Articles
Date | Publication | Topic | AP | RA | Subject | Modes | Keywords | Standards | Rhetoric | Notes |
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1850-01-01 | Germ | WMR Reviews Clough's Bothie | ✓ | literature | critical | Clough Bothie early review The Germ |
PRB aesthetic standards | evaluative, definitive | Earliest review, Germ. | |
1850-02-01 | Germ | WMR reviews Arnold's first poetry collection. | literature | critical | Arnold's 1st poetry collection The Germ |
PRB aesthetic standards | evaluative | Second WMR Germ review statement re: imitation |
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1850-05-01 | Germ | WMR Reviews Browning | ✓ | literature | critical | Browning aesthetic & critical theory |
PRB aesthetic standards naturalism |
definitive | How to create, critique and read aesthetic naturalism. | |
1851-08-01 | London Lit. | Refute Critic's review of Emerson | ✓ | literature | critical | Emerson portrait Scott Critic review |
authenticity accuracy |
rebuttal, definitive | Debunk Critic reviewer's Scott reference Reminiscences ref. |
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1852-03-15 | London Lit. | Defense of WM Cayley's Dante translation | literature | polemical, critical | defend rebut; surprise dismay |
ethos authenticity |
rebuttal, definitive | |||
1861-04-01 | Fraser's | British sculpture past/present/future | ✓ | art | polemical, critical, educational | valuation public awareness |
truth authenticity Greek classicism |
definitive, evaluative, deliberative | Thanks W.B. Scott for praise in letter 28 April 1861. | |
1861-11-01 | Fraser's | Fairness in Royal Academy exhibitions | ✓ | ✓ | art | polemical, critical | RA fairness efficiency aesthetics |
ideals duty fairness |
evaluative, proposal | Royal Academy shortcomings, unfairness. |
1862-07-01 | Fraser's | Academy 1862 exhibition, flawed RA standards | ✓ | ✓ | art | polemical, critical | authenticity aesthetic standards fairness |
classical "high" art | evaluative, definitive | Royal Academy shortcomings. |
1863-06-01 | Fraser's | RA exhibition, RA change, PRB influence | ✓ | ✓ | art | critical | RA policy shift PRB influence Brit school |
current practice potential change value |
evaluative, deliberative | Extends June 63 Fraser's "cannot stop short" Chapman ref Letters . |
1865-04-08 | Athenaeum | Refute review, correct facts | literature | polemical | correction interpretation reference |
linguistic truth authenticity correctness |
definitive | WMR Dante translation defended. | ||
1865-04-15 | Athenaeum | Reinforce WMR's previous translation | literature | polemical, critical | comparison w/15c. Word usage | comparison w/15c. Word | definitive | |||
1865-05-01 | Fraser's | Madox Brown as WMR aesthetic exemplar | ✓ | art | critical, educational, historical | Brown exh. movements PRB |
examples history analysis |
evaluative, definitive, deliberative | See also MB frescoes in Manchester. | |
1865-06-01 | Fraser's | Royal Academy Exhibition | ✓ | ✓ | art | critical | professional criticism public awareness duty |
PRB aesthetic standards | evaluative, deliberative | Ref: Reminiscences 1 PRB preference, RA Academy change hanging |
1866-10-01 | FAQR | Palgrave; role & function of critic | ✓ | art | polemical, critical, educational | professional criticism classical standards |
classical vs. contemporary concepts | definitive, deliberative | Photography/critic: clarity refers to Palgrave 14 Aug 65 WBS letter. |
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1868-04-25 | Examiner | Refute criticism of WMR editorial work on Whitman | ✓ | literature | polemical, historical | refute defend correct |
accuracy clarification facts |
rebuttal, definitive | Multiple Letters/Reminiscences refs included | |
1868-10-01 | Athenaeum | Explain possible WMR Chaucer error | literature | critical | correct explain Latin derivative and use |
accuracy Latin connotation |
definitive | |||
1869-07-17 | Athenaeum | Deny connection between WMR and RA pamphlet | ✓ | art | polemical, historical | deny refute truth RA treachery |
fact truth |
rebuttal, definitive | ||
1869-11-13 | Academy | WMR review of Brisbane's collection of Alexander Smith | literature | critical, educational | poetics aesthetics imagery |
aesthetic poetry imagery |
evaluative | Letters cross reference. | ||
1870-01-01 | Portfolio | Contemp. painters vs. PRB principles & potential | ✓ | art | critical, polemical, educational | authenticity aesthetic standards fairness |
authenticity PRB principles |
definitive, deliberative | ||
1870-08-13 | Academy | WMR review of Keningale Robert Cook | literature | critical | poetics aesthetics imagery effectiveness |
aesthetic poetry imagery |
evaluative, definitive | |||
1871-01-01 | Fortnightly | Newly discovered docs related to Shelley | literature | historical, educational | discovery explanation documentation bio |
historical artifacts facts |
definitive, evaluative | Shelley: new documents. | ||
1871-03-01 | Academy | WMR review of FG Stephens' volume of collected satire | literature | critical, historical | satire evaluation comparison detail |
definition range history |
evaluative | |||
1871-06-15 | Academy | WMR review of Joaquin Miller's "Songs of the Sierras" | ✓ | literature | critical | aesthetic principles illustrative imagery |
aesthetic poetic principles | definitive, evaluative | American poet refs Letters and Reminiscences 2. |
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1872-04-01 | Academy | WMR comparative review of 2 ref works on Dante | literature | critical | comparison value accuracy |
comparison value achievement |
evaluative | |||
1872-04-15 | Academy | WMR review of J.Murray's translation of Elze's Byron | literature | critical, historical | accuracy translation fact documents |
