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14/03/2022

“Vasilissa” in The New Monthly Magazine, 1867

“Vasilissa” in The New Monthly Magazine, 1867 https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/H._Helley_-_Portrait_of_Kira_Vassiliki.jpg 1531 2000 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 14/03/2022 01/04/2022

In 1867, a story entitled “Vasilissa”, which was published in The New Monthly Magazine, revisited the Greek War of Independence, centring on the figure of a Greek woman who is…

25/02/2022

Cretan Amazons: A dress destined to affect the Parisian and English fashions (The Penny Illustrated, Jan. 1869)

Cretan Amazons: A dress destined to affect the Parisian and English fashions (The Penny Illustrated, Jan. 1869) https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/1869-PIP-Cretan-Amazons-Jan9-2-2.jpg 907 933 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 25/02/2022 25/02/2022

The date is January 9, 1869, the 1866 Cretan Revolt is near its end and The Penny Illustrated Paper and Illustrated Times publishes a short article on a ‘brave, wild, ineffectual,…

16/02/2022

“The Recent Earthquakes in Greece: Survivors Camping out at Atalante” (ILN, 2 June 1894)

“The Recent Earthquakes in Greece: Survivors Camping out at Atalante” (ILN, 2 June 1894) https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/1894-Atalante-earthquake-cover-survivors-ILN-02-June-189_page-0001.jpg 1029 1751 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 16/02/2022 17/02/2022

Originally published in 1842, The Illustrated London News (ILN) was the first newspaper to allow the image to get integrated in the news. As a dissemination of news from outside Britain was slow…

20/12/2021

Byron’s The Isles of Greece Revisited in 1897

Byron’s The Isles of Greece Revisited in 1897 https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/1897-Scenes-Canea-Bay-cover-ILN-March-1of2_page-0001.jpg 1240 1755 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 20/12/2021 20/12/2021

The date is March 4, 1897. Henry Labouchère’s widely circulated London society journal the Truth publishes a parody of Byron’s ‘The Isles of Greece’ under the following introduction: Byron is…

21/11/2021

Nineteenth-Century Admiralty Maps of the Greek Coastline and the Aegean Archipelago

Nineteenth-Century Admiralty Maps of the Greek Coastline and the Aegean Archipelago https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Fig_1-1.jpg 943 1500 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 21/11/2021 21/11/2021

In chapter 8 of Jane Austen’s novel Persuasion (1818), the Miss Mussgroves are poring over “their own Navy List[…] with the professed view of finding out the ships which Captain…

10/01/2021

Drawings

Alexander Ionides, an established businessman and art patron in early 1840s England

Alexander Ionides, an established businessman and art patron in early 1840s England https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/87628566-e1630977870915.jpg 1048 730 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 10/01/2021 07/09/2021

Alexander Ionides a member of an Anglo-Greek family came to England in the 1820s to work in his father’s textile business. In 1833, he established his own textile trading company…

Drawings

“Vasilissa” in The New Monthly Magazine, 1867

Cretan Amazons: A dress destined to affect the Parisian and English fashions (The Penny Illustrated, Jan. 1869)

“The Recent Earthquakes in Greece: Survivors Camping out at Atalante” (ILN, 2 June 1894)

Byron’s The Isles of Greece Revisited in 1897

Nineteenth-Century Admiralty Maps of the Greek Coastline and the Aegean Archipelago

Alexander Ionides, an established businessman and art patron in early 1840s England

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