Victorian Literature and Visual Culture

Panoramic Programmes and Views


Panorama of Spitzbergen (1819)


Description of a View of the City of Pompeii (1824) (zoomable)

Description of a View of the City of Mexico (1826)

Description of a View of the Continent of Boothia (1833)

Zoomable version of the Boothia pictorial key (1833)

Description of a View of the Falls of Niagara (1834)

Description of a View of the Island and Bay of Hong Kong (1843)


Description of a View of the Himalayan Mountains (1847)

Description of a View of Berlin (1854)




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  • Course Syllabus
  • Rogoff, Studying Visual Culture
  • Research Starting Points
  • Introduction to Victorian England
  • The Victorian Web
  • Arctic Spectacles Preface
  • Arctic Spectacles Chapter 1
  • Arctic Spectacles Chapter 2
  • Dickens, "Some Account of an Extraordinary Traveller"
  • Altick, "The Eidophusikon"
  • A Complete Galantee Lantern Show!
  • A Magic Lantern Life (film about Terry Borton)
  • Early Panorama Programmes
  • Introduction to "The First Panoramas"
  • The King and Queen visit the Panorama
  • Silent Films to Watch
  • Anne Friedberg, The Mobilized and Virtual Gaze
  • The Velaslavasay Panorama
  • The Crankie Factory
  • Restoring Daguerre's Diorama
  • The Bill Douglas Centre
  • The Magic Lantern Society
  • A selection of Phenakistoscopes
  • Benjamin, "A Short History of Photography"
  • Excerpt from "Slides: The History of Projected Photography"
  • The Johnstown Flood
  • Who's Who of Victorian Cinema
  • Romantics and Victorians (British Library)

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Russell Potter
Russell Potter is Professor of English at Rhode Island College. He speciality is the history of polar exploration (Arctic Spectacles, 2007), with a focus on the the lost 1845 Arctic expedition of Sir John Franklin; his 2016 book, Finding Franklin: The Untold Story of a 165-Year Search,details the long search for evidence of the expedition. In 2022, along with Peter Carney, Regina Koellner, and Mary Williamson, he has edited a volume containing all the known letters to and from Franklin's men: May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth: Letters of the Lost Franklin Arctic Expedition; the publisher is McGill-Queen's University Press.
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