Digital Index

The Great Exhibition of 1851: An Illustrated Tour of the Crystal Palace https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/maxresdefault.jpg 1280 720 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 30/01/2021 30/01/2021

30/01/2021

The Great Exhibition of 1851: An Illustrated Tour of the Crystal Palace

Historian Dr David De Haan takes you on an illustrated tour of the Crystal Palace during the Great exhibition of 1851. The tour begins at the main entrance of the glass and iron construction that…

Marie Spartali Stillman (1844-1927), Pre-Raphaelite painter and artist’s model https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/JMCameronHypatia1024_1-e1630977933287.jpg 445 583 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 24/01/2021 02/10/2021

24/01/2021

Photos

Marie Spartali Stillman (1844-1927), Pre-Raphaelite painter and artist’s model

The model in this photograph is Marie Spartali Stillman (1844-1927), the youngest daughter of Eyphrosyne and Michael Spartali, a wealthy merchant who became Greek consul to London. The Spartalis were cosmopolitan and their children, Marie,…

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

10/01/2021

Drawings

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

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 Ionides & Co. Ionides commissioned…

Sketches of Modern Greece in 1837 & 1838 https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/James-Skene.jpg 800 466 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 03/01/2021 04/01/2021

03/01/2021

Non-fiction/articles in newspapers

Sketches of Modern Greece in 1837 & 1838

Anonymous. “Sketches of Modern Greece”. A series of three articles, attributed to James Henry Skene, which attempt to provide the general reader with a broad view of the political, cultural, and financial state of modern…

Voyage from Leghorn to Cephalonia with Lord Byron, and A Narrative of a Visit, in 1823, to the Seat of War in Greece. https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Louis_Dupre.jpg 800 594 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 27/12/2020 13/01/2021

27/12/2020

Non-fiction/articles in newspapers

Voyage from Leghorn to Cephalonia with Lord Byron, and A Narrative of a Visit, in 1823, to the Seat of War in Greece.

James Browne Hamilton. “Voyage from Leghorn to Cephalonia with Lord Byron” and “A Narrative of a Visit, in 1823, to the Seat of War in Greece. (Part I.)” In this series of two articles, James…

The Great Exhibition of 1851 in The (London Evening) Standard https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Joseph-Nashgreece.jpg 2500 1875 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 19/12/2020 19/12/2020

19/12/2020

Non-fiction/articles in newspapers

The Great Exhibition of 1851 in The (London Evening) Standard

The lengthy and detailed passage begins by alluding to the excellence and civilization of ancient Greece and goes on to make specific reference to the intricacy and richness of the Greek costume displayed in the…

Greece as a Block of Marble in The Great Exhibition, 1851 https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/themes/movedo/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 11/12/2020 11/12/2020

11/12/2020

Non-fiction/articles in newspapers

Greece as a Block of Marble in The Great Exhibition, 1851

The following passage, published shortly after the opening of the Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace, very briefly comments on one of the exhibits of the Greek pavilion linking it to the glory of ancient…

Strickland, Agnes (1838), The Azamoglan, A Tale of Modern Greece https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/themes/movedo/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 05/12/2020 02/10/2021

05/12/2020

Fiction/Poetry

Strickland, Agnes (1838), The Azamoglan, A Tale of Modern Greece

The author of the popular Lives of the Queens of England (12 vols, 1840-48) narrates a tragic tale of abduction and apostacy set in the Greek War of Independence. When Helen’s son Alexander is seized…

Julia Pardoe (1839), The Romance of the Harem, London: Henry Colburn. https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/romanceofharem01pard.jpg 180 313 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 01/12/2020 02/10/2021

01/12/2020

Fiction/Poetry

Julia Pardoe (1839), The Romance of the Harem, London: Henry Colburn.

After her successful travelogue The City of the Sultan, Pardoe, a travel writer and historical novelist, published a collection of oriental tales which are narrated by Katinka, a harem slave from Chios, to amuse her…

Mary Shelley (1838), ‘Euphrasia: A Tale of Greece’, The Keepsake. https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/euphrasia.png 1119 1506 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 26/11/2020 02/10/2021

26/11/2020

Fiction/Poetry

Mary Shelley (1838), ‘Euphrasia: A Tale of Greece’, The Keepsake.

Shelley’s short story was published in The Keepsake, an annual illustrated literary collection mainly addressing a middle-class female readership. Using a mise-en-abyme technique, the story begins when Harry Valency, an Englishman, tells his adventure during…

Zakynthos: Murderers and Currants. Excerpt from a 1870 novel reprinted in The Northern Star. https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Zante-1890.jpeg 640 473 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 15/09/2020 22/04/2021

15/09/2020

Zakynthos: Murderers and Currants. Excerpt from a 1870 novel reprinted in The Northern Star.

Excerpt from George Webb Dasent’s highly autobiographical novel, Annals of an Eventful Life (1870). The author explicitly declares the island of Zakynthos as the land of murderers and currants. The book was immensely popular and,…

Punch’s Handbooks to the Crystal Palace the Greek Court through Mr Owen Jones (1854) https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/vestibule-between-egyptian-and-roman.jpg 1600 1200 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 30/08/2020 22/04/2021

30/08/2020

Punch’s Handbooks to the Crystal Palace the Greek Court through Mr Owen Jones (1854)

The Greek Court is approached by a façade having three Grecian doorways of the Grecian Doric Order. The visitor is or may be arrested at the principal entrance by what to the inexperienced eye would…