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
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
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West Wall | Picture Gallery
John Syer, Welsh Drovers (1878)
North Wall | Picture Gallery
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2:14
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North Wall | Picture Gallery
Richard Ansdell, The Drover's Halt, Island of Mull in the Distance (1845)
North Wall | Picture Gallery
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1:47
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North Wall | Picture Gallery
John Brett, Carthillon Cliffs (1878)
North Wall | Picture Gallery
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2:00
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North Wall | Picture Gallery
Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding, Travellers in a Storm, Approach to Winchester (1829)
South Wall | Picture Gallery
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1:50
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South Wall | Picture Gallery
George Morland, The Carrier Preparing to Set Out (1793)
South Wall | Picture Gallery
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2:01
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South Wall | Picture Gallery
John Linnell, Wayfarers (1849 & 1866)
West Wall | Picture Gallery
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1:46
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West Wall | Picture Gallery
Credits
Produced by Eleanor Cooper and the Art Collections team at Royal Holloway, University of London.
