Playing with Pictures

At my recent visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, I discovered a small, special exhibit entitled: Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage. The hobbies and artistic ventures that wealthy Victorian women did to fill their time has always amazed and interested me. Needlework, watercolour painting, and now photocollaging. The works in the exhibit present several works from the 1860s and 1870s by a handful of wealthy English women, including Alexandra, The Princess of Wales. The artistic detailing involved in placing the right photo in the  fantastical, often funny watercolour scenes is amazing.

Here are a few of my favourite pieces:

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