accuracy facts fairness translation |
evaluative, deliberative | |||
1872-07-13 | Athenaeum | Clarify Mary Queen of Scots verses | literature | critical, historical | accuracy connotation context |
context connotation |
evaluative | |||
1872-09-01 | Dark Blue | WMR review of DeVirgilii's poetic achievement | literature | critical, educational | romanticism poetic imagery effectiveness |
achievement effectiveness |
evaluative | |||
1872-12-01 | Academy | WMR review of D.F. MacCarthy's Shelley bio | literature | critical, historical | completeness accuracy fairness |
facts analyzed validated/debunked |
evaluative | |||
1873-06-02 | Academy | William Davis memorialized, RA failures | ✓ | art | critical | aesthetic principles RA failures |
comparison evaluation |
epideictic, evaluative | Heart attack brought on by bad hanging. | |
1873-12-01 | Academy | WMR debunks Raphael attribution | art | critical, historical | accuracy context facts probability |
context value |
deliberative, evaluative | |||
1874-01-01 | Academy | WMR review of Landseer exhibition | art | critical | achievement PRB ascendance |
lifetime achievement rank |
evaluative, epideictic | |||
1874-01-03 | Academy | Memorialize Landseer, publicize exhibition | art | critical, historical | memorial achievement rank |
relative merit accomplishment |
evaluative | |||
1874-01-03 | Academy | Exhibition of Cox & De Wint watercolors | art | critical | achievement comparison to Turner |
worthy aesthetic execution | evaluative | |||
1874-01-31 | Academy | WMR review of WH Wilshire reference book | literature | critical, educational | artisanship achievement engraving |
thoroughness comparative merit |
evaluative, definitive | |||
1874-02-07 | Academy | Dudley Gallery, part 1 | art | critical, polemical | mediocrity poor quality low achievement |
PRB aesthetic standards | evaluative | Hanging gripe. | ||
1874-02-14 | Academy | Dudley Gallery, part 2 | art | critical | mediocrity poor quality low achievement |
PRB aesthetic standards | evaluative | |||
1874-02-28 | Academy | WMR reviews Garnett's edition of Shelley | literature | historical | inaccuracy mistranslation omission |
facts history |
evaluative | Shelley edition, disputed emendations. | ||
1874-03-21 | Academy | WMR review of FG Stephens' vol. 2 of collected satire | art lit |
critical, historical | satire evaluation comparison detail |
definition range history; accuracy |
evaluative, deliberative | Vol 1 reviewed March 1871. | ||
1874-03-21 | Academy | Announce Simpson's "Round the world" exhibit | art | journalistic | Simpson exhibition world pictures |
fact news |
definitive | Equivocates criticism announcement mostly. |
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1874-03-28 | Academy | Society of Lady Artists exhibition | art | critical, historical | relative merit imagery "ambisexual" art |
poesy imagery rank merit |
evaluative | |||
1874-04-18 | Academy | WMR notice of 2 Regnault oil paintings | art | critical, polemical | social &aesthetic standards | rank execution design PRB |
evaluative, definitive | Ref. Memoir 2. | ||
1874-06-20 | Academy | Cole's Intn'l Exhibition; Quality & Bias | art | critical, polemical, educational | RA deficiency definition standards |
PRB standards RA strictures |
evaluative, deliberative | RA, poor quality foreign art, bias Cole controversy, letters ref. |
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1874-06-27 | Academy | Munich Gallery exhibition | art | critical, polemical, educational | accuracy quality rank |
PRB standards value accomplishment |
evaluative, deliberative | "the inner hierarchy of art . . ." | ||
1874-08-15 | Academy | Dore Gallery | art | critical | achievement excellence success |
PRB aesthetic standards | evaluative | "Over-prolific French master" | ||
1874-09-05 | Academy | WMR memorializes JH Foley | art | critical, historical, educational | sculpture preeminence rank |
lifetime achievement rank |
epideictic, definitive | Suggests RA elect Woolner to replace Foley done Dec 12 74 Academy. |
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1874-09-05 | Academy | WMR reviews Shepard's "Blake" | literature | critical | accuracy Blake edition Shepard ed. |
accuracy precision |
evaluative, definitive | Blake edition, Shepard ed. | ||
1874-10-31 | Academy | WMR reviews W. Stillman's historical narrative | literature | critical | narrative history Cretan insurrection |
facts history |
evaluative | Stillman former US ambassador to Greece see Letters, 141. |
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1874-10-31 | Academy | Dudley Gallery | art | critical | cabinet pictures oil |
PRB aesthetic standards merit |
evaluative | |||
1874-10-10 | Academy | Rebut Blake publisher criticism of WMR review | literature | critical, polemical | copyright accuracy facts rebuttal |
facts analyzed validated/debunked |
evaluative, rebuttal | WMR Blake review Sep. 5, 1874, Academy. | ||
1874-11-07 | Academy | WMR reviews "The New British Institution" | art | critical, polemical | trivial intellectual realism reproductive art |
PRB aesthetic standards | evaluative, deliberative | Not all French ". . . sometimes to be called stupid." |
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1874-11-21 | Academy | Society of French Artists, part 1 | art | critical | execution intellectual content importance |
PRB aesthetic standards | evaluative | |||
1874-11-28 | Academy | Society of French Artists, part 2 | art | critical | execution intellectual content importance |
PRB aesthetic standards | evaluative | Part 2. The importance of a well-executed national art school. | ||
1874-12-05 | Academy | Society of British Artists | art | critical, polemical | purposeless bad art |
PRB aesthetic standards | evaluative | |||
