British Landscapes in Royal Holloway's Picture Gallery
Victorian landscape paintings provide an insight into contemporary attitudes to rural country life, fantasies of place and changing politics of the countryside. Join cultural geographer Eleanor Cooper to explore how landscape paintings in the Picture Gallery fulfil and challenge Victorian experiences and expectations of place.
13 mins
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Patrick Nasmyth, Landscape with Trees and Figures in the Foreground, a Church in the Distance (1830)
West Wall | Picture Gallery
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1:40
John Syer, Welsh Drovers (1878)
North Wall | Picture Gallery
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2:14
Richard Ansdell, The Drover's Halt, Island of Mull in the Distance (1845)
North Wall | Picture Gallery
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1:47
John Brett, Carthillon Cliffs (1878)
North Wall | Picture Gallery
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2:00
Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding, Travellers in a Storm, Approach to Winchester (1829)
South Wall | Picture Gallery
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1:50
George Morland, The Carrier Preparing to Set Out (1793)
South Wall | Picture Gallery
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2:01
John Linnell, Wayfarers (1849 & 1866)
West Wall | Picture Gallery
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1:46
Credits
Produced by Eleanor Cooper and the Art Collections team at Royal Holloway, University of London.