1st Edition

Panoramas, 1787–1900 Vol 4 Texts and Contexts

    304 Pages
    by Routledge

    The panorama is primarily a visual medium, but a variety of print matter mediated its viewing; adverts, reviews, handbills and a descriptive programme accompanied by an annotated key to the canvas. The short accounts, programs, reviews, articles and lectures collected here are the primary historical sources left to us.

    Panoramas, 1787–1900 Volume 4 Moving Panoramas in Britain, Introduction to Moving Panoramas in Britain, 1820–58 Moving Panoramas by Messrs Marshall Description of Messrs Marshall’s Grand Peristrephic Panorama of the Polar Regions (1820) Description of Messrs. Marshall’s Grand Marine Peristrephic Panorama of the Shipwreck of the Medusa French Frigate (1821) Description of the Peristrephic Panorama … Illustrative of the Principle Events that have Occurred to Bonaparte (c. 1822) Description of Marshall’s Grand Historical Peristrephic Panorama … of the Coronation of Her Most Gracious Majesty Victoria (1838) Charles Brees’s Panorama of New Zealand Guide and Description of the Panorama of New Zealand (c. 1849) Moving Panoramas at the Egyptian Hall: Joseph Bonomi and Albert Smith Grand Moving Panoramic Picture of the Nile (c. 1849) Albert Smith’s Ascent of Mont Blanc Albert Smith, A Hand-book of Mr. Albert Smith’s Ascent of Mont Blanc (c. 1856) The Mont Blanc Gazette and Illustrated Egyptian Hall Advertiser (c. 1858) Mr Albert Smith’s Mont Blanc, Naples, Pompeii, and Vesuvius (c. 1858) Editorial Notes

    Biography

    General Editor: Laurie Garrison, Consulting Editor: Anne Anderson, Volume Editors: Volume 4 Sibylle Erle, Laurie Garrison, Verity Hunt, Phoebe Putnam