The Victorian Peeper

Nineteenth-century Britain through the looking glass

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Snippets #1

John Ruskin ponders penguins. . .

John Keats borrows a book from the journalist Thomas Alsager. . .

An 1849 court case shapes current discussions about British libel law. . .

Jeannette Winterson restores a Victorian building in the Cotswolds. . .

Ada Lovelace, pipe-smoking computer programmer (right), impresses Queen Victoria. . .

Brontë, Nightingale, and Darwin jump to conclusions about that nagging headache. . .

And finally: Afghanistan? Been there, done that. . .
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Online Exhibitions

  • British Watercolour Societies of the Nineteenth Century (V&A)
  • Crown & Camera: The Royal Family and Photography, 1842-1910 (Royal Collection)
  • The Great Exhibition (British Library)
  • A Higher Ambition: Owen Jones, 1809-74 (V&A)
  • How We Might Live: The Vision of William Morris (University of Maryland Libraries)
  • Maharaja: The Splendour of India's Royal Courts (V&A)
  • Nineteenth-Century Painters (V&A)
  • Nineteenth-Century Theatre (V&A)
  • Photographic Treasures of the Société de géographie (BnF)
  • Queen Victoria and the Crimea (Royal Collection)
  • Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee Scrapbook (Royal Archives)
  • Royal Weddings, 1840-1947 (Royal Collection)
  • Victoria and Albert: Art & Love (Royal Collection)
  • Victorian Miniatures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen (Royal Collection)
  • Victorian Pantomime (V&A)
  • Victorian Sentimental Prints, Drawings, and Watercolours (V&A)
  • Watercolours of the Great Exhibition (V&A)
  • Yiddish Theatre in London (Jewish Museum, London)

