Philip V. Allingham, Contributing Editor, Victorian Web; Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Education, Lakehead University (Canada)


Mr. R. Barnes, A. R. W. S., was born in 1840, and educated at St. Thomas's, Charterhouse, at Leigh's School of Art, Newman Street, and under Mr. W. L. Thomas, to whom he was apprenticed in 1856. The illustrations to "Margaret Denzil's History" Cornhill were his first published work, and he first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1873. Three years later he became an Associate of the Royal Water-Colour Society. His work met with recognition at the Edinburgh Exhibition, 1886, and the Adelaide Exhibition, 1887. — The Graphic.

The Graphic published the work of celebrated writers and artists, including the pioneering painter, director, and composer, Hubert Herkomer; the satirical and fantastical illustrator, Sidney Herbert Sime; the distinguished sculptor, Malvina Hoffman; the pre-eminent Romantic author, Victor Hugo; and the celebrated English novelist and poet, Thomas Hardy. Given the quality and quantity of its artistic content, its wide-ranging commentary, and its vivid and determinedly-realistic depictions of everyday life (at home and abroad), this extensive collection captures the dramatic transformations that occurred within British society throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It will be of value to students and researchers interested in British cultural, social, and political history; the history of art; the history of print media; and colonial history. [https://britishonlinearchives.com/collections/114/the-graphic-1869-1932]

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Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge (2 January through 15 May 1886) and The Graphic