Culture: A Revolution Is Ignored in Favour of Dull Landscapes ; Visual Arts F H Henshaw and Victorian Landscape Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery **

Birmingham Post › February 12, 2008

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In a way, this exhibition from the vaults of the Museum & Art Gallery is a perfect corollary to Hard Labour at the New Art Gallery.

Here are several generations of landscape painters spanning the 19th century in Birmingham, and what they drew and painted is considerably less interesting than what they didn't.

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Culture: A Revolution Is Ignored in Favour of Dull Landscapes ; Visual Arts F H Henshaw and Victorian Landscape Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery **

With one of the most momentous events in human history - the industrial revolution - going on under their noses, they turne...

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