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The Albert MemorialThe images for this website are drawn from the Albert Memorial, the monument to Albert, Prince Consort of Queen Victoria of England, situated in Kensington Gardens, London. As an opulent example of the Gothic Revival designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott—architect of so many imposing monuments to mid-Victorian culture, such as St. Pancras Railway Station and the Colonial Office in Whitehall—the Albert Memorial is a fitting emblem of the interests and work of Nineteenth Century Studies and the Nineteenth Century Studies Association. Although its representations risk identifying NCS and NCSA too strongly with Britain and with the middle of the century, the Memorial’s design strikingly embodies the interdisciplinary mission of the journal and the organization. Free-standing statuary groups representing the continents and the industrial arts and sciences surround the shrine containing Albert’s brightly gilded effigy; and, beneath the statue, the base is encircled by a frieze representing the fine arts.Our images are taken from the frieze, designed and sculpted by H. H. Armstead and J. Birnie Philip. Consisting of 169 figures, the frieze represents groups of musicians, poets, sculptors, painters, and architects. A fascinating lineup of nineteenth-century hero-worship in the arts, the sculpture provides an entertaining point of departure for interdisciplinary thinking about the nineteenth century. For more on the Albert Memorial, see the The Albert Memorial (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2001), a collection of essays edited by Chris Brooks on the occasion of the monument’s splendid restoration. Helpful websites include The Victorian Web, with its many resources and links to other sites dealing with the nineteenth-century; Eura, the company involved in restoration of the monument; and various sites by interested individuals, such as Bob Speel’s pages on Victorian art.
Materials Contained in This WebsiteCopyright to materials on this website is held by the Nineteenth Century Studies Association. Individuals may download, save, or print these materials for personal scholarly use without permission, and quote from them according to fair-use standards as defined by the Copyright Act of 1976 and by amendments to the Act. Otherwise, materials contained in the Nineteenth Century Studies website may not be downloaded, reproduced, or disseminated without permission. For permission, please contact the Editor, David Hanson (see Staff and Advisory Board).
Construction of the SiteThis website was designed and built by David Hanson in fulfilment of the requirements for Communications 417, “Web Design,” ably instructed by Dr. Joe Burns at Southeastern Louisiana University. Further materials were added by Lee Ann Alexander and Jamie May. Photographs of the Albert Memorial were taken by Robert Craig, who also supplied the initial inspiration of using the Memorial as the site’s emblem of interdisciplinarity. The photographs were transformed into graphic elements by Dustin Hughes and Joe Burns. We are indebted to Dustin Hughes also for the splendid execution of the typographical graphic elements.
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