Randolph Caldecott: Illustrating Victorian Life

Join one of West Cheshire Museums’ curators to learn more about this Chester-born artist. Best known as an illustrator of children’s books, Caldecott was a wide-ranging, varied artist, admired by Gauguin and Van Gogh. He illustrated novels and travel books, drew cartoons and caricatures, and exhibited sculpture, paintings and drawings. This talk will look at his life and work, asking whether the apparent nostalgia in his work was an escape from an increasingly industrialised world.