1874-12-12 | Academy | WMR pans Flemish Gallery exhibition | art | critical, polemical | foreign schools not all Flemish low art |
PRB aesthetic standards | evaluative | Leys, 1 painting not all Flemish work on page: Woolner replaces Foley RA. |
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1874-12-19 | Academy | New docs support MacCarthy's Shelley account | literature | historical, critical | new docs Oxford pub & expulsion |
historical artifacts facts |
definitive, evaluative | Shelley, 12-1872 orig. WMR review of MacCarthy's Shelley. | ||
1874-12-19 | Academy | Riddell's personal Blake mss. | literature | critical, historical | Riddell volume Burns poetry |
historical artifacts facts |
evaluative | Burns, personal volume of Riddell. | ||
1875-01-09 | Academy | Water-Colour Society Gallery, "Sketches/Studies" | art | critical | annual exhibition relative merit watercolor |
PRB aesthetic standards value |
evaluative | WMR picturesque prose "Younger RA members stand out." |
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1875-01-16 | Academy | Water-Colour Society Gallery, part 2. | art | critical | water-colour achievement merit value |
PRB aesthetic standards past practice |
evaluative | Ruskin's paintings reviewed. | ||
1875-02-02 | Academy | Dudley Gallery, second notice | art | critical | Dudley portraits/landscapes female painters |
PRB aesthetic standards past practice |
evaluative | High percentage of female painters. | ||
1875-02-06 | Academy | Dudley Gallery, first notice | art | critical, educational | poetic painting; water-colour exhibition | PRB aesthetic standards | evaluative | Poynter as poetic painting exemplar, catalogue sonnet. |
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1875-02-13 | Academy | Agnew exhib. "High-class Watercolour Drawings" | art | critical | Priv. exhib. Agnew water-colour | PRB aesthetic standards past practice |
evaluative | Painted by William Millais noted. | ||
1875-03-13 | Academy | The New British Institution | art | critical | New Brit. Inst.; foreign art excess exhibit |
PRB aesthetics authenticity |
evaluative, definitive | Questions "Institution painting from Antwerp, "Circle of Pigs." |
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1875-03-13 | Academy | Mr. J. Birnie Philips | art | memorial | Compare Birnie Philip w/Armstead | PRB aesthetic standards body of work |
definitive, evaluative | Sculptors compared, Philip deceased. | ||
1875-03-20 | Academy | Paintings by Elijah Walton | art | critical, journalistic | announce collection evaluate Walton |
PRB aesthetic standards merit |
evaluative | Single-painter exhibit. | ||
1875-03-27 | Academy | The Linnell exhibition | art | critical, polemical | Linnell Pall Mall E.T. White |
PRB aesthetic standards exhib. Stds. |
evaluative | Criticizes inclusion of "trade-interest" works photography compared. |
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1875-03-27 | Academy | WMR review Marston's "All in All: Poems & Sonnets" | literature | critical | volume reviewed Marston |
classic poetic constructs and achievement | evaluative | Cheyne Walk Circle comp. to DGR, Swinburne, Shelley. |
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1875-04-10 | Academy | WMR pans Belgian Gallery & promoter | art | critical, polemical, educational | Belgian gallery poor quality |
aesthetic norms value accomplishment |
evaluative, definitive | Forgery of Landseer cheap art at expensive of Brit art public. |
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1875-04-10 | Academy | French Gallery | art | critical, polemical | continental art; non-Academy | PRB aesthetic standards non-RA |
evaluative, definitive | Direct comparison to early PRB. | ||
1875-05-01 | Academy | Water-Colour Institute, second notice | art | critical | landscapes watercolor |
PRB aesthetic standards | evaluative | Brief notice. | ||
1875-05-15 | Academy | Royal Academy, second notice | ✓ | art | critical, polemical | RA exhibition historical & general subjects |
PRB aesthetic standards | evaluative | Albert Moore "fatuity of praise" Prince of Wales, "led like asses." |
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1875-05-22 | Academy | Royal Academy, third notice | ✓ | art | critical | RA domestic and general subjects | PRB aesthetic standards | evaluative | Cheyne Walk Circle Millais, foreign schools.. |
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1875-05-22 | Academy | Society of French Art exhibition | art | critical | sub-std art patronage uninformed market |
aesthetic standards | evaluative | Poor art + uninformed buyers = loss for good art. Cheyne Walk cir. | ||
1875-05-29 | Academy | Society of French Artists, second notice | art | critical | exhibition analysis critique commentary |
PRB aesthetic standards merit |
evaluative | Tadema reference x 3 members Cheyne Walk circle. | ||
1875-05-29 | Academy | Water-Colour Society, second notice | art | critical | Water-Colour Society landscapes animals |
PRB aesthetic standards merit |
evaluative | |||
1875-06-05 | Academy | Royal Academy, fourth notice | ✓ | art | critical | exhibition analysis critique commentary |
RA exhibition relative merit |
evaluative | ||
1875-06-12 | Academy | Goupil's "gallery" | art | critical, polemical | Goupil "fashionable art;" low-merit art |
PRB aesthetic standards | definitive, evaluative | Debunk "paid" exhibit def. "fashionable" works . |
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1875-06-12 | Academy | WMR memorializes Walker | art | historical | Walker memorialized | Comparative merit of Walker's work | epideictic | def. naturalness in art. | ||
1875-06-19 | Academy | Royal Academy, fifth notice | ✓ | art | critical | portraits & animals RA 1875 PRB artists |
PRB aesthetic standards | evaluative | PRB exemplified stds. hanging problems w/RA. |
