The sculptor Richard Westmacott
wrote to MB
expressing regret at the lack of attention paid her historical work, and contrasting it with the fashion for female gothic by, for instance, Charlotte Dacre
(Rosa Matilda...
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By 9 July 1822: The ladies of England subscribed for a gigantic...
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By 9 July 1822
The ladies of England subscribed for a gigantic statue of the Greek hero Achilles cast in metal from captured foreign guns, for Hyde Park in London, to honour the Duke of Wellington
.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(9 July 1822): 3
January 1850: A Royal Commission was established to administer...
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January 1850
A Royal Commission was established to administer the Great Exhibition.
Boase, Thomas Sherrer Ross, editor. English Art, 1800-1870. Clarendon, 1959.
