In or Out of their Place: The Migrant Poor in English Art, 1740–1900

• Published in: Rural history Vol. 24; no. 1; pp. 73 - 100
• Main Author: SNELL, K.D.M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.04.2013
• Subjects: Agrarian Societies; Art history; Art Works; Death; Eighteenth Century; Europe; Gypsies; Low income groups; Migrant workers; Migrants; Nineteenth Century; United Kingdom; England

This article considers how depictions of the migrant poor in English landscape art changed between 1740 and 1900. A painting by Edward Haytley (1744) is used to illustrate some prevailing themes and representations of the rural poor in the early eighteenth century, with the labouring poor being show...