Victorian Designs of Industrial Desire

The Victorian fascination with the world of manufacture—exemplified in the Great Exhibition of 1851—was concomitant with, and probably fuelled by, progress in technical drawing fluency and literacy. Periodicals such as The Mechanics’ Magazine (founded 1823) and The English Mechanic and World of Scie...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Béatrice Laurent
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2018-06-01
Series:Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
Subjects:
art
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/cve/3568