Tag: theatre

  • Hubert Herkomer, 1849 – 1914. Exhibitions in Landsberg and Bushey

    The exhibition on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Hubert Herkomer, which runs at present in the City Museum Landsberg in Germany and which subsequently will be at display in Bushey near London, should actually be shown at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, at the Pinakothek in Munich and at the Tate Britain. […]

  • Escapes. William Hogarth and the consequences

    Not translated: Fünfundsiebzig Jahre nach seinem Tod tauchte William Hogarth als Akteur in dem Dokumentarroman Jack Sheppard von William Harrison Ainsworth auf, der ab Januar 1839 als Fortsetzungsgeschichte in dem vom jungen Charles Dickens herausgegebenen Literaturmagazin Bentley´s Miscellany abgedruckt wurde. Auch in The Portrait , einer der Illustrationen des Romans, die von George Cruikshank besorgt […]

  • William James Linton´s teaching piece “Cetewayo and Dean Stanley” (1880) – with an introduction by Alexander Roob

    Lintoniana IV “History will speak of me.” – On Linton’s colonial-critical dialogue William James Linton grasped himself foremost as a political artist. In the biographical appendix of the compilation of lyrics, English Verse. Lyrics of the 19th Century, which he edited in 1883 together with the renowned literary critic Richard Henry Stoddard, he left no […]