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1 giorno fa · More than 30,000 British drawings and watercolours include important examples of work by Hogarth, Sandby, Turner, Girtin, Constable, Cotman, Cox, Gillray, Rowlandson, Towne and Cruikshank, as well as all the great Victorians. The collection contains the unique set of watercolours by the pioneering colonist John White, the first ...
19 mag 2024 · Victoria and Albert Museum, British museum that houses what is generally regarded as the world’s greatest collection of the decorative arts. Pieces include European sculpture, ceramics, furniture, metalwork, jewelry, and textiles from the early medieval period to the present day.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
1 giorno fa · The Victorian era of the United Kingdom was the period of Queen Victoria’s reign from June 1837 until her death on the 22nd of January 1901. The reign was a long period of prosperity for the British people, as profits gained from the overseas British Empire, as well as from industrial improvements at home, allowed an educated middle class to ...
1 mag 2024 · Images Online is the picture library of the British Library, the national library of the United Kingdom. We host some of the nation’s best historical collections, in many different languages from across the world, including the private collection of King George III which is housed in the King’s Library. Our images are used worldwide, in ...
2 giorni fa · Thomas Carlyle (4 December 1795 – 5 February 1881) was a Scottish essayist, historian, and philosopher from the Scottish Lowlands. A leading writer of the Victorian era, he exerted a profound influence on 19th-century art, literature, and philosophy. Born in Ecclefechan, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, Carlyle attended the University of ...
10 mag 2024 · Government Art Collection. A work of quite stunning obscurity, Giuseppe Gabrielli’s painting The National Gallery 1886, Interior of Room 32 is not currently on display. But it is online and it...
13 mag 2024 · hot springs, nourishing food and traditional crafts. Here’s one besotted visitor’s plan for taking it all in. Paintings, ceramics, photography, fashion, furniture and more: The Victoria and ...
