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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|93 pages
Paintings
part 1.1|22 pages
Artists' materials
chapter 2|1 pages
Winsor and Newton's Catalogue of Colours and Materials for Watercolour Painting, Pencil, Chalk, Architectural Drawing
chapter 3|6 pages
William Holman Hunt, ‘The Present System of Obtaining Materials in Use by Artist Painters, as Compared with that of the Old Masters’
chapter 4|2 pages
V. Surtees (Ed.), Diary of Ford Madox Brown
chapter 5|1 pages
William Holman Hunt, The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple (1854–60)
chapter 6|1 pages
F. G. Stephens, William Holman Hunt and his Works: A Memoir of the Artist's Life, with Description of his Pictures
chapter 7|4 pages
P. G. Hamerton, ‘Picture Frames’
part 1.2|31 pages
Colour
chapter 8|3 pages
‘Notabilia of the International Exhibition: Artists’ Colours’
chapter 9|13 pages
George Field, Chromatography: Or, A Treatise on Colours and Pigments, and of their Powers in Painting, &C
chapter 10|3 pages
A. H. Church, The Chemistry of Paints and Painting
chapter 11|4 pages
Dinabandhu Mitra, Introduction, Author's Preface, and ‘Persons of the Drama’
chapter 12|2 pages
T. N. Mukharji, ‘Piuri, or Indian Yellow’
part 1.3|19 pages
Medium
chapter 13|2 pages
John Ruskin, ‘The Elements of Drawing’
chapter 14|1 pages
Frontispiece to Theodore Henry Fielding, Ackermann's Manual of Colours, Used in the Different Branches of Water-Colour Painting
chapter 15|2 pages
Theodore Henry Fielding, ‘Introduction’, Ackermann's Manual of Colours, Used in the Different Branches of Water-Colour Painting
chapter 16|1 pages
‘Winsor and Newton's Moist Water Colours in Porcelain Pans’
chapter 17|1 pages
Frances Anne Hopkins, Encampment of Voyageurs (1870), Watercolour
chapter 18|2 pages
Mary Merrifield, The Art of Fresco Painting as Practised by the Old Italian and Spanish Masters with a Preliminary Enquiry into the Nature of the Colours Used in Fresco Painting with Observations and Notes
chapter 20|1 pages
Marianne Stokes, Candlemas Day, 1901
part 1.4|17 pages
Conservation
chapter 21|2 pages
Henry Merritt, Art Criticism and Romance
chapter 22|6 pages
Richard Redgrave and Samuel Redgrave, A Century of Painters of the English School; With Critical Notices of their Works, And an Account of the Progress of Art in England
chapter 23|2 pages
Instructions from John Herbert for Unpacking and Displaying the Painting The Descent of Moses
chapter 24|1 pages
Illustrated Instructions from John Herbert for Unpacking and Displaying the Painting The Descent of Moses
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
chapter 27|1 pages
Edmund Gosse, ‘Sculpture at the Royal Academy’
chapter 28|1 pages
Fred Miller, ‘George Frampton, A. R. A., Art Worker’
chapter 29|3 pages
Edwin Roscoe Mullins, A Primer of Sculpture
chapter 30|2 pages
Marion Spielmann, British Sculpture and Sculptors of Today
chapter 33|1 pages
‘Melting the Metal for the Bronze Sphinx to be Placed on the Thames Embankment’
chapter 34|4 pages
Harriet Hosmer, ‘The Process of Sculpture’
chapter 35|1 pages
Harriet Hosmer and Her Assistants, C. 1861
chapter 36|3 pages
M. D. Wyatt, Fine Art. A Sketch of its History, Theory, Practice, and Application to Industry. Being a Course of Lectures Delivered at Cambridge in 1870
part 2.2|24 pages
Social meanings
chapter 37|1 pages
Alinari Brothers, Photograph of Marble Quarry at Carrara, Italy, C. 1860s
chapter 38|2 pages
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun (1860)
chapter 39|1 pages
‘Notabilia of the International Exhibition: Tinted Sculpture’
chapter 40|3 pages
‘Art and Artists: Mr Cordier's Ethnographical Sculpture’
chapter 41|1 pages
‘Ancient and Modern Sculpture’
chapter 42|1 pages
‘The Art-Show at the Great Exhibition’
chapter 43|2 pages
