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Portrait Miniatures from the Collection of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

February 26 – April 2, 1989

Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery

A collection of portrait miniatures from the 18th and 19th centuries. Portrait miniatures are usually executed in gouche and watercolour on wafer-thin pieces of ivory mounted in gold or silver frames. These tiny works, which are sometimes set into tortoise shell bonbonnières or snuffboxes, are rarely put on display because of their extreme fragility.

Primarily of French and English origin, the group includes likenesses of members of the ruling classes, such as Napolean and Josephine, and various literary figures, among them Madame de Staël and Voltaire.

William Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism

October 24 – November 14, 1988

University Centre

William Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism is taking place on the mezzanine of the University Centre, above the University Centre Gallery. While the actual collection of rare manuscripts and paintings will not be on display, it will be adequately represented by twenty-four large, full-colour poster panels. Early editions of relevant literary works from the period shall complement the posters.

The exhibition used Wordsworth as a focal point from which to expand upon the general themes of the English Romantic period, themes such as: Childhood; Revolution; the Discovery of Nature; Unity Entire; and Memory, Imagination and the Sublime. Clearly written commentaries accompany reproductions of paintings, watercolours, portraits, manuscripts and rare books of the artists and poets of the age. Among those included are John Constable, J.M.M. Turner, William Blake, Dorothy Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe and Mary Shelly, and John Keats.

The Victorian Portrait: Drawn from Life

E. W. Clark, Edward B. Paul, Acquired 1984
E. W. Clark, Edward B. Paul, Acquired 1984

January 8 – February 15, 1981

Maltwood Art Gallery

This exhibition featured Victorian portraiture in the university’s collection. The portraits were rendered as paintings, drawings, on medallions and sculpture.

Portraits from I. Uttahof, E. W. Clark, Peggy Arber, Maxwell Bates, P. M. Bates, John Behan, P. Birley, B. Rourke, Glen Howarth, Myfanwy Pavelic, Julia Robert, M. Solle, Peggy Walton, M. L. Day, and N. Jungman. UVic Special Collections contributed works from Myfanwy Pavelic, Ulbricht, W. S. Graham, R. Ciccimara, and Vitto Ceanci.