During the Victorian era, Cassell and Company published several multi-volume editions of "The Family Physician," an English domestic medical manual often available by subscription. Authored somewhat vaguely by "the physicians and surgeons of London hospitals," the work contained information on diseases...
Photography was not open to the masses – too expensive – but I have noticed that a number of the portraits of mother and child/ren groups or just children that exist in my own family have been taken around the time of the father’s or mother’s death. In our portraits the children ...
Spirit photography, mentalism and seances, headless photos, post-mortem family portraits, and a general macabre sense of humor all lent themselves to photos that would make most of us join a convent. Make sure you read this list with the lights on. 1. Turn Of The Century Halloween Costumes...
Although he tended to despise portrait painting, Watts completed many shrewdly observed portraits of his famous contemporaries, notably that of Cardinal Manning (1882; National Portrait Gallery, London). The house in which he died now contains a permanent collection of his works. Britannica Quiz ...
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Syphilis: The Scourge of the Victorian Era June 1, 2024 byIva P. Caution: This post contains graphic images. . Syphilis, a sexually transmitted infection caused by the bacteriumTreponema pallidum, first became a widespread problem in Europe during the 15th century. It reached epidemic proportions...
Changing attitudes to traditional gender roles and the rising middle class meant that by the late Victorian Era, a new age of mass consumerism had begun. Unlike earlier centuries, when it was commonplace for women to help with the family business, Victorians thought a woman’s place was in th...
She was, of course, appropriately fashionable in each era. (Photo: Victoria Eugenie in the mid 1890’s) With the ease of new photographic methods… .. the Royal family could now be followed in their daily lives. They still loved the posed portraits when everyone was able to gather though...
By 1911, the brothers live at Chase Side, Enfield[20], with two servants, while Frank and his family are at The Harpes, Broxbourne, Herts, Frank’s eldest son, Vernon, is also a fine art dealer. Owing to the fact Leggatt Brothers bought so many etchings, engravings, and other reproduc...
Though they are intended to paint overwhelmingly positive portraits of the two men, their children's words give us a sense of these two generals as fathers and the ways in which they reflected standard trends in fathering during the Victorian Era. [excerpt]...