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John Richard Coke Smyth, Elizabeth, Lady Eastlake. Watercolour 4 3/4 in. x 4 1/4 in. (121 mm x 108 mm), National Portrait Gallery,...

John Richard Coke Smyth, Elizabeth, Lady Eastlake. Watercolour 4 3/4 in. x 4 1/4 in. (121 mm x 108 mm), National Portrait Gallery,...

this year‘s Eighteenth-Century Research Seminar series at the University of Edinburgh. The session will present new work on...

this year‘s Eighteenth-Century Research Seminar series at the University of Edinburgh. The session will present new work on...

First up, I really enjoyed watching Dr Juliet Shields’ fortuitously timed lecture, ‘Did Sir Walter Scott Invent Scotland?’, which comes...

First up, I really enjoyed watching Dr Juliet Shields’ fortuitously timed lecture, ‘Did Sir Walter Scott Invent Scotland?’, which comes...

This week the Bodleian Library’s John Johnson Collection of printed ephemera tweeted the following question on behalf of their visiting...

This week the Bodleian Library’s John Johnson Collection of printed ephemera tweeted the following question on behalf of their visiting...

First up this week, is the Victoria & Albert Museum’s exhibition Lockwood Kipling: Arts and Crafts in the Punjab and London, a...

First up this week, is the Victoria & Albert Museum’s exhibition Lockwood Kipling: Arts and Crafts in the Punjab and London, a...

@JacksonLeeTX18 A number of institutions are seeking to preserve the material culture and oral history of last week’s Women’s Marches:...

@JacksonLeeTX18 A number of institutions are seeking to preserve the material culture and oral history of last week’s Women’s Marches:...

First up, I’m hugely excited by the programme for this year’s Slade Lectures, which will be given by Caroline van Eck. Eck’s work on...

First up, I’m hugely excited by the programme for this year’s Slade Lectures, which will be given by Caroline van Eck. Eck’s work on...

Thanks to a 2016 Research Travel Grant from the Design History Society, I was able to conduct crucial primary research for the completion...

Thanks to a 2016 Research Travel Grant from the Design History Society, I was able to conduct crucial primary research for the completion...

Perhaps the most significant event this week, was the passing of the great art critic John Berger, whose hugely influential book and tv...

Perhaps the most significant event this week, was the passing of the great art critic John Berger, whose hugely influential book and tv...

Happy New Year to all my readers. 2017 promises to be an exciting year, but I’ll talk more about that in Wednesday’s post. For now,...

Happy New Year to all my readers. 2017 promises to be an exciting year, but I’ll talk more about that in Wednesday’s post. For now,...