The World of G. F. Watts
Mark Bills & David Webb
£12.50 (special exhibition price)
Paperback, 104 pages
Illustrated in full colour with 154 plates.
Published to coincide with the touring exhibition of the same name, organised by Watts Gallery, Compton, Victorian Artists in Photographs brings us a step closer to a distant age and offers us the opportunity to see the faces, homes and families of artists whose work is so popular. The painters of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, the eminent poets and authors of the day and of course George Frederic Watts and his circle are all included.
An invaluable resource to academics, representing a snap-shot of The Rob Dickins Collection of Victorian photographs now at Watts Gallery, it is also an enjoyable picture book, of beautiful, sometimes quirky but always illuminating photographs of the greatest names of the Victorian age.
