Exhibition at The Foundling Museum curated by Lynda Nead
A major exhibtion focusing on the myth and reality of the ‘fallen woman’ in Victorian Britain, curated by Professor Lynda Nead in collaboration with the The Foundling Museum’s curatorial team.
This autumn, the The Foundling Museum will be hosting a major new exhibition The Fallen Woman exploring the myth and reality of the ‘fallen woman’ in Victorian Britain.
The exhibition has been curated by Professor Lynda Nead, Pevsner Chair of History of Art, in collaboration with the Foundling Museum's curatorial team. It will draw together the work of artists including Thomas Faed, Richard Redgrave, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and George Frederic Watts and also explore the petitions of women applying to the Foundling Hospital at the time.
The exhibition opens on 25 September. Full details can be found on the The Foundling Museum website.
Image: G F Watts, Found Drowned (detail), c 1848-1850 ©Watts Gallery