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1835
 
    
Fox Talbot exposes the first photographic negatives, among them a view looking out through an oriel window in Lacock Abbey       
c. 1835
 
   
English artist Edward Lear begins a series of travels, sketching around the Mediterranean and in the Middle East      
Edward Lear Corfu 1848?
Cecil Higgins Art Gallery

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1838
 
    
J.M.W. Turner paints an icon of British art, The Fighting Téméraire       
Turner The Fighting Temeraire (detail) 1838
National Gallery, London

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1841
 
    
Fox Talbot patents the 'calotype', introducing the negative-positive process that becomes standard in photography       
1843
 
     
The statue of Nelson, by E.H. Baily, is placed on top of its column in Trafalgar Square        
1846
 
    
Edward Lear publishes his Book of Nonsense, consisting of limericks illustrated with his own cartoons       
1848
 
    
English caricaturist George Cruikshank publishes The Drunkard's Children in support of the developing Temperance movement       
George Cruikshank, c.1850
National Portrait Gallery, London

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1848
 
     
English art students Rossetti, Holman Hunt and Millais form the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood        
Holman Hunt Claudio and Isabella (detail)
Tate Britain

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1849
 
    
Scottish painter David Roberts completes publication of his 6-volume The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia       
Roberts Entrance to Petra 1839
Cecil Higgins Art Gallery

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1849
 
     
Dante Gabriel Rossetti depicts his sister Christina in The Girlhood of Mary Virgin        
Rossetti The Girlhood of Mary Virgin (detail)
Tate Britain

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