The Gallery of Fashion is one of the most popular fashion magazines from the regency period. The magazine kept women updated on the latest fashion.
Tag: Illustration
Table of Unusual Creatures
This illustration shows you all sorts of weird and unusual animals including a strange looking catfish, hyena-type dog, rabbit with tusks and a lizard.
How to make your own mythical creature
In ancient times legends and myths about fantastical, mysterious creatures abounded.
Illustration of a ballad singer and fire men in the streets of London, from Rowlandson’s characteristic Sketches of the Lower Orders, 1820.
This little bookis filled with sketches of personalities from London’s streets. It shows images of the jobs and wares that were essential to life in 19thC Britain.
Alice’s Adventures Under Ground’, the original manuscript version of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
This is the original manuscript, given to the real life Alice as an early Christmas present on 26th November 1864.
‘The Tyger’ from William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience, 1923.
The Tyger is an illustrated poem written by William Blake, published in 1794 in a collection of poems called ‘Songs of Experience’.
The Mad Hatter’s tea party, from the colour illustrated Nursery Alice, 1890.
The mad hatters tea party is one of the best known parties. This approach to dining would have been shocking in the Victorian era, as Victorians had strict rules around eating and manners.
Picture Book Maker
This activity lets you make your own picture book starring a cast of animals.