Unveiled #OTD 1809, in #Birmingham 's Bull Ring, the earliest memorial to Nelson, sculptor Richard Wesmacott's earliest public work, & #Birmingham's first public statue (photo, © Dr Craig Thornber! Many thanks!) victorianweb.org/sculpture/west… #sculpture

At Eastbourne #OnThisDay 1892, Lewis Carroll recorded in his journal just four words: "Death of Alfred #Tennyson." It was a personal blow to him as well as a national event, as Ray Dyer explains: victorianweb.org/authors/carrol….

#TilesonTuesday—wonderful ceramic panels and rondels on Thomas Goode's chinaware shop in S. Street, Mayfair, Japonisme in full swing! victorianweb.org/art/architectu…

For this #woodensday, what better than Helen Wilson's handsome and most enjoyable book on the Pinwell sisters and their brilliant woodcarving career victorianweb.org/sculpture/pinw…

Several MPs were among those present when Queen Victoria visited Liverpool #OnThisDay 1851. She commissioned this painting of St. George’s Hall as a souvenir of her visit. rct.uk/collection/920…

#OTD 9 October 1796: birth of Joseph Bonomi, artist and Egyptologist. bit.ly/2E4d8S0

#Altar of the #Church of #StAugustine & #StJohn, commonly known as #JohnLaneChurch, #Dublin. Designed by #EDWARDWELBYPugin,1860. #awnpugin #pugin #augustuspugin #gothicrevival #edwardpugin #gothicrevivalaltar #altar #gothicrevivalarchitecture #churchofsaintaugustineandsaintjohn

Born #OTD 1802, Hugh Miller, a leading Scottish 19c. palaeontologist, who found fossils of sea scorpions from the Silurian, and fish from the Old Red Sandstone (Devonian) rocks, on the coast near Cromarty.... victorianweb.org/science/geolog…

"Marochetti was the sculptor of the Scutari monument, an obelisk with a complement of four mourning angels for those who died in the Crimea." Left: The obelisk Right: The angel, close-up Crimean War Memorial by Carlo Marochetti: victorianweb.org/sculpture/maro… ~ Victorian Web 20/

Born #OTD 1867 in Leeds, and died in Bournemouth in 1935, Francis Mawson Rattenbury's #architectural career in #Canada was absolutely stellar. Here's his BC Provincial Legislature of 1893-98 victorianweb.org/art/architectu…

Want to know "Where the Victorians Got Their Reading"? Another excellent new review on our site, by Sheldon Goldfarb, looks at Frederick Nesta's collection of essays on the subject. Clue: it wasn't just at railway bookstalls! victorianweb.org/authors/review…

#Didyouknow that Matthew Cotes Wyatt's statue of Wellington, originally placed on the Wellington Arch at Hyde Park, was badly recieved, and thought to be too heavy, so was moved to Aldershot? Punch had a good go at it! victorianweb.org/sculpture/wyat…

Truro cathedral rising above the little city.

I love the wonderfully expressive crouching Atlantids carved by George Frampton on J.J. Burnet's 1890s Banking Hall on Ingram Street in Glasgow. #glasgow #sculpture #architecture #glasgowarchitecture #glasgowbuildings #designdetail #atlantid #atlas #architecturephotography

Interior of the Church of #stthomasofCanterbury, #Fulham, London. 1847-48. It is the only complete #Pugin Church in #London. #awnpugin #augustuspugin #gothicrevival #saintthomasofcanterbury #churchofsaintthomasofcanterbury #architecturedesign #puginchurch #pugindesign #design

Lymington Iron Works on the Tyne, by Thomas Allom, c.1835 for #IronworkThursday—a powerful reminder of the early days of #industrialisation—and environmental polllution on a vast scale victorianweb.org/art/illustrati…

A Study - a young girl in a white dress by Richard Buckner (British, 1812-1883) Private collection

History was in the making last night. Great to see that many Oscar Wilde Society members were there too. ❤️

Turner, unprepossessing in himself, adds a final touch to his painting on varnishing day at the Royal Academy -- an endearing glimpse of his genius in action, caught by a lesser artist, William Parrott: victorianweb.org/painting/misc/… #painting

"From My Window," an illustration by Frederick Sandys—so many artworks of this time show women looking out of windows, longing for love—and a world beyond their restricted lives victorianweb.org/painting/women…