Art and industry: Seven artists in search of an industrial revolution in Britain (1780–1830)

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Notes

1 In 1845 Friedrich Engels used the term ‘industrial revolution’ in The Condition of the Working Class in England. However this book was in German. An English version was published much later — 1887 in America and 1891 in Britain. By this time the use of the term Industrial Revolution in English had been familiar for many years. French writers used the term some time before Engels, there is an early example in a letter.

2 Klingender, Francis D, 1947. Art and the Industrial Revolution, and edited and revised by Elton, Arthur, 1968. London: Evelyn, Adams and Mackay. A ground-breaking exhibition with the same name was held at the Manchester Art Gallery in 1968.