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The lithographic poster slowly took time to emerge as a leading advertising technique, due to the process being historically slow and expensive. In the 1890s, we start to see this form of advertising become incredibly popular, particularly as French…

Described by the online database "The Illustrated London News: Historical Archive" as having been originally printed under the newspaper's "Politics and Parliament" section, this 1874 article details the passing of an Act of Parliament as an…

This letter is suspected to have been written by Jack the Ripper. However, during the 'Autumn of Terror,' hundreds of letters were sent to police and press which caused many problems within the city of Whitechapel. This letter is was different from…

Much of Hardy's oeuvre concerns the matter of marriage, and all of the complexities surrounding it; Though Hardy never explicitly mentions his own views on marriage within his works themselves, leaving his outlook to be implicitly discerned. However,…

This is a very simple illustration from "Life's Little Ironies." I thought this illustration was interesting due to its simplicity, and the fact that it only illustrates the characters and what they are standing on, and does not show any of the…

This is the first page of "On the Western Circuit" when it was published in a magazine. I thought this was very interesting because of the top mural and the ornamented "T" that begins the story. Much like Darby's item from earlier this week with the…

This is an image of the title page of the title page in the first edition of Hardy's "Life's Little Ironies," which is the collection of short stories that "On the Western Circuit" was originally published in. I thought this image was interesting…

The image is of the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy. This is one of the earliest known photographs of Italy being that it was taken in 1841 by Alexander John Ellis. The photograph was later used in a collection called the 'Italy Deguerreotyped'.…

This is an imagine of the Church of the Frari that appears in "Alicia's Diary". The description confirms the recount from Alicia in that the church itself is able to be gondola. The description in this piece of the inside matches that of Alicia's…

This is an image of the front-piece in the "Life's Little Ironies" volume called A View in "Melchester." This volume is a collection of stories by Thomas Hardy which have a setting in various places with fictional names, including Melchester, in…