Victorian Traces: 153 Places to Visit

  • Abbey Mills Pumping Station, London
  • Albert Dock, Liverpool
  • Albert Memorial, London
  • All Saints Margaret Street, London
  • Anderton Boat Lift, Northwich, Cheshire
  • Audley End House and Gardens, Saffron Walden, Essex
  • Ballater Station Replica of Queen Victoria's Train Carriage, Royal Deeside, Scotland
  • Balmoral Castle and Estate, Cairngorms National Park, Scotland
  • Bateman's (Rudyard Kipling), Burwash, East Sussex
  • Bedford Park, West London (first garden suburb, Aesthetic houses)
  • Biddulph Grange Garden, Biddulph
  • Birmingham Back-to-Backs, Birmingham
  • Birmingham Oratory (Cardinal John Henry Newman's study)
  • Blackwell, the Arts and Crafts House, Bowness-on-Windermere
  • Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham
  • Brantwood (John Ruskin), Coniston
  • British Schools Museum, Hitchin
  • Brontë Country/Haworth, West Yorkshire
  • Brunel Museum, London
  • Brunel's Steamship "Great Britain," Bristol
  • Bunratty Castle and Folk Park, Shannon, Ireland
  • Cambridge Museum of Technology, Cambridge
  • Carlyle's Birthplace, Ecclefechan, Scotland
  • Carlyle's House, London
  • Castell Coch (Red Castle), Cardiff, Wales (William Burges)
  • Charles Dickens Museum, London
  • Cliveden, Taplow, Berkshire
  • Cornish Mining UNESCO World Heritage Site, Cornwall and West Devon
  • County Arcade and Cross Arcade, Victoria Quarter, Leeds
  • Cragside, Morpeth, Northumberland
  • Crimean War Memorial, London
  • Crossness Pumping Station (Joseph Bazalgette), London
  • Dimbola Lodge (Julia Margaret Cameron), Freshwater, Isle of Wight
  • Donaghmore Famine Workhouse Museum, County Laois, Ireland
  • Down House (Charles Darwin), Downe, Kent
  • Drapers' Company, London (principal rooms, garden, and courtyard)
  • East Dene (Algernon Swinburne), Bonchurch, Isle of Wight
  • Elgar Birthplace Museum (Edward Elgar), Worcester
  • Elizabeth Gaskell House, Manchester
  • Famine Museum, Strokestown, County Roscommon, Ireland
  • Farringford (Alfred, Lord Tennyson), Isle of Wight
  • Finsbury Town Hall, Islington, London
  • Florence Nightingale Museum
  • Forth Rail Bridge, Edinburgh/Fife, Scotland
  • Frogmore House, Windsor Castle
  • George Eliot Country/Coventry-Warwickshire
  • Gladstone's Library (William Ewart Gladstone), Hawarden, Flintshire, Wales
  • Glenveagh Castle, Co. Donegal, Ireland
  • Great Ormond Street Hospital, London (chapel)
  • Grove Museum of Victorian Life, Ramsey, Isle of Man
  • Hauteville House (Victor Hugo), Guernsey
  • Highgate Cemetery, London
  • Hill Top (Beatrix Potter), Ambleside, Cumbria
  • Holst Birthplace Museum (Gustav Holst), Cheltenham
  • Hook Norton Brewery, Hook Norton, Oxfordshire
  • Houses of Parliament, London
  • Hughenden Manor, High Wycombe (country home of Disraeli)
  • Ironbridge Gorge Museums, Telford
  • Jackfield Tile Museum, Telford
  • Jerome K. Jerome Birthplace
  • Judge's Lodging, Presteigne, Powys
  • Keble College, Oxford
  • Kedleston Hall, Derby (country home of Curzon)
  • Kelmscott House (Morris), Hammersmith, London
  • Kelmscott Manor (Morris, Rossetti), Kelmscott, Oxfordshire
  • Kensal Green Cemetery, London
  • Kensington Palace, London
  • Kew Bridge Steam Museum, Brentford
  • Kilkenny Castle, Kilkenny, Ireland
  • Knebworth House (Lytton family), Hertfordshire
  • Lacock Abbey, Fox Talbot Museum and Village, Chippenham
  • Lamb House (Henry James), Rye
  • Lanhydrock, Bodmin, Cornwall
  • Leadenhall Market, London
  • Leeds Industrial Museum at Armley Mills
  • Leeds Town Hall, Leeds
  • Leighton House Museum, London
  • Linley Sambourne House, London
