Earlier this month, The Bowler Press, of Vancouver BC, released a limited edition letterpress-printed broadside of FW's letter to AE.Capt. Wentworth's Letter was hand-set in Spectrum italic and printed on Magnani Revere 'stationery' from the White Hart Inn in an edition of 200 copies. The approx. 6.5 x 10.5 inch broadside is printed in four … Continue reading Capt. Wentworth’s letter →

With an introduction by the 19th Century British Photographs from NGC exhibition curator Lori Pauli, and an essay by NGC Photographs Conservator, John McElhone, the catalogue documents the developments in photographic technologies in 19th-century Britain; from historically important paper negatives to platinum prints, works by Julia Margaret Cameron, William Henry Fox Talbot, Frederick Evans, Roger … Continue reading 19th Century British Photographs →

The portraits of notorious society women painted by Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) are considered among the greatest portraits of the Western tradition. Thomas Gainsborough and the Modern Woman is the first exhibition devoted to Gainsborough’s feminine portraiture and the first to focus specifically on modernity and femininity in Georgian England from the perspective of Gainsborough’s groundbreaking … Continue reading Thomas Gainsborough’s Notorious Women →