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This portrait of Charlotte Brontë was completed in 1850 by English portraitist George Richmond. The portrait was engraved by J. C. Armytage for the first edition of Elizabeth Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Brontë and was widely reproduced thereafter.…

An oil painting of Isabella Stewart Gardner, done by John Singer Sargent in 1888, for a comission of $3,000. Gardner allegedly had Sargent render her face eight different times before she was satisfied. The painting remains in the Gothic Room of the…

Queen Victoria was married to Prince Albert on April 10, 1840. She is actually credited with popularizing the use of a white gown at weddings, as it was popular among higher classes but not with others at the time. The selection of white as the…

Victoria is crowned queen at the age of eighteen. The portrait of her is painted just six years into her reign. Although she is the focal point of the painting, Grant seems to focus the light on her collarbone which illuminates the youthfulness of…

The now rusted door to the dock which has been torn off from the from the sliding track. The power Plant uses this door to accept much needed deliveries of coal from carrier boats. The doorway now gives a constant view of the Hudson River.

This is an American patriotic song about the attack on Pearl Harbor that drew the United States into World War II. It was written by Frank Loesser and published as sheet music in 1942. The song is based on stories of a military chaplain that…

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,…

In the preface to James' first collection of ghost stories, he expresses his unmet desire to have had a greater amount of illustrations alongside his novel. The four that did make it to publication, none of which accompanied "The Mezzotint, "were…

This note appears in within the first few pages of Thomas Hardy's collection, A Changed Man and Other Tales. He says he has compiled a dozen of his "minor novels" into this collection, so that readers may be able to access his stories easier. Being…