  • London Canal Museum, London
  • Manchester Town Hall, Manchester
  • Marianne North Gallery (Victorian botanical illustration), Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • Max Gate (Thomas Hardy), Dorchester
  • Monkwearmouth Station Museum, Sunderland
  • Moorehall (George Moore), Lough Carra, Co. Mayo, Ireland
  • Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute, Argyll, Scotland
  • Muckross House and Gardens, County Kerry, Ireland
  • Museum of Lead Mining, Wanlockhead, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland
  • Museum of London Docklands, London
  • National Liberal Club
  • National Mining Museum Scotland / Lady Victoria Colliery, Newtongrange, Scotland
  • National Railway Museum, York
  • Natural History Gallery, Horniman Museum, London
  • Natural History Museum, Central Hall/Waterhouse Building, London
  • Needles Old Battery, Isle of Wight
  • New West End Synagogue, London
  • North Yorkshire Moors Railway
  • Osborne House, Isle of Wight
  • Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Oxford
  • Oxford University Pitt-Rivers Museum, Oxford
  • Palm House, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • Penrhyn Castle, Bangor, Gwynedd, North Wales
  • Players' Theatre Victorian Music Hall, London
  • Queen Street Mill Textile Museum, Burnley, Lancashire
  • Ragged School Museum, London
  • Red House (William Morris), Bexleyheath
  • Rosedene Chartist Cottage, Bromsgrove
  • Royal Albert Hall, London
  • Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, Bournemouth
  • Saltaire Village, West Yorkshire
  • Salts Mill, Saltaire, West Yorkshire
  • Sandringham House, Museum, and Gardens, Norfolk
  • Schloss Ehrenburg (Saxe-Coburg-Gotha family), Coburg, Germany
  • Scotney Castle, Tunbridge Wells
  • Seaford House, Belgrave Square, London
  • Shaw Birthplace (George Bernard Shaw), Dublin, Ireland
  • Shaw's Corner (George Bernard Shaw), Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire
  • Smallhythe Place (Ellen Terry), Tenterden
  • Somerleyton Hall, Lowestoft, Suffolk
  • Souter Lighthouse, Sunderland
  • St Augustine, Kilburn, London
  • St George's Hall, Liverpool
  • St Mary Abbots Parish Church, Kensington, London
  • St Mary's Church, Wreay, Cumbria
  • St Pancras International Railway Station, London
  • Standen, East Grinstead, West Sussex
  • Steam Yacht "Gondola," Coniston Water
  • Stephenson Railway Museum, North Shields
  • Sudley House, Liverpool
  • Sunnycroft, Telford
  • Tees Cottage Pumping Station, Darlington
  • Tenement House, Glasgow
  • Thackray Medical Museum, Leeds
  • The Argory, County Armagh, Northern Ireland
  • The Grange (AWN Pugin), Ramsgate
  • The Picture Gallery, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey
  • Thoor Ballylee (William Butler Yeats), County Galway, Ireland
  • Tower Bridge, London
  • Two Temple Place, Victoria Embankment, London (William Waldorf Astor)
  • Tyntesfield, Wraxall
  • Victoria Memorial, London
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, London
  • Victorian Surgery at the Old Operating Theatre Museum, London
  • Waddesdon Manor, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
  • Wallington, Morpeth, Northumberland (Pre-Raphaelite art)
  • Watts Gallery (GF Watts), Compton, Surrey
  • Weavers' Triangle, Burnley
  • Welsh Baptist Chapel, London
  • Wightwick Manor, Wolverhampton
  • Wilde House Museum (Oscar Wilde), Dublin, Ireland
  • William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow
  • Wilton's Music Hall, London
  • Workhouse Museum, Derry, Northern Ireland
  • Workhouse Museum, Ripon
  • Workhouse, Southwell

