Reverse glass painting, 19th century, Victorian era, women with hats, romantic period

  

Depicting four women wearing hats. / Dimensions (support): 22 x 23.5 cm. Glass painting of four women in hats. Dimensions (work): 15.5 x 17 cm / Dimensions (support): 22 x 23.5 cm. The Victorian era (sometimes called the Victorian age) in the United Kingdom marked the peak of the British Industrial Revolution as well as the British Empire.

Although the Victorian era can refer to the years of Queen Victoria’s reign, from 1837 to 1901, historians generally place its beginning at the Reform Act of 1832. The Victorian era was preceded by the Georgian era and followed by the Edwardian era. Victorian literature followed that of the earlier Romantic era: while poetry had been predominant, the Victorian era favored the novel as a literary genre. Foundation of the Red Brick universities.