The Factory Presents... Revealing the Prints, Drawings, Paintings, Photographs and Digital Art Collections

Guest post by Daniel Milford Cottam: Fancy some last minute inspiration for your Easter Bonnet? These six lithographs come from a series of eighteen of beautiful women in fantastical costumes representing various aspects of Paris. They were created in about 1910 by an artist signing himself simply as ‘Laviny’. We yet don’t know much about him, but he clearly had quite the...

  Guest post by Erika Lederman: ISABEL A. COWPER – First Female Official Photographer of the First Museum Photographic Service? With March being International Women’s Month, and Friday, 8 March, International Women’s Day, we here at the Factory thought it would be nice to highlight the work of an overlooked female artist.  With this mandate in mind, we were happy to...

  Hand-coloured lithograph by an unknown artist. French, 1850-1870. E.2877-1938 Guest post by Daniel Milford Cottam, continued from Part 1... Writing from the point of view of a fashion historian, the clothes of the cantinières and vivandières fascinate me. While popular imagery shows eighteenth and early nineteenth century cantinières dressed in feminised versions of military uniform,...

Guest post by Zoe Clayton A stereograph is composed of two pictures mounted next to each other, viewed with a set of lenses known as a stereoscope.  Taken around 7cm apart, roughly corresponding to the spacing of the eyes, the left picture represents what the left eye would see, and likewise for the right, so when observing the pictures through a stereoscopic viewer, the pair of photographs...