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1875-06-26 | Academy | The International Exhibition | art | critical, polemical | "worthless" exhib. illegitimate means $ v. art |
classical aesthetic standards | evaluative, definitive | Strongest condemnation art of "illegitimate means." |
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1875-07-03 | Academy | Royal Academy, sixth notice | ✓ | art | critical | landscapes "Hook-scapes" poetic imagery |
PRB aesthetic standards poetic imagery |
evaluative | "Landscape description seldom an attractive operation." | |
1875-07-10 | Academy | WMR visits La Maison Leys, Antwerp | art | historical | Baron Ley's home artwork bio. frescoes |
Tour of Maison Leys Antwerp |
definitive | Peripatetic physicality, narration. |
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1875-07-17 | Academy | Royal Academy, final notice | ✓ | art | critical, educational | etch/draw/sculpture/architecture RA | PRB aesthetic standards | evaluative, deliberative | First purpose, good art, not good price. "Sterling art for sterling coin" | |
1875-07-31 | Academy | Madox-Brown's "King Lear" | ✓ | art lit |
critical, polemical | Brown Lear intertextuality: art lit drama |
dramatic poetic aesthetic value |
definitive, evaluative | Intertextuality: art-lit-drama RA type degrade Cheyne Walk Circle. |
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1875-10-03 | Academy | Dudley Gallery, first notice | art | critical, polemical | Dudley oils Whistler Watts Hughes |
PRB aesthetic standards past exhibs. |
evaluative | Whistler noted as "leading exhibitor of the year." | ||
1875-10-09 | Academy | Royal Academy Photo Album | ✓ | art | critical, polemical | RA Album photographed art problems |
results appropriateness fairness |
evaluative | First WMR re: photography PRB best of year vs. RA. |
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1875-11-06 | Academy | Dudley Gallery, second notice | art | critical | Dudley landscapes figures animals |
PRB aesthetic standards merit |
evaluative | Leslie rebuke for $ painting. | ||
1875-11-13 | Academy | Frere collection | art | critical | Frere collection Agnew Waterloo Place |
PRB aesthetic standards merit |
evaluative | Cites critical "over-praising" of Frere uninformed patronage. |
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1875-11-27 | Academy | Society of French Artists exhibition | art | critical | Soc. French artists figures landscapes flowers |
PRB aesthetic standards merit |
evaluative | Whistler prominent. | ||
1875-12-04 | Academy | WMR memorializes Alfred Boyd Houghton | art | journalistic, critical | Houghton obituary/memorial | lifetime achievement rank |
epideictic | |||
1875-12-04 | Musical W. | WMR presents new evidence re: Shelley murder | literature | journalistic, historical | Shelley?s death murder evidence confession. |
letter from Trelawney's daughter | definitive | WMR cites this letter in later lectures/essays. | ||
1875-12-04 | Academy | WMR reconstructs Shelley's drowning | literature | historical, journalistic, educational | Shelley's death murder evidence |
multiple sources witness confession |
definitive | WMR cites this letter in later lectures/essays. | ||
1875-12-11 | Academy | Water Colour Institute | art | critical | water-colour achievement merit value |
PRB aesthetic standards | evaluative | Part 1 landscapes reserved for part 2 "like DGR" reference. |
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1875-12-18 | Academy | Society of British Artists exhibition | art | critical | comparative value accomplishment merit |
PRB aesthetic standards | evaluative | Part 1 of 2 PRB comp., Japanese-mania. |
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1875-12-25 | Academy | Brit. Artists & Watercolour Inst./Soc. Brit. Artists | art | critical | wrap up 2 other reviews of 2 groups/exh. | PRB aesthetic standards | evaluative | Female painters reviewed on par combo review Shelley. |
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1876-01-29 | Academy | Obit. Of Sir Geo. Harvey, Royal Scottish Acad. Pres. | art | journalistic | Harvey Scottish Academy pres. successor |
historical fact | epideictic, deliberative | Recommends Paton as successor. | ||
1876-02-05 | Academy | Dudley Gallery | art | critical, polemical | Dudley mediocre exhibition |
PRB aesthetic standards merit |
evaluative | Only "a respectable mediocrity." | ||
1876-02-12 | Academy | Dudley Gallery, second notice | art | critical | Dudley landscapes figures animals |
PRB aesthetic standards | evaluative | |||
1876-02-26 | Academy | Pinwell Exhibition | art | critical | Pinwell Exhibition and memorial | PRB aesthetic standards quality |
evaluative | "Good qualities as a person, but not as a body of work." | ||
1876-03-11 | Academy | Blake exhibit at Burlington Club | art | critical | Blake exhibition Burlington Club |
classical aesthetic standards | evaluative, definitive | Swinburne's "Blake" referenced. | ||
1876-03-25 | Academy | Benjamin Robert Haydon memoir | art lit |
critical, polemical, historical | Haydon's life letters associations |
merit ill humor failures |
evaluative, definitive | Position piece: Brit valuation of art RA fails. |
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1876-03-01 | Macmillan's | How W.S. Bell sets the poetic standard since Byron | ✓ | literature | critical | Byronic Shelleyan poetics; poetics and art |
aesthetic value success |
evaluative, definitive | Ref. letters 31 May 75: right of remonstrance intent 23 Aug 75. |
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1876-04-01 | Academy | French Gallery | art | critical | Fr. Exhib.; Salon 1875 aesthetic imagery |
PRB aesthetic standards value |
evaluative | Strict school adherence, "homage to genius" | ||
