Victorian Visual Culture

An Exhibit Exploring the 19th Century Through Images

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About the Exhibition

This is an exhibit created and curated by students in VISA 2P90 (Victorian Visual Culture) at Brock University.

Images from the 19th century are super cool. We should all learn more about them. Yay! What else can I say here? Testing, testing, testing.

Why the 19th Century Was Cool

  1. Photography: Daguerre, Fox Talbot and others rushing to become the first to “fix” an image on a photographic plate. I mean, this is the stuff of drama!
  2. Have you seen the dresses they wore?
  3. We start to see the rise of formalized animal advocacy organizations like the RSPCA in Britain.

The site features objects from the Digital Public Library of America and the Wellcome Collection.