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Book Review
Modelling the Metropolis: The Architectural Model in Victorian London
01/2024 | 1450 | 166
Pages: 101–102
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Reviewer:
Bergdoll, Barry (Bergdoll, Barry)
Subjects
places:
London
styles:
Victorian
subjects:
Architectural models / Architectural history
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Modelling the Metropolis: The Architectural Model in Victorian London By Matthew Wells. 188 pp. incl. 84 b. & w. ills. (gta Verlag, Zurich, 2023), €45. ISBN 978–3–85676–435–7. | :
Book Review
The Architecture of Steam: Waterworks and the Victorian Sanitary Crisis
09/2023 | 1446 | 165
Pages: 1045-46
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Reviewer:
Ribner, Jonathan (Ribner, Jonathan)
Subjects
subjects:
Victorian / Architecture / Water / Buildings / Engineering
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Architecture of Steam: Waterworks and the Victorian Sanitary Crisis By James Douet. 148 pp. incl. 78 b. & w. ills. (Historic England, Swindon, and Liverpool University Press, 2023), £36. ISBN 978–1– 80207–753–7. | :
Publication Received
Frederick Walker and the Idyllists. By Donato Esposito
08/2018 | 1385 | 160
Pages: 709-710
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Reviewer:
Goldman, Paul (Goldman, Paul)
Subjects
artists:
Walker, Frederick / Pinwell, George John / North, John William / Lawson, Cecil Gordon / Macbeth, R. W. / Mason, George Heming / Millet, Jean-François, 1814-1875 / Gogh, Vincent van / Turner, Joseph Mallord William
dates:
1850-1899
media:
Paintings / Prints / Engravings / Watercolours
places:
Great Britain
subjects:
British painting / Victorian / Realism / Pre-Raphaelite / Barbizon (style) / Illustrations / Illustrators / Surveys
Illustrations
Attributed works:
11. The bathers, by Frederick Walker. 1865–68. Canvas, 92.7 by 214.7 cm. (Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight; Bridgeman Images ).
Book Review
Unlocking the Church: The Lost Secrets of Victorian Sacred Space. By William Whyte
06/2018 | 1383 | 160
Pages: 523
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Reviewer:
Saint, Andrew (Saint, Andrew)
Subjects
art literature:
Crook, J. Mordaunt
artists:
Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore / Bodley, George Frederick
dates:
1800-1899
media:
Architecture
places:
Great Britain
subjects:
British architecture / Churches / Religious architecture / Victorian / Catholicism / Protestantism / Religion / Theology / Destruction / Iconoclasm
Book Review
The Art of G.F. Watts. By Nicholas Tromans
05/2018 | 1382 | 160
Pages: 433-434
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Reviewer:
Huxtable, Sally-Anne (Huxtable, Sally-Anne)
Subjects
art literature:
Chesterton, G. K.
artists:
Watts, George Frederic
dates:
1800-1899 / 1900-1909
media:
Paintings
places:
Great Britain
subjects:
British painting / Civilisation / Victorian / Monographs / Biographies
Illustrations
Attributed works:
5. Self-portrait in a red robe, by George Frederic Watts. 1853. Canvas, 154.9 by 74.9 cm. (Watts Gallery, Compton).
Book Review
Frank Dicksee, 1853–1928: His Art and Life. By Simon Toll
09/2017 | 1374 | 159
Pages: 733-734
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Reviewer:
Ormond, Richard (Ormond, Richard; Ormond, Richard L.; Ormond, R. L.)
Subjects
artists:
Dicksee, Frank
styles:
Victorian
subjects:
Biographies
subjects:
Catalogues raisonnés
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Frank Dicksee, 1853–1928: His Art and Life. By Simon Toll | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
56. A confession, by Frank Dicksee. 1896 (Private collection)
Book Review
Painting Labour in Scotland and Europe, 1850–1900, J. Morrison
03/2016 | 1356 | 158
Pages: 208-209
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Reviewer:
Barringer, Tim (Barringer, Tim)
Subjects
dates:
1850-1899
places:
Europe / Scotland
subjects:
Visual culture / Scottish painting / Workers / Victorian / Poor
Illustrations
Attributed works:
56. A hind's daughter, by James Guthrie. 1883 (National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh)
Exhibition Review
The Fallen Woman
12/2015 | 1353 | 157
Pages: 870-871
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Reviewer:
Parker, Olivia (Parker, Olivia)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
The Foundling Museum, London, Great Britain
places:
London / England
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Women / Cultural history / Victorian
subjects:
British painting
Illustrations
Attributed works:
59. Found drowned, by George Frederic Watts. 1848-50 (Watts Gallery, Compton; exh. Foundling Museum, London)
Attributed works:
60. The foundling restored to its mother, by Emma Brownlow. 1858 (Foundling Museum, London)
Publication Received
Art & Soul: Victorians and the Gothic. By Joanne Parker and Corinna Wagner.
07/2015 | 1348 | 157
Pages: 488
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Reviewer:
Vernon, Jonathan (Vernon, Jonathan ; V., J.)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, Great Britain
subjects:
Exhibition catalogues / Gothic Revival / British architecture / British painting / British sculpture / Victorian
Exhibition Review
Victorian sculpture
02/2015 | 1343 | 157
Pages: 129-131
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Reviewer:
Stocker, Mark (Stocker, Mark)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, United States / Tate Britain, London, Great Britain
places:
United States / London / England / Boston
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Sculpture / Victorian / British sculpture
Illustrations
Attributed works:
91. Saher de Qunicy, Earl of Winchester, by James Sherwood Westmacott, produced by Elkington, Mason & Co. (House of Lords, London; exh. Tate Britain, London)
Attributed works:
92. Elephant, by Thomas Longmore and John Hénk, for Minton & Co. (Thomas Goode, London; exh. Tate Britain, London)
Attributed works:
93. A royal game, by William Reynolds-Stephens (Tate Britain, London)
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