Panoramas, 1787-1900 Vol 1

The panorama is primarily a visual medium, but a variety of print matter mediated its viewing; adverts, reviews, handbills and a descriptive programme accompanied by an annotated key to the canvas. The short accounts, programs, reviews, articles and lectures collected here are the primary historical sources left to us.

General Editor: Laurie Garrison, Consulting Editor: Anne Anderson, Volume Editors: Volume 1 Sibylle Erle, Laurie Garrison, Verity Hunt, Phoebe Putnam, Peter West

Panoramas, 1787-1900 Volume 1 Stable Panoramas in Britain, Part I, General Introduction, Introduction to Stable Panoramas in Britain, 1794-1881; Informational and Biographical Texts; 'Specification of the Patent Granted to Mr Robert Barker' (1794) Corner, The Panorama (Leicester Square) (1857) Panoramas at Leicester Square and the Strand: Short Accounts 'The Present Subject is a View of the Grand Fleet, Moored at Spithead' (c. 1793) A Short Account of Lord Nelson's Defeat of the French at the Nile (c. 1799) A View of Constantinople and the Surrounding Country (c. 1801) A View of Naples Including Vesuvius (c. 1806) Explanation of the Beautiful View of Messina, in Sicily (1811) Panoramas at Leicester Square and the Strand: Narrative Programmes An Explanation of the View of Rome, Taken fr om the Tower of the Capitol (c. 1802) A Short Account of the View of Lisbon (1812)A Short Description of the Island of Elba, and Town of Porto-Ferrajo (1815) A Description of the Defeat of the French Army, by the Allied Armies,in Front of Waterloo (1816) Description of Lord Exmouth's Attack upon Algiers (1818) Description of the View of Venice (1819) Description of a View of the North Coast of Spitzbergen (1819) Description of a View of the Ruins of Pompeii Description of a View of the Ruins of the City of Pompeii, and Surrounding Country (1824) Description of a Second View of the Ruins of Pompeii, and Surrounding Country (1824) Description of a View of the City of Edinburgh and Surrounding Country (1825) Description of a View of the City of Mexico, and Surrounding Country (1826) Description of a View of the City of St. Sebastian, and the Bay of Rio Janeiro (1828) Description of a View of the Town of Sydney, New South Wales; the Harbour of Port Jackson, and Surrounding Country (1829) Description of a View of the City of Calcutta (1830) Description of a View of Florence, and the Surrounding Country (1831)