Henry Weekes, Lectures on Art Delivered at the Royal Academy London
chapter 44|1 pages
George Frampton, R.A., Lamia, 1899–1900
chapter 45|2 pages
Marion Spielmann, British Sculpture and Sculptors of Today
chapter 46|4 pages
Alfred Maskell, Ivories
part 2.3|32 pages
Replication
chapter 47|7 pages
Harriet Martineau, ‘The Magic Troughs at Birmingham’
chapter 48|1 pages
Centennial Photographic Company, Elkington & Co.'s Exhibit, Main Building, Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition, 1876, Silver Albumen Print; 33 × 41 Cm
chapter 49|1 pages
Centennial Photographic Company, Interior View of Elkington & Co.'s Exhibit, Main Building, Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition, 1876, Silver Albumen Print; 21 × 26 Cm
chapter 50|2 pages
David Brewster, ‘Application of the Stereoscope to Sculpture, Architecture and Engineering’
chapter 51|1 pages
C. Bierstadt, Publisher, 1043 Una and the Lion
chapter 52|5 pages
‘The Corridor of Statuary-Porcelain at Alderman Copeland's, New Bond St’
chapter 53|4 pages
‘Ghosts at South Kensington’
chapter 54|1 pages
Charles Shepherd, View of Molders Working in the Courtyard of the Quwwat Al-Islam [Might of Islam] Mosque with the Colonnade in the Background, Quwwat Al-Islam Mosque Complex, Delhi, India
chapter 55|2 pages
H. H. Cole, The Architecture of Ancient Delhi. Especially the Buildings Around the Kutb Minar
chapter 56|2 pages
‘Small Bronzes’
part 3|79 pages
Stained Glass
part 3.1|11 pages
Materials and techniques
chapter 57|4 pages
C. Winston, An Inquiry into the Difference of Style Observable in Ancient Glass Paintings, Especially in England; With Hints on Glass Painting
part 3.2|22 pages
Architectural contexts
chapter 59|10 pages
G. E. Street, ‘On Glass Painting’
chapter 60|5 pages
‘Stained Glass as an Accessory to Domestic Architecture’
chapter 61|3 pages
J. W. Mackail, Life of William Morris
part 3.3|11 pages
Style and taste
part 3.4|31 pages
Tools and artistic labour
chapter 65|14 pages
H. A. Kennedy, ‘An Art not Generally Understood’ [Selected Extracts]
chapter 66|2 pages
J. W. Mackail, Life of William Morris
chapter 67|3 pages
C. Whall, ‘Of Colour’, The Artistic Crafts Series of Technical Handbooks: Stained Glass Work
chapter 68|8 pages
E. F. Suffling, ‘The Colours and Brushes used in Glass Painting’
part 4|142 pages
Art of the book
part 4.1|27 pages
Book illustration: opinion pieces and debates
chapter 70|2 pages
Letter from Charles Lamb to Samuel Rogers
chapter 71|3 pages
John Murray, ‘Illustrated Books’
chapter 72|1 pages
William Wordsworth, ‘Illustrated Books and Newspapers’
chapter 74|2 pages
George du Maurier, ‘The Illustrating of Books’
chapter 75|4 pages
William Morris, ‘The Woodcuts of Gothic Books’, Address to the Applied Art Section of the Society of Arts in London
chapter 76|1 pages
Walter Crane, ‘The Decoration and Illustration of Books’
chapter 77|3 pages
Henry Blackburn, ‘The Art of Book and Newspaper Illustration: The Illustrator of Today’
chapter 78|2 pages
Gleeson White, English Illustration, ‘The Sixties, 1855–70’
part 4.2|29 pages
Author-illustrator-engraver relations
chapter 79|4 pages
Correspondence between George Eliot and Frederick Leighton
chapter 80|2 pages
George Birkbeck Hill (Ed.), Letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Willingham Allingham
chapter 82|2 pages
Joseph Pennell, Modern Illustration
chapter 83|3 pages
Henry Blackburn, ‘The Art of Book and Newspaper Illustration’, Lecture 3 (Dec 11 1893)
chapter 84|9 pages
P. G. Hamerton, ‘Book Illustration’
part 4.3|30 pages
Engraving
chapter 85|3 pages
Thomas Bewick, A Memoir of Thomas Bewick, Written by Himself
chapter 86|2 pages
Henry Cole, ‘Modern Wood Engraving’
chapter 87|2 pages
John Ruskin, ‘Definition of The Art of Engraving’
chapter 88|3 pages
M. R. James, ‘The Mezzotint’
chapter 89|1 pages
‘Wood Engraving’
chapter 90|1 pages