1876-04-01 | Academy | WMR reviews Hake's "New Symbols" poetry collection | ✓ | literature | critical, educational | Hake "New Symbols" poetic imagery met. |
poetic theory aesthetic imagery |
evaluative, definitive | Reader authority imagination and invention, symbolism. |
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1876-04-08 | Academy | Society of British Artists, first notice | art | critical | landscapes exhibit |
PRB aesthetic standards merit |
evaluative | Some exhibitors dissuaded or hung inconspicuously. | ||
1876-04-08 | Academy | WMR refutes Hayden | literature | critical, polemical | WMR claims Hayden Casanova incorrect | Knowledge of Italian | rebuttal | ". . . absolute gibberish." | ||
1876-04-15 | Athenaeum | WMR rebuts Watts | art lit |
journalistic | 3 points re: Bailey's "Festus" | dates editions facts. |
rebuttal, definitive | |||
1876-04-15 | Academy | WMR corrects Scott's Blake catalogue | art lit |
critical | Scott Blake catalogue corrections |
firsthand knowledge | definitive | Lee | ||
1876-04-22 | Academy | French Gallery, second notice | art | critical | French Gallery other schools; modishness |
PRB aesthetics relative merit |
evaluative | "newfangled modishness" suited to "full pocketbooks, empty heads" | ||
1876-04-29 | Academy | Society of British Artists, second notice | art | critical | Soc. Brit. Art. figures landscapes water-c. |
PRB aesthetic standards merit |
evaluative | Intertextuality: Tennyson x 2. | ||
1876-05-06 | Academy | King Street Galleries exhibit | art | critical, polemical | dealer's collection British & Foreign art |
PRB aesthics relative merit |
evaluative, definitive | dealer's collection, artists' risk ordinary. |
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1876-05-13 | Academy | Royal Academy, second notice | ✓ | art | critical, journalistic | RA exhib. figures oriental |
PRB aesthetic standards relative merit |
evaluative | Extensive commentary: fault-finding, sub-standard. | |
1876-05-20 | Academy | Water-Colour Society, second notice | art | critical | water-colours landscapes |
PRB aesthetic standards relative merit |
evaluative | Carlyle, Tennyson exhibit an "agreeable mediocrity." |
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1876-05-27 | Academy | Royal Academy, third notice | ✓ | art | critical | domestic landscape portrait RA |
PRB aesthetic standards merit |
evaluative | 3 categories for portraits Millais criticism. |
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1876-06-01 | Academy | Goupil's "gallery" | art | critical, polemical | Goupil's commercialism | PRB aesthetic standards | evaluative, definitive | "Epoch of nouveaue riche" Fortuny, Gerome. |
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1876-06-03 | Academy | Royal Academy, fourth notice | ✓ | art | critical | Water-colour Animal Etch/Engr Sculpture |
PRB aesthetics comparative merit |
evaluative | PRB artists, sculpture = highlight of exhibition. | |
1876-06-10 | Academy | Date of Keats's death | literature | journalistic | Mrs. Shelley/Shelley "misdemeanant" | facts | definitive | Shelley vague, Mrs. Shelley mistaken WMR mislead. |
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1876-06-17 | Academy | Black-and-White Exhibition | art | critical | B&W drawings etching engraving |
PRB aesthetic standards | evaluative | Gilchrist-Blake-Dadd reference. | ||
1876-06-17 | Academy | The Mignot Collection | art | critical, memorial | Mignot memorial |
artistic merit relative accomplishment |
definitive, epideictic | American landscaper died at 39, "could have used more experience." | ||
1876-06-24 | Academy | Landseer's Indian Views and Sketches | art | critical, journalistic | art from India Geo. Landseer |
PRB aesthetic standards | evaluative, definitive | Distinguishes between prince of Wales' travel & exhib. | ||
1876-07-01 | Academy | Black-and-White Exhibition, second notice | art | critical | drawings etchings black-and-white |
PRB aesthetic standards | evaluative | |||
1876-07-22 | Academy | Oppermann biography of Sculptor Ernst Rietschel | art lit |
journalistic | review/present bio | translation accuracy merit |
definitive | |||
1876-10-28 | Examiner | WMR defends his Shelley edits from Forman | ✓ | literature | critical, historical, polemical | WMR Shelley edits Examiner Forman |
WMR editorial standards | rebuttal, definitive | 3 xref see also WMR reviews Forman 77.10.13. |
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1876-11-11 | Academy | The French Gallery | art | critical, polemical | French Gallery bad painting |
PRB aesthetic standard | evaluative | Works down to the "decidedly stupid" Long "Lame Ducks." |
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1876-11-18 | Academy | Pictures in the Haymarket | art | critical | Tooth McLean Coleman Millais |
PRB aesthetic standards relative merit |
evaluative | 170 works. | ||
1876-11-25 | Academy | Mr. Deschamps' Gallery, second notice | art | critical | Deschamps' figures landscapes |
PRB aesthetic standards | evaluative | |||
1876-12-02 | Academy | Society of British Artists, second notice | art | critical | landscapes figures still-lifes watercolors |
PRB aesthetic standards merit |
evaluative | "Carlyean countenance." | ||
1876-12-16 | Academy | The Water-Colour Society | art | critical | 15th Winter Exhib. Of Sketches & Studies | PRB aesthetic standards merit |
evaluative | ". . . a good deal to like, and not much to denounce." | ||
1876-12-23 | Academy | The Water-Colour Society, second notice | art | critical | single figs. landscape water-colours |
PRB aesthetic standards | evaluative | Mrs. Allingham one of few females who can do any art medium . | ||
1877-01-06 | Academy | The Water-Colour Institute | art | critical | water-colour figures landscapes |
PRB aesthetic standards | evaluative, definitive | WMR explains intellectual-dramatic link vs. Linton. | ||
