Victorian age

·         Gothic revival

This is a style of architecture that started and existed in the   1740s, it was also called the Victorian Gothic style.

·       Eclectic style

This style existed more in the fine arts, this style emerged from different types of styles mixed together to form a new style.

·       Victorian aesthetic

·       Sentiment

This is a soft and kind of emotion more like a general thought, feeling or sense.

·       Ornate elaboration

-Artists

·    Louis Prang

He was born in Breslau 1824. He learnt to dye print calico in his german father’s shop. He also trained in the united states to become a lithographer in 1850.  Soon after becoming a lithographer and just after the civil war he began printing chromo lithographs.

·    Walter Crane

He was born in Liverpool on 15 August 1845. He was a designer of his time he specialised in children’s books. He worked on illustrations for a poem for a short while, after that he started studying drawing in his free time whilst working for a famous wood engraver named William James Linton.

·    Kate Greenway

Also called Catherine Kate Greenway was born in London on March 17^th 1846. While Kate was still a teen her father encouraged and supported her artistic talents. She was an poet and an artist, her inspiration came from her happy childhood.

·    Howard Pyle

He was also known as “the father of American illustrations”. He was born in Wilmington on the 5^th of March.  He Graduated in an art school in Philadelphia, after that he went to New York City to further develop his artistic talents.

·    Charles Dana

He was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts on 14^th September 1867 he is mostly known for his drawings of women from the first quarter of the twentieth century. In 1878 he began to draw as an apprentice for Goerge Post. His work also appeard in books.