International Exhibition 1862: Official Catalogue of the Fine Art Department
chapter 91|9 pages
Charles Dickens, ‘Engraved on Steel’
chapter 92|3 pages
Charles Booth, Life and Labour of the People in London
part 4.4|20 pages
Bookbinding
chapter 93|4 pages
‘A Day at a Bookbinders’
chapter 95|2 pages
‘Bookbinding as a Decorative Art’
chapter 98|3 pages
‘Zaehnsdorf's New Bindery’
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’
chapter 100|3 pages
Charlotte Yonge, The Clever Woman of the Family
chapter 102|3 pages
Jean Ingelow, Off the Skelligs
chapter 104|2 pages
Richard Taylor, ‘Wood-Engraving as an Employment for Girls’
chapter 105|3 pages
‘What to do With our Daughters’
chapter 107|1 pages
‘On Female Labour in the Central Districts’
chapter 108|3 pages
Emily Hill, ‘Artistic Book Binding’
chapter 109|2 pages
George Elliot Anstruther, The Bindings of Tomorrow: A Record of The Work of the Guild of women Binders and the Hampstead Bindery
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’
chapter 111|2 pages
Henry Fox Talbot, ‘Introductory Remarks’
chapter 113|5 pages
Elizabeth Sheridan Carey, ‘Lines Written on Seeing a Daguerreotype Portrait of a Lady’
chapter 114|5 pages
George Cruikshank, ‘Photographic Phenomena, or the New School of Portrait Painting’
chapter 115|3 pages
Frederick Scott Archer, ‘On the Use of Collodion in Photography’
chapter 116|1 pages
‘Dreadful Collodion Explosion in Paris’
chapter 117|1 pages
Advertisement for W.W. Rouch and Co
chapter 119|1 pages
The Imperial Dry Plate Co., ‘Imperial Plates Pilot the Way’
chapter 120|2 pages
‘The Genesis of the Word Imperial’
chapter 121|1 pages
‘Optical Wonder of the Age’
chapter 122|3 pages
‘The Birmingham Mutoscope Company, Ltd.’
chapter 124|1 pages
Cuthbert Bede, ‘Photography Processes’
part 5.2|18 pages
Materials and equipment
chapter 125|1 pages
Cuthbert Bede, ‘Photographic Fancies’, ‘Applying the Black Varnish’
chapter 126|2 pages
‘India-Rubber and its Degree of Solubility’, in ‘Photography – in and Out of the Studio’
chapter 127|2 pages
‘Travellers and Dry Plate Photography’, in ‘Photography – in and Out of the Studio’
chapter 128|3 pages
‘Photography and Warfare’, in ‘Photography – in and Out of the Studio’
chapter 129|1 pages
‘The Poisonous Properties of Bichromate of Potash’, in ‘Photography – in and Out of the Studio’
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)
chapter 133|4 pages
‘The Art of Photography’
chapter 134|2 pages
Cuthbert Bede, ‘Photography in an Artistic Light’
chapter 135|4 pages
‘Photography as a Fine Art’
chapter 137|1 pages
International Exhibition 1862, Official Catalogue of the Industrial Department
chapter 138|2 pages
The Photographic Journal, April 15 1861
chapter 139|7 pages
The Photographic Journal, May 15 1861
chapter 140|5 pages
Peter Henry Emerson, ‘Photography, not Art’
part 5.4|27 pages
Women and photography
chapter 141|4 pages
‘Photography as an Employment for Women’
chapter 142|1 pages
‘Photography at Home’, ‘The Experiences of a Lady Amateur – No. 1’
chapter 143|1 pages
‘Photography at Home’, ‘The Experiences of a Lady Amateur – No. 2’
chapter 144|1 pages
‘Photography at Home’, ‘The Experiences of a Lady Amateur – No. 3’
chapter 145|1 pages
‘Photography at Home’, ‘The Experiences of a Lady Amateur – No. 4’
chapter 146|1 pages
‘Social Fads of the Day’, ‘The Lady Amateur’
chapter 147|3 pages
Adeline Anning, ‘A Profession for Women: Photography’
chapter 148|3 pages
Ruth Young, ‘Photography as a Profession for Women’
chapter 149|5 pages
Amy Levy, The Romance of a Shop (London 1888)
part 5.5|14 pages
Photography as a hobby
chapter 151|3 pages
Alfred C. Harmsworth, ‘How to Take a Photograph’
chapter 153|1 pages
Advertisement for Marion's Amateur Photography
chapter 154|1 pages
Advertisement, ‘Free Lessons in Photography’
part 5.6|21 pages
The new photography