1877-01-20 | Academy | WMR reviews Castelar's "Byron & Sketches" | literature | critical, historical | Castelar Byron sketch others |
English writing standard facts |
evaluative | Errors no translator could make this read English. |
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1877-02-10 | Academy | Dudley Gallery, first notice | art | critical | Dudley figures landscapes |
PRB aesthetic standards merit |
evaluative | |||
1877-02-24 | Academy | Dudley Gallery, second notice | art | critical | Dudley figures landscapes animals |
PRB aesthetic standards | definitive | Mostly listings, little analysis. | ||
1877-03-17 | Academy | Suffolk Street Gallery | art | critical | Suffolk Street landscape figures |
PRB aesthetic standards | evaluative | ". . . a photographic air of sudden, spontaneous truth." | ||
1877-03-24 | Academy | Suffolk Street Gallery, second notice | art | critical | Suffolk Street landscape figures |
PRB aesthetics relative merit |
evaluative | Hanging gripe. | ||
1877-04-07 | Academy | Continental Exhibition | art | critical, polemical | Continental Fortuny school |
PRB aesthetic standards | evaluative | Fortuny school "must always be distasteful . . ." | ||
1877-04-21 | Academy | Continental Exhibition, second notice | art | critical, polemical | Continental French German Spanish |
PRB aesthetic standards merit |
evaluative, definitive | "Repulsive, ugly" vogue caricaturing of Catholic clergy. | ||
1877-04-28 | Academy | Messrs. Goupil's Gallery | art | critical, polemical | foreign pictures Fortuny |
PRB aesthetic standards merit |
evaluative | Fortuny school "flawed" Goupils "speculators." |
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1877-05-05 | Academy | Grosvenor Gallery exhibition | art | critical, polemical | Grosvenor d?cor exhibit |
PRB aesthetic standards | evaluative, definitive | Extended physical description of gallery, hanging gripe. | ||
1877-05-12 | Academy | Royal Academy, first notice | ✓ | art | critical | RA exhibition; achievement relative merit |
RA/PRB standards | evaluative, definitive | 2nd part | |
1877-05-19 | Academy | Royal Academy, second notice | ✓ | art | critical | 1877 RA exhibition comparative merit |
PRB aesthetic standards | evaluative | RA hanging gripe Leighton & Millais " prime distinction of 77 RA." |
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1877-06-02 | Academy | Royal Academy, third notice | ✓ | art | critical | RA exhib. WMR advice to painters |
PRB aesthetic standards merit |
evaluative, definitive | RA, WMR advice to new painters RA "diploma painting" fault. |
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1877-06-09 | Academy | Exhibitions: Miss Thompson, M. Pichio | art | critical | Miss Thompson Pichio Hugo |
facts comparative merit achievement |
evaluative, definitive | Victor Hugo comment. | ||
1877-06-16 | Academy | Royal Academy, fourth notice | ✓ | art | critical | sculpture water-colours |
PRB aesthetic standards merit |
evaluative | Leighton's sculpture best Coleridge/Poe Marie Antoinette |
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1877-07-21 | Academy | WMR reviews Redgrave's Historical Catalogue | ✓ | art lit |
critical, polemical | Kensington exhib. Cat.; RA "henchmen" | concise accurate writing facts |
evaluative, definitive | "The cloven feet of the henchmen of the Royal Academy . . ." | |
1877-10-13 | Academy | WMR reviews Forman's "Shelley" | literature | critical, polemical | Forman Shelley WMR |
accurate authentic correct editing |
evaluative | Shelley, see also WMR defends his Shelley from Forman, 1876.10.28. | ||
1877-10-15 | Academy | WMR reviews Douglas's "Burns" | literature | critical | Burns notes vs. glossary 7 new works |
Clarity completeness accuracy |
evaluative | 7 new works glossary vs. notes WBS ref. |
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1877-11-03 | Academy | Pictures, British and Foreign, French Gallery | art | critical | Brit. & Foreign Wilkie |
PRB aesthetic standards merit |
evaluative | Shelley verse vs. imagery of Max. | ||
1877-11-24 | Academy | Society of British Artists | art | critical, polemical | Soc. Brit. Art. pictures & sketches |
PRB aesthetic standards merit |
evaluative, deliberative | Insight into Soc. membership artists "damaging" see also 78.04.06 |
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1877-12-01 | Academy | Dudley Gallery | art | critical | Dudley landscapes figures sculpture |
PRB aesthetic standards | evaluative | Dudley standard as mediocre consistently. | ||
1877-12-08 | Academy | Water-Colour Society | art | critical | water-colours figures landscapes |
PRB aesthetic standards | evaluative | Suggests 3 rather than 1 head model for Macbeth. | ||
1877-12-15 | Academy | Water-Colour Institute | art | critical | water-colours figures landscapes |
PRB aesthetic standards | evaluative | |||
1877-12-29 | Academy | Water Colour Society, second notice | art | critical | landscapes | PRB aesthetic standards | evaluative | Primacy of sentiment catalog. |
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1878-01-05 | Academy | Death of Gustave Courbet | art | historical | Courbet memorialized | historical perspective achievement |
epideictic | ". . . acted more to get rid of an obnoxious piece of bad art." | ||
1878-01-19 | Academy | WMR discounts Smith's Shelley biography | literature | critical, historical, polemical | Shelley bio. Smith Trelawney |
facts historical accounts |
evaluative | WMR cites 3 levels of error. | ||
1878-02-23 | Academy | Blake's Jerusalem, Bell-Scott's Blake etchings | art | critical | facsimile Jerusalem Bell-Scott's etchings |
authenticity effective publication |
evaluative, definitive | Facsimile & complications, Swinburne ref, see also 1876.03.11. | ||
