Organized around five themes dating back to the medium’s beginnings, this exhibition explores nineteenth-century photographs through the work of twenty-one contemporary artists. Reflecting the ...

The Dutch city of Deventer transformed Saturday into a pocket of 19th-century England, with 950 people in costumes bringing characters from Charles Dickens' books to life.Oliver Twist, Ebenezer ...

Lydgate himself marries Rosamond Vincy, the daughter of an arriviste, who lives far beyond his means, which is the cause of their marital conflict. Her brother Fred – that staple of the 19th ...

A 19th-century scholar claimed that "Cocker's Arithmetick" had "probably made as much stir and noise in the English world as any [book]—next to the Bible" ...

Image via Brooklyn Museum Brooklyn’s New Year Celebrations Brooklyn had many different ways to celebrate the New Year. Of course, in the late 19th century, your ability to celebrate depended on your ...

DEVENTER, Netherlands — The Dutch city of Deventer transformed Saturday into a pocket of 19th-century England, with 950 people in costumes bringing characters from Charles Dickens’ books to life.

George Henry Burgess was a 19th-century artist who was born and trained in England, immigrated to the U.S., and became known for his paintings and lithographs of San Francisco and the California ...

DEVENTER, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch city of Deventer transformed Saturday into a pocket of 19th-century England, with 950 people in costumes bringing characters from Charles Dickens’ books to life.

One of these was fashion. During the Romantic era, for example, one could spot a revolutionary from the way his beard was trimmed. In Stanisław Wasylewski’s monumental work Życie Polskie w XIX Wieku ...