The Art Treasures Exhibition, Manchester, 1857.

The Magazine Antiques | June 1, 2001| | Copyright

A major concern of mid-Victorian Britain was the relationship between art and industry. One of the key moments in this debate, often overlooked, was the Art Treasures Exhibition held in Manchester in 1857. The posthumous publication of Francis Haskell's Epbemeral Museum last year (1) has made it clear that the issues raised by this display of fine art in Britain's industrial heartland (see Pl. V) deserve closer inspection.

The French social commentator Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) visited the great mill town of Manchester in 1835 and was appalled by what he ...

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