1878-02-01 | University | WMR Shelley lecture, part 1 | literature | critical, historical, educational | Shelley's history events work |
historical & critical accuracy | definitive | Shelley: 2 part series, for uninformed, Rossetti Reminiscences 2:482 | ||
1878-03-09 | Academy | Dudley Gallery | art | critical | critique evaluation comparison |
artistic value authenticity truth |
evaluative, definitive | |||
1878-03-23 | Academy | Dudley gallery, second notice | art | critical | Dudley hanging Stillman |
PRB aesthetic standards | evaluative | Mrs. Stillman hanging gripe. |
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1878-03-01 | University | WMR Shelley lecture, part 2 | literature | historical, educational | biography history Shelley education |
facts history |
definitive | Rossetti Reminiscences 2:482 | ||
1878-04-06 | Academy | Soc. Brit. Art. New gallery/ RA & Grosvenor | ✓ | art | critical, polemical | new Conduit gallery RA Grosvenor |
PRB aesthetics | evaluative | See also Soc. Brit. Artists review 78.11.24 | |
1878-04-13 | Academy | Messrs. Goupil's Gallery | art | critical | Goupil continental pictures |
PRB aesthetic standards | evaluative | |||
1878-04-20 | Academy | Water-Colour Institute | art | critical | Water-Colour Institute birds landscapes |
PRB aesthetic standards merit |
evaluative | Linton/Cheyne | ||
1878-05-11 | Academy | Royal Academy, first notice | ✓ | art | critical, polemical | uninteresting bad RA exhibition |
PRB aesthetic standards | evaluative | ||
1878-05-18 | Academy | Grosvenor Gallery exhibition | art | critical, polemical | value effectiveness authenticity |
PRB aesthetic standards | evaluative, definitive | Aesthetic theory: large PRB/Cheyne contingent as exemplar. | ||
1878-05-25 | Academy | Royal Academy, second notice | ✓ | art | critical | quality comparison aesthetic accomplishment |
authenticity PRB principles |
evaluative, definitive | ||
1878-06-01 | Academy | Grosvenor Gallery, second notice | art | critical | princess landscape figures sculpture |
PRB aesthetics merit |
evaluative | Special assessment for Princess Louise. | ||
1878-06-08 | Academy | Sale of Shelley artifacts and items | literature | critical, historical | Shelley possessions artifacts sale |
facts historical accounts |
definitive | |||
1878-06-08 | Academy | Royal Academy, third notice | ✓ | art | critical | RA landscapes figures animals |
PRB aesthetic standards | evaluative | Millais predominates. | |
1878-06-15 | Academy | WMR reviews Trelawney's "Records of Shelley & Byron" | literature | critical | Trelawney Shelley Byron records |
accuracy readability facts |
evaluative, definitive | Byron relics mentioned, compares Hogg/Mrs. Shelley/Trelawney | ||
1878-06-22 | Academy | WMR reviews T. Moore's Prose, Verse Satire, Shelley | literature | critical, historical | literary enquirers accuracy literary value |
historical & contextual accuracy | evaluative | |||
1878-09-07 | Athenaeum | Correcting line from Dante pub. 8/17/78 | literature | critical, historical | accurate translation | language standards |
definitive | Responds to August 17, 1878 article. | ||
1880-05-29 | Athenaeum | Memorializing Seymour Kirkup | literature | historical | Dantesque literature expert obituary |
encomium | epideictic | Reminiscences 2: sofa, Trelawney Letters 3x. |
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1880-11-13 | Athenaeum | WMR critical dispute with Quilter | literature | polemical, critical | dispute correction challenge |
facts according to WMR | rebuttal, definitive | Also Nov MacMillan's: WMR re: DGR and Swinburne | ||
1880-11-01 | Macmillan's | WMR refutes Quilter/Quilter makes his point | literature | polemical | rebuttal critique disagreement feud |
facts according to WMR | rebuttal, definitive | Letters, Athenaeum Nov 13, 1880. | ||
1881-01-01 | Mag. of Art | WMR history of PRB movement | ✓ | art | historical, educational | PRB history first-person |
facts history |
definitive | PRB foundational, essential WMR history of PRB | |
1881-05-07 | Athenaeum | WMR original poem for daughter turning 5 | literature | commemoration | poetic theory | epideictic | original poem by WMR upon daughter reaching census age. | |||
1881-06-01 | Art Journal | Madox Brown's frescoes in Manchester | ✓ | art | critical, educational | frescos Manchester technique |
aesthetic success execution authenticity |
evaluative, definitive | Letters, Reminiscences 1&2, civic art, national artists. | |
1882-04-29 | Athenaeum | Clarify DGR exhibition plans | art | journalistic | clarify DGR exhibition plans | facts changes |
definitive | Letters: "leave path open for R.A." | ||
1882-05-06 | Athenaeum | Clarify term in Chaucer's "Eclympasteyre" | literature | critical | theory translation language derivative |
French | definitive | |||
1882-07-15 | Athenaeum | WMR Trelawney journal part 1 | literature | historical, educational | Trelawney and Shelley; WMR visits | journal entries | definitive | Shelley cremation WMR receives artifact. |
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1882-07-29 | Athenaeum | WMR Trelawney journal part 2 | literature | historical, educational | Trelawney and Shelley; WMR visits | journal entries | definitive | |||
1882-08-05 | Athenaeum | WMR Trelawney journal part 3 | literature | historical, educational | Trelawney and Shelley; WMR visits | journal entries | definitive | |||
1883-01-20 | Athenaeum | Correct error re: DGR "Found" in RA guide | art | critical, historical | RA guide error DGR "Found" |
facts according to WMR |
definitive, rebuttal | WMR says RA has wrong source. | ||
1884-03-10 | Athenaeum | Clarify copyright claim | literature | critical | Tibbs copyright claim re: WMR | historical accuracy first-person ref. |
definitive, rebuttal | |||
