 7–11 [selections]

chapter 88|3 pages

M. R. James, ‘The Mezzotint’

The Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (London: Edward Arnold, 1905), Second impression, pp. 57–65 [selections]

chapter 89|1 pages

‘Wood Engraving’

Elisha Noyce, The Boys Book Of Industrial Information (London: Ward and Lock, 1863), p. 134

chapter 91|9 pages

Charles Dickens, ‘Engraved on Steel’

All the Year Round, October 27 1866, pp. 372–376

chapter 92|3 pages

Charles Booth, Life and Labour of the People in London

(Second series: Industry) (London: Macmillan and Co., 1903), pp. 109–113

part 4.4|20 pages

Bookbinding

chapter 93|4 pages

‘A Day at a Bookbinders’

The Penny Magazine for the diffusion of useful knowledge, September supplement, 1842, pp. 377–384 (377–378)

chapter 94|2 pages

Oscar Wilde, ‘Beauties of Bookbinding’

Pall Mall Gazette, November 23, 1888, p. 3

chapter 95|2 pages

‘Bookbinding as a Decorative Art’

The British Bookmaker, January 1892 (Vol. 5), pp. 158–9

chapter 96|1 pages

Advertisement for Lindner's Rollers

The Bookbinder, 1889 (Vol. 2), p. iv

chapter 97|2 pages

‘Xylonite for Book Binding’

The British Bookmaker, March 1891 (Vol. 4), p. 19

chapter 98|3 pages

‘Zaehnsdorf's New Bindery’

The British Bookmaker, November 1890 (Vol. 4), pp. 12–16 (14–15)

part 4.5|32 pages

Book art as a profession for women

chapter 99|4 pages

E. P. Burton, ‘A Few Hints to Women Adopting Wood Engraving as a Profession’

Englishwoman's Review: A Journal of Woman's Work, October 15th 1881, pp. 440–449 (440–444)

chapter 100|3 pages

Charlotte Yonge, The Clever Woman of the Family

(London and Cambridge: MacMillan and Co., 1865), pp. 45–48

chapter 101|2 pages

‘The Victoria Press’

Illustrated London News, June 15 1861, p. 555

chapter 102|3 pages

Jean Ingelow, Off the Skelligs

(Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1872), pp. 469–476 [selections]

chapter 103|2 pages

‘Wood Engraving for Women’

Englishwoman's Review, October 15th 1879, pp. 451–453

chapter 104|2 pages

Richard Taylor, ‘Wood-Engraving as an Employment for Girls’

The Girl's Own Paper, Saturday, September 25, 1886, pp. 822–827 (823)

chapter 105|3 pages

‘What to do With our Daughters’

Hearth and Home (London, England), Thursday, June 18, 1891, p. 146

chapter 106|1 pages

‘Bookbinding by Women’

The Bookbinder, Volume 1 (1887–88), p. 171

chapter 107|1 pages

‘On Female Labour in the Central Districts’

The Bookbinder, Volume 1 (1887–88), p. 167

chapter 108|3 pages

Emily Hill, ‘Artistic Book Binding’

The Woman's Signal, March 17 1898, pp. 166–167

part 5|157 pages

Photography

part 5.1|39 pages

Inventions and techniques

chapter 110|2 pages

Report of Henry Fox Talbot's Lecture ‘Some Account of the Art of Photogenic Drawing or the Process by Which Natural Objects May be Made to Delineate Themselves Without the Aid of The Artist's Pencil’

Read January 31st 1839 and report printed in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, pp. 120–121

chapter 111|2 pages

Henry Fox Talbot, ‘Introductory Remarks’

The Pencil of Nature (London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1844), pp. 1–2

chapter 114|5 pages

George Cruikshank, ‘Photographic Phenomena, or the New School of Portrait Painting’

George Cruikshank's Omnibus (London: Tilt and Bogue, 1842, pp. 29–32)

chapter 116|1 pages

‘Dreadful Collodion Explosion in Paris’

Pall Mall Gazette, September 12 1892, p. 5

chapter 117|1 pages

Advertisement for W.W. Rouch and Co

From the Photographic News Almanac or the Yearbook of Photography for 1863, p. x

chapter 120|2 pages

‘The Genesis of the Word Imperial’

The Imperial Handbook, (London: The Imperial dry Plate Company, 1916), p. 21

chapter 121|1 pages

‘Optical Wonder of the Age’

Peter Parley's Annual: a Christmas and New Year's present for young people, n.d., p. 12

chapter 122|3 pages

‘The Birmingham Mutoscope Company, Ltd.’

The Birmingham Pictorial and Dart, March 11, 1898, p. 5

chapter 123|1 pages

‘Suggestion for the R.A.’

