Garibaldi and the Risorgimento

Two scenes from the panorama:



A life and times of Garibaldi plus a fabulous panorama at Brown University. From the site:

'Moving' panoramas displayed one scene at a time. Attached to rollers, the paintings could be unrolled slowly as a narrator described each vignette to the audience. Markers attached to the paintings would serve as guides for the persons cranking the piece as well as the narrator. An interval would have been announced upon reaching the end of side one, in order for the staff to turn the panorama around for displaying the second side.

This sounds fabulous.

Conservation

We have to kill it to save it. Link…

Talleyrand

35 caricatures of Talleyrand. Link…

Vanity Fair (1860-1862)

Sharp cartooning and biting commentary. Link…

André Gill

In 1880 André Gill was committed to the Charenton mental asylum. He managed to recover in a few months and in 1882 submitted his first serious painting, "Le Fou" (The Madman) to the Salon. The painting's poor reception by the artists of the Salon sent him back to Charenton. André Gill never recovered his sanity, and after a few months Charenton seized his property and drawings, auctioning them off to pay their bills. André Gill died on May 1, 1885. Link…

Cuba 1963-4

Images from Deena Stryker. Link…

David Douglas Duncan

A selection from the 'World of Islam' gallery. Link…

John Bull

Personification of the UK in eighteenth-century prints at the Lewis Walpole Library [search 'John Bull'] and much, much more. Link…