Gallery: ‘And Wot does the Catlog tell me?' Some Social Meanings of Nineteenth-Century Catalogues and Gallery Guides
Catherine Flood
Fig. 1Charles Samuel Keene (1823-1891), Oil and Water, published in Punch (1870), wood engraving. Reproduced courtesy of V&A Images/Victoria and Albert Museum, London (www.vam.ac.uk).
Fig. 2Attributed to Philippe Jacques Linder (active 1857-1880), English Tourists at the Louvre (c. 1861), oil on board. Reproduced courtesy of V&A Images/Victoria and Albert Museum, London (www.vam.ac.uk).
Fig. 3Maude Alethea Stanley (1833-1915), Ary Scheffer's St Augustine and St Monica (1857), pencil drawing and annotation opposite page 107 in Stanley's copy of the Catalogue of the Art Treasures of the United Kingdom collected at Manchester in 1857, bequeathed by H. H. Harrod. Reproduced courtesy of V&A Images/Victoria and Albert Museum, London (www.vam.ac.uk).
Fig. 4Maude Alethea Stanley (1833-1915) and Richard Doyle (1824-1883), Reynold's portrait of Nelly O'Brien with a group of spectators (1857), drawing in pencil and ink opposite page 74 in Stanley's copy of the Catalogue of the Art Treasures of the United Kingdom collected at Manchester in 1857, bequeathed by H. H. Harrod. Reproduced courtesy of V&A Images/Victoria and Albert Museum, London (www.vam.ac.uk).
Fig. 5Richard Doyle (1824-1883), Girls looking at Armour (1857), drawing in ink in a copy of the Catalogue of the Art Treasures of the United Kingdom collected at Manchester in 1857, bequeathed by H. H. Harrod. Reproduced courtesy of V&A Images/Victoria and Albert Museum, London (www.vam.ac.uk).
Fig. 6Charlotte Isabella Ellis (d. 1891), Gallery scene (1857), drawing in pencil and ink in a copy of the Catalogue of the Art Treasures of the United Kingdom collected at Manchester in 1857, bequeathed by H. H. Harrod. Reproduced courtesy of V&A Images/Victoria and Albert Museum, London (www.vam.ac.uk).
Fig. 7Maude Alethea Stanley (1833-1915), Titian's daughter holding up a jewelled casket (1857), pencil drawing and annotation opposite page 31 in Stanley's copy of the Catalogue of the Art Treasures of the United Kingdom collected at Manchester in 1857, bequeathed by H. H. Harrod. Reproduced courtesy of V&A Images/Victoria and Albert Museum, London (www.vam.ac.uk).
Fig. 8Maude Alethea Stanley (1833-1915), list of dates and names written on a blank page in Maude Stanley's copy of the Catalogue of the Art Treasures of the United Kingdom collected at Manchester in 1857 (1857), bequeathed by H. H. Harrod. Reproduced courtesy of V&A Images/Victoria and Albert Museum, London (www.vam.ac.uk).
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