1884-05-01 | Art Journal | Notes on DGR & works, part 1 | ✓ | art | historical, critical, educational | DGR works context history achievement |
facts history |
definitive, evaluative | "Task falls to his brother . . ." | |
1884-06-01 | Art Journal | Notes on DGR & works, part 2 | ✓ | art | historical, critical, educational | DGR works context history achievement |
facts history |
definitive, evaluative | Debunks DGR myths. | |
1886-02-13 | Athenaeum | Shelley Society Mtg. notice & member solicitation | literature | journalistic, educational | Shelley Society news | facts news |
definitive, deliberative | Shelley: recruiting for Shelley Society. | ||
1886-07-01 | Art Journal | Notes on DGR & works, part 3 | art | critical, historical, educational | DGR works context history achievement |
facts history |
definitive, evaluative | Final installment deathbed. |
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1889-01-20 | Mag. of Art | Portraits of DGR, part 2 | art | critical, historical, educational | DGR portraits 1853-82 | historical context achievement |
definitive, evaluative | context, Carroll photography. |
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1889-01-30 | Mag. of Art | Portraits of DGR, part 3 | art | critical, historical, educational | DGR photos deathbed tributes |
historical context memorial |
definitive, evaluative | context, Carroll photography deathbed of DGR. |
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1889-01-01 | Mag. of Art | Portraits of DGR, part 1 | art | critical, historical, educational | DGR works context history achievement |
historical context memorial |
definitive, evaluative | Brotherly admiration and tribute. | ||
1889-04-01 | Hobby H. | Ford Madox Brown's paintings | ✓ | art | critical, educational | Brown PRB standards poetic effect image |
PRB standards aesthetic value |
definitive, evaluative | Brown as exemplar of PRB precepts in successful execution. | |
1890-01-20 | Mag. of Art | Portraits of Browning, part 2 | art lit |
historical, educational, critical | Browning bio. via history w/portraits | first-person recall portraits |
definitive | |||
1890-01-30 | Mag. of Art | Portraits of Browning, part 3 | art lit |
historical, educational, critical | Browning bio. via history w/portraits | first-person recall portraits |
definitive | |||
1890-01-01 | Mag. of Art | Portraits of Browning, part 1 | art lit |
historical, educational, critical | Browning bio. via history w/portraits | first-person recall portraits |
definitive | |||
1890-05-01 | Review | WMR comments for Moore's "Browning" | literature | historical | Browning history duality vision |
first-person recall | definitive | Rossetti validates and extends Moore's point on vision. | ||
1891-03-28 | Athenaeum | WMR discovers ref. to Blake in Galt ed. Book | literature | historical, critical, educational | Browning ref. in Galt that Gilchrest missed | text | definitive | Blake "art for its own sweet sake.". | ||
1892-12-24 | Academy | WMR rebuts Scott's claims re: DGR | art | historical, polemical | Scott allegations WMR refutation |
historical accuracy first-person ref. |
rebuttal, definitive | |||
1895-08-03 | Athenaeum | Rebut announced CR edition, announce gift book | literature | historical | incorrect Athenaeum ref; news | facts | rebuttal | Gift book edited by Olivia Rossetti. | ||
1895-11-16 | Athenaeum | Correct paper error re: DGR "Hand and Soul" | literature | historical | incorrect newspaper reference | facts history |
rebuttal | Story previously pub. in "The Germ" & The Fortnightly Review. | ||
1898-05-01 | Art Journal | WMR surveys a PRB collection | ✓ | art | critical, historical | PRB art collected; collector works |
facts | evaluative, definitive | Leatheart's collection, "largest undispersed PRB collection." | |
1900-12-01 | Athenaeum | WMR editorial error | art | critical, historical | DGR scraps; prev. pub; WMR error | facts discovery |
definitive | WMR pub. DGR scrap in Pall Mall Gazette as un-pub. in error | ||
1904-01-01 | Mag. of Art | Clarify Marillier's "Record of DGR" | ✓ | art | critical, historical, polemical | Marillier correction DGR |
facts history accuracy |
rebuttal, definitive | Multiple corrections to Marillier favorable review. |
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1904-05-14 | Athenaeum | WMR answer Symons query on Shelley reference | literature | historical | Shelley error; Browning-WMR emendation | Browning-WMR letter Shelley error |
definitive | Shelley: Tower of Famine, Shelley error, WMR-Browning correct | ||
1904-07-02 | Athenaeum | WMR errors re: Mrs. Ruskin | literature | critical, historical | New info debunks previous conversation | facts new information |
definitive | Previous conversations re: Mrs. Ruskin prove inaccurate. | ||
1905-04-15 | Athenaeum | WMR corrects attribution re: F.M. Brown & "Leaves" | art | critical, polemical | Incorrect attribution re: "Autumn Leaves" | personal knowledge family |
definitive | |||
1907-10-26 | Athenaeum | WMR rebuts Grierson re: Shelley edit | literature | critical, historical | WMR clarifies Shelley edit; bio details. | facts historical accounts |
rebuttal, definitive | Shelley edit. | ||
1909-01-23 | Athenaeum | Notice of British art & Ruskin memorial in Venice | art lit |
journalistic, educational | Venice Brit art exhibit; Ruskin memorial | facts new information |
definitive | |||
1909-06-01 | Bookman | WMR memorializes Swinburne | literature | critical, historical, educational | Swinburne memorialized | personal remembrance 50 years |
epideictic, definitive | One of 12 critics memorializing Swinburne. | ||
1909-10-01 | Bookman | WMR retrospective of Ruskin | art lit |
critical | WMR overview/retrospective re: Ruskin | Ruskin's work WMR appraisal |
definitive, evaluative | One of 14 artists and critics offering opinions in essay. |