Tag Archives: Art History
Research Paper Abstract
Update: I have changed my research paper. See the new abstract below. At the end of the semester I will be submitting a short research paper for the core course of my MSc programme. I have chosen a series of engravings for it to be based on. As the old idiom states, a picture is worth […]
National Archives Internship Introduction, briefly.
I just met with the gentle scholars at the National Archives Scotland, where I’ll be doing my internship. My task will involve transcribing paper catalogues of collections and individual works of art into an online database which will be searchable, including cross-references. Sounds fun! I will need to use discretion and my own judgement when […]
Interlude: A Perspective into Art History via Hogarth
This is a post about a brief presentation I did for the core class of my programme, 18th Century Cultural History: Historiography and Archival Methods. I was to interrogate a portrait from the 18th Century as an Art Historian. I chose a satirical portrait of the poet Charles Churchill; an etching by William Hogarth entitled The […]
The Tagalong Historian 