Historic Preservation

  • 2014 -- List of Top Ten Endangered Victorian Buildings (The Victorian Society)
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  • 2010 -- List of Top Ten Endangered Victorian Buildings (The Victorian Society)
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  • 2008 -- List of Top Ten Endangered Victorian Buildings (The Victorian Society)
  • Bibliography and Specialist Collections Guides, National Trust
  • Treasure Hunt ~ National Trust Collections
  • The Georgian Group
  • Heritage at Risk (English Heritage)
  • Society for the Preservation of Ancient Buildings
  • Heritage Open Days (annual event)
  • Open House London (annual event)
  • The Victorian Society

Links

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  • Royal Historical Society
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  • Society for Court Studies

Search Tools

  • ARTstor Digital Library (subscription)
  • Bibliography of British and Irish History (Royal Historical Society Bibliography; subscription)
  • British Library Catalogues
  • British Library: Barry Ono Collection of Penny Dreadfuls
  • British Library: British Printed Collections, 1801-1914
  • British Library: Catalogue of Photographically Illustrated Books, 1839-1914
  • British Library: Evanion Collection of Victorian Printed Ephemera
  • British Library: Lady Eccles Oscar Wilde Collection
  • British Library: Named Collections of Printed Materials
  • British Library Newspapers and Comics
  • British Library: The British Newspaper Archive (subscription)
  • British Library: 19th Century British Library Newspapers Database
  • More About the Newspaper Titles in the 19th Century British Library Newspapers Database
  • British Library: Nineteenth Century microfiche
  • British Library: Research Microform Collections in the Humanities
  • British Library: Select List of Victorian Illustrated Newspapers and Journals
  • British Library: Sounds
  • British Library: Todd-Bowden Collection of Tauchnitz Editions
  • British Literary Manuscripts Online, c. 1660-1900 (subscription)
  • C19: The Nineteenth Century Index (subscription)
  • Connected Histories
  • COPAC: National, Academic, and Specialist Library Catalogue
  • Europeana
  • GladCat: Gladstone's Library (19th-c. British literature and culture)
  • Google Books
  • Google Scholar
  • HathiTrust Digital Library
  • Historical Abstracts (subscription)
  • The Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003 (subscription)
  • Internet Archive
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  • The John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera (Bodleian Library, University of Oxford)
  • JSTOR (subscription)
  • Library of Congress Online Catalog
  • Literary Encyclopedia (subscription)
  • Literature Online (subscription)
  • MetaPress
  • Mundus: Missionary Collections in the UK
  • National Archives - ARCHON Directory (UK)
  • National Register of Archives (UK)
  • NCSE: Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition
  • 19th Century British Pamphlets Online
  • 19th Century UK Periodicals (subscription)
  • Open Library
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ("The DNB") (subscription)
  • Portcullis (British Parliamentary Archives)
  • ProQuest Historical Newspapers (subscription)
  • ProQuest Nineteenth-Century Fiction (subscription)
  • ProQuest Periodicals Archive Online (subscription)
  • Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical
  • "Theatre Notebook" Archive
  • Victorian Database Online
  • Victorian Medicine and Health: Sources Guide (Wellcome Collection)
  • Victorian Periodicals--VanArsdel List
  • Victorian Studies Bibliography (index of current scholarly work in the field)
  • Voice of the Shuttle
  • Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals, 1800 - 1900 (subscription)
  • Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900 (subscription)
  • Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals: The Curran Index, Additions to and Corrections of the Wellesley Index
  • The Women's Library @ LSE
  • WorldCat
  • Yale Finding Aid Database

