The panorama is primarily a visual medium, but a variety of print matter mediated its viewing; adverts, reviews, handbills and a descriptive programme accompanied by an annotated key to the canvas. The short accounts, programs, reviews, articles and lectures collected here are the primary historical sources left to us.
Panoramas, 17871900 Volume 2 Stable Panoramas in Britain, Part II,
Panoramas at Leicester Square and the Strand: Narrative Programmes
(continued) Description of a View of the Falls of Niagara (1834) 1
Description of a View of the Cemetery of Père la Chaise (1834) Description of
a View of the City of New York (1834) Description of a View of the Great
Temple of Karnak and the Surrounding City of Thebes (1835) Description of a
View of Mont Blanc, the Valley of Chamounix, and the Surrounding Mountains
(1837) Description of a View of Canton, the River Tigress; and the
Surrounding Country (1838) Description of a View of Rome, Ancient and Modern;
with the Surrounding Country (1839) Description of a View of the Holy City of
Benares, and the Sacred Ganges (1840) Description of a View of the City of
Jerusalem, and the Surrounding Country (1841) Description of a View of the
Battle of Waterloo (1842) Description of a View of the City of Cabul, the
Capital of Afghanistan, with the Surrounding Country (1842) Description of a
View of the Island and Bay of Hong Kong (1844) Description of a View of the
Ruins of the Temples of Baalbec (1844) Description of a View of Athens and
the Surrounding Country (1845) Description of a View of Constantinople (1846)
Description of a View of the Battle of Sobraon (1846) Description of a View
of the Himalaya Mountains (1847) Description of a View of the City of Cairo,
and the Surrounding Country (1847) Editorial Notes
General Editor: Laurie Garrison, Consulting Editor: Anne Anderson, Volume Editors: Volume 2 Sibylle Erle, Laurie Garrison, Phoebe Putnam
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