Season 1 Episode 5: Victorian Visual Arts

Hosted By Vanessa Warne, Jessie Krahn, and Anne Hung

With Guests Jo Briggs, Andrea Korda, and Shalini Le Gall

We’re talking about Visual Arts in this episode: from a miniature portrait to an outlandishly large print.

Transcript

Read a complete transcript of the episode here!

Transcript created by Natalie LoVetri.

References & Resources

Learn more about Jo Briggs’s research.

Explore the Walters Art Museum.

View Kingsley Nebechi’s portrait of Elizabeth Siddall at Pre-Raphelite Sisterhood.

Check out the Miniature Portrait of Elizabeth Siddall at Victorian Things.

Learn more about Andrea Korda’s research.

Learn more about William Strang at the National Galleries Scotland.

Check out “William Strang’s “The Plough” at Victorian Things.

Learn about Shalini Le Gall’s work at the Portland Museum of Art.

Explore the Portland Museum of Art.

Learn about River Works: Whistler and the Industrial Thames (2019), an exhibition Shalini Le Gall co-curated at the Colby College Museum of Art.

Check out J.M. Whistler’s: “The Fleet Monitors” at Victorian Things.

Victorian Samplings was recorded and produced on the territory of the lək̓ʷəŋən and SENĆOŦEN speaking communities of the Songhees, Esquimalt, and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples, and on Treaty One Territory, traditional Land of the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Dene peoples and homeland of the Métis Nation.


Our podcast theme is “Happy Jazzy Ragtime Piano” by Praded, licensed by AudioJungle; our podcast stinger was made and donated by Brandon Christopher.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. Mrs Rossetti. 1860-61, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD (detail).

Victorian Samplings