Slide Images for October 5

 Edward Onslow Ford

Folly

1886

 Walter Deverell

A Pet

1852-53

 Rebecca Solomon

The Governess

1854

 Anna Blunden

The Seamstress

1854

 Evelyn Pickering de Morgan

Medea

1889

 Rosa Bonheur

Plowing in the Nivernais

1848

 Rosa Bonheur

The Horse Fair

1855

Elizabeth Thompson (Lady Butler)

Calling Roll After an Engagement, Crimea

1874

 Elizabeth Thompson (Lady Butler)

Balaclava

1876

Elizabeth Thompson (Lady Butler)

The Return from Inkerman

1877

Marianne North

Nepenthes Northiana

c. 1874

Marianne North

Foliage and Fruit of Sterculia parviflora

Late 1870s

Slide Images for October 3

Caspar David Friedrich

Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog

1818

 Eugene Delacroix

Algerian Women in Their Apartments

1834

Joseph M. W. Turner

The Burning of the Houses of Parliament

1834

 “Lady Students at the National Gallery”

Illustrated London News

November 21, 1885

 Ford Madox Brown

Work

1843

 Edith Hayllar

Feeding the Swans

1889

 Alice Walker

Wounded Feelings

1861

 Clementina, Lady Hawarden

Photograph of a Model

1860s

Ford Madox Brown

Take Your Son, Sir!

c. 1857

  Holman Hunt

The Awakening Conscience

1854

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Found

1854

Terms of the Day for October 3

• Romanticism – an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that gained momentum in 19th century Europe and the Americas.  It was a revolt against aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and a reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature.  Artists explored strong emotion as a source of aesthetic experience, placing new emphasis on such emotions as trepidation, horror, terror, and awe—especially when confronted by untamed nature and the “exotic”.
• The Victorian Era - the period of Queen Victoria's reign over the British Empire from 1837 until her death in 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities, and national self-confidence for Britain.  The period was also marked by a rising middle class, sexual repression, and a renewed division of public and private life.