Resources

  • Aspects of the Victorian Book (British Library)
  • At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837-1901
  • Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature
  • BBC "Your Paintings" (publicly owned oil paintings in Britain)
  • Bodleian Libraries, Oxford: What's the Score at the Bodleian? (crowd-sourced descriptions of mid-Victorian music)
  • BOPCRIS (British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Services)
  • The British Book Trade Index
  • The British Empire: An Internet Gateway
  • British History Online
  • British Library Images Online
  • British Library - Learning: Victorians
  • British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832 (UC-Davis)
  • Brunel 200
  • Burne-Jones Resource Site (Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery)
  • The Carlyle Letters Online
  • Charles Booth Online Archive
  • The Charlotte Mary Yonge Fellowship Website
  • Collective Biographies of Women
  • Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969 (Foreign Office and Colonial Office documents from the National Archives) (Adam Matthew Digital; subscription)
  • Crimean War Research Society
  • Database of Mid-Victorian Illustration
  • The De Morgan Foundation
  • Dickens Journals Online
  • The Dickens Project
  • East London Theatre Archive
  • Edward Lear's Diaries
  • Ellen Terry and Edith Craig Database: A Guide to the Papers from Smallhythe Place
  • English Heritage PastScape (archaeological, architectural, and maritime sites)
  • English Heritage ViewFinder (image archive)
  • FIBIS: Families in British India Society
  • Gaskell Bibliography (Nancy S. Weyant)
  • The Gaskell Web
  • Graphic Arts (Princeton University Library)
  • Henry Irving 1838-1905: Correspondence
  • Hidden Lives Revealed: A Virtual Archive ~ Children in Care, 1881-1918
  • History Compass
  • History in Focus: The Victorians
  • Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases
  • Illustrated London News
  • The Imperial and Global History Network
  • India Raj and Empire: Manuscript Collections from the National Library of Scotland (Adam Matthew Digital; subscription)
  • Leigh Hunt Letters
  • The Letters of Christina Rossetti: A Digital Edition
  • The Letters of Matthew Arnold: A Digital Edition
  • Literary Resources -- Victorian British
  • Literature Compass
  • London Low Life: Street Culture, Social Reform, and the Victorian Underworld
  • Measuring Worth
  • Morris Online Edition
  • National Archives Podcasts
  • NINES -- Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship
  • Nineteenth Century (V&A)
  • Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide
  • Nineteenth-Century British and Irish Authors
  • Nineteenth-Century Theatre History ~ Research Guide (New York University)
  • The Old Bailey Online: The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913
  • The Oscholars (fin-de-siècle literature and art)
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Podcasts
  • The Oxford Text Archive
  • Pinacotheca Petri Plancii (19th-c. artists)
  • The Pre-Raphaelite Critic: Periodical Criticism of the Pre-Raphaelite Movement, 1846-1900
  • Pre-Raphaelite Online Resource (Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery)
  • Price One Penny: A Database of Cheap Literature, 1837-1860 (penny bloods and penny dreadfuls)
  • Primary Source Nexus (Library of Congress)
  • The Public Catalogue Foundation (publicly owned oil, acrylic, and tempera paintings in Britain)
  • The Quack Doctor
  • Queen Victoria's Empire (PBS)
  • Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
  • Researching Theatre and Performance (V&A)
  • Romantic Circles
  • The Rossetti Archive
  • Royal Academy Collections Online
  • The Royal Collection: Royal Palaces, Residences, and Art Collection
  • Royal Engineers Museum, Library, and Archive
  • The Royal Literary Fund Archive
  • Sources for Victorian Research
  • Studies in Scarlet: Marriage and Sexuality in the US and UK, 1815-1914
  • The Swinburne Project
  • The Tennyson Society
  • The Textile Blog
  • The Trials of Oscar Wilde
  • The Trials of Oscar Wilde: National Archives podcast (with documents)
  • This Day in History (History Channel)
  • Trollope's Apollo: A Guide to the Uses of Classics in the Novels of Anthony Trollope (Hendrix College)
  • Victorian Cinema
  • The Victorian Dictionary
  • Victorian Literary Studies Archive
  • Victorian Manuscripts from the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of The New York Public Library (Adam Matthew Digital; subscription)
  • Victorian Military Society
  • The Victorian Plays Project
  • Victorian Poetry Network
  • Victorian Popular Culture Collection (Adam Matthew Digital; subscription)
  • Victorian Prose Archive
  • Victorian Psychiatry
  • Victoria Research Web
  • Victorian Sex Myths
  • Victorian Shrines
  • Victorian Soundscapes (BBC)
  • Victorian Turkish Baths
  • Victorian Voices (National Archives)
  • Victorian Web
  • Victorian Women Writers Project
  • Wilkie Collins Information Pages
  • William Armstrong: Magician of the North
  • William Morris Society (U.S.)
  • Women's History Network
  • The Workhouse
  • W. T. Stead Resource Site

British India

  • The British in India Collection, British Library
  • Beyond the Frame: Indian British Connections, The Open University
  • Early Indian Newspapers, British Library
  • The East India Company at Home, University College London
  • India, British Library
  • India Office Records and Private Papers, British Library

Charles Darwin ~ 1859-2009

  • AboutDarwin.com
  • Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary
  • The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online
  • Darwin Correspondence Project
  • Darwin on The Guardian Website
  • Darwin First Editions (University of Oklahoma)
  • The HMS Beagle Project
  • The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection at the Natural History Museum, London

Charles Dickens ~ 1812-2012

  • Dickens 2012 (comprehensive list of events, exhibitions, lectures, live performances, film/TV/radio, and festivals)
  • Charles Dickens at 200 (The Guardian)
  • Going Mad for Charles Dickens (Smithsonian Institution)

