February 26, 2025
Jamie Clifford, WPAMC '25
The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London is a treasure trove of artifacts relating to the Royal Navy and British maritime history. While visiting the Nelson, Navy and Nation gallery, a group of three unusual objects caught my attention—Guy Head’s portrait of a wounded Horatio Nelson, a combined knife and fork used by Nelson, and a letter written shortly after his injury bemoaning his poor handwriting. This trio ...
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February 24, 2025
Or, On Soap: Advertising and Colonial Erasure at the Lady Lever Art Gallery
Gabrielle Clement, M.A. Art History '24
Thirty minutes down the River Mersey from Liverpool sits the all-inclusive model community of Port Sunlight Village. Founded in 1888 by “Soap King” William Hesketh Lever (a.k.a. Lord Leverhulme), Port Sunlight Village housed the factory workers, and their families, who manufactured Lever’s claim to fame: individually packaged ...
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February 19, 2025
Lauren Bradshaw, WPAMC '25
Unknown, Band of Lace, ca. 1640-1680. Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Photograph by author.The Victoria and Albert Museum in London, an intimidatingly vast institution, is home to a small and delicate band of 17th-century needle lace worked in human hair. It is a bit difficult to locate as it sits within a pull-out drawer underneath the glass-encased installation of needlework by Martha Edlin in the British Galleries. ...
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February 17, 2025
Steven Baltsas, WPAMC '25
Lady Jane Waller's tomb in the south transept of Bath Abbey. Photo by the author.
Bath Abbey’s walls are crammed with memorial plaques. The milky, pale marble contours are classical: perfect white figures feigning ancient sculpture. There are sumptuous swags, urns, and pudgy cherubs, most dating to the eighteenth century. However, a tomb of darker materials beckoned me closer; a tomb more impactful in ...
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