Punch or the London Charivari, May 10th 1899, p. 225

chapter 124|1 pages

Cuthbert Bede, ‘Photography Processes’

Photographic Pleasures: popularly portrayed with pen and pencil (London: Thomas McLean, 1855), p. 29

part 5.2|18 pages

Materials and equipment

chapter 125|1 pages

Cuthbert Bede, ‘Photographic Fancies’, ‘Applying the Black Varnish’

Photographic Pleasures: popularly portrayed with pen and pencil (London: Thomas McLean, 1855), p. 37

chapter 130|1 pages

Advertisement for Thomas's Collodion

Photographic News, January 3rd 1879, p. v

chapter 131|1 pages

Advertisement for Marion and Co

The Photographic News, November 14th 1879, p. ix

part 5.3|34 pages

Photography in relation to the other arts

chapter 132|1 pages

John Ruskin, Letters to his Father from Venice (7th October 1845) and to William Henry Harrison from Vevay (August 12th 1846)

Modern Painters, in The Works of John Ruskin, eds. E. T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn (London: George Allen, 1903), p. 210

chapter 133|4 pages

‘The Art of Photography’

Photographic Art Journal (Vol. 1), January 1851, pp. 1–3

chapter 134|2 pages

Cuthbert Bede, ‘Photography in an Artistic Light’

Photographic Pleasures: popularly portrayed with pen and pencil (London: Thomas McLean, 1855), pp. 32–34

chapter 135|4 pages

‘Photography as a Fine Art’

The Illustrated Magazine of Art, Vol. 3, No. 13 (1854), p. 1

chapter 136|2 pages

‘Photography’

The Crayon, Vol. 1, No. 11 (Mar. 14, 1855), p. 170

chapter 137|1 pages

International Exhibition 1862, Official Catalogue of the Industrial Department

(Third ed.) (London: Truscott, Son and Simmons, 1862), p. viii

chapter 138|2 pages

The Photographic Journal, April 15 1861

(Journal of the Photographic Society of London), April 15 1861, pp. 149–150

chapter 139|7 pages

The Photographic Journal, May 15 1861

(Journal of the Photographic Society of London), May 15 1861, pp. 171–174

chapter 140|5 pages

Peter Henry Emerson, ‘Photography, not Art’

Naturalistic Photography for Students of the Art (London: Dawbarn & Ward, 1899), pp. 53–63

part 5.4|27 pages

Women and photography

chapter 141|4 pages

‘Photography as an Employment for Women’

The Englishwoman's Review, July 01, 1867, pp. 219–223

chapter 142|1 pages

‘Photography at Home’, ‘The Experiences of a Lady Amateur – No. 1’

Funny Folks: A Weekly Budget of Funny Notes, Funny Pictures and Funny Stories, March 28, 1885, p. 99

chapter 143|1 pages

‘Photography at Home’, ‘The Experiences of a Lady Amateur – No. 2’

Funny Folks: A Weekly Budget of Funny Notes, Funny Pictures and Funny Stories, April 4 1885, p. 107

chapter 144|1 pages

‘Photography at Home’, ‘The Experiences of a Lady Amateur – No. 3’

Funny Folks: A Weekly Budget of Funny Notes, Funny Pictures and Funny Stories, April 18, 1885, p. 123

chapter 145|1 pages

‘Photography at Home’, ‘The Experiences of a Lady Amateur – No. 4’

Funny Folks: A Weekly Budget of Funny Notes, Funny Pictures and Funny Stories, April 25, 1885, p. 131

chapter 146|1 pages

‘Social Fads of the Day’, ‘The Lady Amateur’

Funny Folks: A Weekly Budget of Funny Notes, Funny Pictures and Funny Stories, 6th Feb 1892, p. 41

chapter 147|3 pages

Adeline Anning, ‘A Profession for Women: Photography’

The Woman's Signal, March 07, 1895, p. 149

chapter 149|5 pages

Amy Levy, The Romance of a Shop (London 1888)

First American edition (Boston: Cupples and Herd), 1889, pp. 2–13

chapter 150|3 pages

‘Mrs Julia Margaret Cameron’

Womans Herald, April 4 1891, pp. 369–370

part 5.5|14 pages

Photography as a hobby

chapter 151|3 pages

Alfred C. Harmsworth, ‘How to Take a Photograph’

Young Folks Paper, May 01, 1886, p. 278

chapter 152|1 pages

Advertisement for the Meritoire Camera

The Dart, July 22nd 1887, p. 5

chapter 153|1 pages

Advertisement for Marion's Amateur Photography

The County Gentleman: A Sporting Gazette and Agricultural Journal, January 29, 1887, p. 154

chapter 154|1 pages

Advertisement, ‘Free Lessons in Photography’

The County Gentleman: A Sporting Gazette and Agricultural Journal, December 19, 1885, p. 1626

chapter 155|2 pages

‘Cyclo-Photography’

Cycling, May 13, 1899, p. 370

chapter 156|2 pages

Horace Eckert, ‘Some Hobbies’

Pick-Me-Up, October 20, 1900, p. 36

part 5.6|21 pages

The new photography

chapter 157|4 pages

‘The New Photography: Will it Stop Vivisection?’

The Woman's Signal, February 13, 1896, pp. 97–98

chapter 158|2 pages

‘The New Photography’, Hearth and Home

Hearth and Home, February 20 1896, p. 552

chapter 159|1 pages

‘The New Photography’, Judy, or the London Serio-Comic Journal

Judy, or the London Serio-Comic Journal, 26 Feb. 1896, p. 410

chapter 160|1 pages

‘The New Photography And The Lost Missionary Who Went On A Visit Into The Interior’

Judy, or the London Serio-Comic Journal, March 25 1896, p. 462

chapter 161|1 pages

‘The March of Science’

Punch, or the London Charivari, March 7 1896, p. 117

chapter 162|1 pages

‘Awful Possibilities of the New Photography’

Illustrated Chips, 25 Apr. 1896, p. 4

chapter 166|1 pages

‘The New Light and the New Photography’

Nature, August 20 1896, p. cxxviii