National Archives Podcasts

  • Broadmoor Revealed: The Victorian Asylum
  • Charles Dickens, Warren's Blacking, and the Chancery Court
  • Constance Emily Kent: Nightdresses, Breast Flannels, and Child Murder
  • The Day Parliament Burned Down
  • The First Afghan War (1838-42)
  • From Crime to Punishment: Criminal Records of Our Ancestors From the 18th and 19th Centuries
  • Genius on Trial: Key Sources Relating to Oscar Wilde at the National Archives
  • The Hong Kong Colonial Cemetery
  • Keeping It in the Family: Professional Dynasties in Nineteenth-Century England
  • A Momentous Question: Decorating the Victorian Home
  • Madame Rachel of Bond Street
  • The Metropolitan Police: An Introduction to Records of Service, 1829-1958
  • Nineteenth-Century Soldiers: Getting the Most from Online Resources
  • No Place for Ladies: The Untold Story of Women in the Crimean War
  • Out of the Way of Mischief (Victorian reform and industrial schools)
  • "Revolting to Humanity": Histories of Mental Health
  • Textile Designs 1842-1964: Exploring the Board of Trade Representations and Registers
  • The Thomas Cook Archives (history of travel)
  • Time Travel: A Journey through the Timetables of the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway, 1860-1901

Maps

  • BBC Dimensions -- Map Overlays of Historical Places, Events, and Things
  • Greenwood's Map of London, 1827
  • Maps of Victorian London
  • Victorian-Era Maps of Great Britain (Yale)
  • Victorian London Google Earth

Multimedia

  • British Film Institute YouTube Channel
  • Mitchell and Kenyon: Pendlebury Colliery, Factory Gate, c. 1900
  • Queen Victoria Visits Sheffield, 1897
  • Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, 1897
  • The Funeral of Queen Victoria, 1901

Online Journals

  • Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies
  • BRANCH: Britain, Representation, and Nineteenth-Century History
  • Journal of Victorian Culture Online
  • Neo-Victorian Studies
  • 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
  • Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies
  • Review 19: Assessing New Books on English and American Literature of the Nineteenth Century (NBOL) (book reviews)
  • RAVON: Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net
  • Victorian Network
  • Victorians Institute Journal

Associations

  • Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (US)
  • Australasian Victorian Studies Association (AUS)
  • British Association for Victorian Studies (UK)
  • Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (US)
  • Midwest Victorian Studies Association (US)
  • Nineteenth Century Studies Association (US)
  • North American Conference on British Studies (US)
  • North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (CAN)
  • North American Victorian Studies Association (US)
  • Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland (IRE)
  • Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States (US)
  • The Victorians Institute (US)
  • The Victorian Society (UK)
  • Victorian Studies Association of Ontario (CAN)
  • Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada (CAN)

THE VICTORIAN PEEPER

By Appointment to H M the Queen-Empress -- Purveyor of Communiqués Digital and Historical (est. 2007)

About the Title of This Blog

"Peeper" is Victorian slang for "mirror," although its modern meaning of "voyeur" is also appropriate here, in the sense that I sometimes feel as if I'm spying on the Victorians.

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  • Group Revives Victorian Custom of Post-Mortem Portraiture to Help Grieving Parents
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  • Kidnapped (Prince Alemayehu Tewodros)
  • Shrunken Head(ache) in Oxford
  • Staying on Track: George Bradshaw
  • Victorian Cover-Up
  • Welcome to Jamaica, Mon ... Er, Ma'am
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Victorian Lives

  • Joshua Cawthra (musician, Leeds)
  • Sarah Greengrove (hopper, Kent)
  • John Lovell (tinker, London)

Victorian Things

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  • Stained Glass Window by Henry Holiday
  • Embroidered Panel by Walter Crane
  • Tiles by William Burges
  • Bashaw by Matthew Cotes Wyatt
  • Vase by William De Morgan
  • Wine Decanter by William Burges

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