Pre-Raphaelitism, science and the arts in 'The Germ'

This article demonstrates for the first time how dense the references to science are within the Pre-Raphaelite periodical 'The Germ' (1850). By reading the essays from this magazine together, as they were first published, it is possible to see how thoroughly the Pre-Raphaelites theorised their artistic project in terms of a particular mid-Victorian ideal of science. At the same time, the magazine became a forum in which the question of how far the arts ought to take account of science could be debated. In this debate, the competing visions of Pre-Raphaelitism discussed in Holman Hunt’s later accounts of the movement can be seen emerging at a very early stage in its history.

November 2009: Government Documents and the Arts

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Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature and the Arts.

1829 (July - Dec.)

Illustrated natural history of the animal kingdon, being a systematic and popular description of the habits, structure, and classification of animals from the highest to the lowest forms, with their relation to agriculture, commerce, manufactures, and the arts.

Published in 1868 under title: Johnson's natural history, comprehensive, scientific and popular ...

Illustrated natural history of the animal kingdom, being a systematic and popular description of the habits, structure, and classification of animals from the highest to the lowest forms, with their relations to agriculture, commerce, manufactures, and the arts.

Vol. 1 has added t.-p., illustrated: The animal kingdom illustrated ...

Flora cestrica : an attempt to enumerate and describe the flowering and filicoid plants of Chester County, in the state of Pennsylvania : with brief notices of their properties, and uses, in medicine, domestic and rural economy, and the arts /

Bookplate of Herbert McLean Evans.

American medical botany, being a collection of the native medicinal plants of the United States, containing their botanical history and chemical analysis, and properties and uses in medicine, diet and the arts, with coloured engravings ...

Issued in 6 parts.

A new family herbal : or popular account of the natures and properties of the various plants used in medicine, diet and the arts /

Includes index.

A botanical arrangement of British plants : including the uses of each species in medicine, diet, rural economy and the arts. With an easy introduction to the study of botany, &c. &c. /

Vol. 3 has imprint: Printed by Swinney & Walker.

The New and complete American encyclopedia: or, Universal dictionary of arts and sciences; on an improved plan: in which the respective sciences are arranged into complete systems, and the arts digested into distinct treatises; also the detached parts of knowledge alphabetically arranged and copiously explained, according to the best authorities.

"From the Encyclopedia Perthensis, with improvements."

Memoirs of science and the arts, or, An abridgement of the transactions published by the principal learned and oeconomical societies established in Europe, Asia and America.

Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 15609.3, suppl.

Weekly review; devoted to the consideration of politics, of social and economic tendencies, of history, literature, and the arts.

Editors: F. Franklin, H. de W. Fuller.