Michael Burr

part of the jonathan ross collection

Stereoviews

Art in ’60 – Your Likeness & A Shave 6D

Explore the work of Michael Burr with the following links which take you to a series of images and notes about each stereoview. These open in a new tab or window.

A comfortable size for freeviewing (parallel viewing) the images in the linked pdf documents is 125% or 150%. This can be adjusted at the top right of the document.

A number of outdoor scenes and series, including Crinoline Difficulties, Elopement, A greedy and lustful Monk, Courting Couples and The Rival Omnibuses.

Part 1

Numerous scenes of city street life featuring entertainers, drunks, fortune tellers, domestic servants and fashionable ladies, and scenes in and around Church.

Part 2

Indoor scenes of working class life, poverty, the Irish, rustic courtship etc., for the amusement of the middle classes (who Burr did satirise too). Also The Death of Chatterton and Tennyson’s May Queen to raise the tone a little.

Part 3

Scenes from middle class Victorian life, including courtship and marriage, parenthood and party games.

Part 4

Balls, parties and games. Lots of girls showing their legs. Nights at the Opera. An Irish beauty.

Part 5

The trials of new parenthood, Mrs Caudle’s Curtain Lectures and other bedroom scenes, Prayer, Pepper’s Ghost, Dreams.

Part 6

Country folk, pet animals, Victorian children, rustics, Little Red Riding Hood.

Part 7

More country folk, playing Rustic Music, serenading , flirting, courting and desporting themselves in the corn. Ending with some scenes in the local churchyard – Orphans and return of the Wanderer.

Part 8

Children at play, Relations between the Middle Classes and their staff which are not always proper, Going to the Ball.

Part 9

Love below Stairs, what servants get up to when their employers are out, No Followers Allowed, Cooks and Policemen, and some random bits of Victorian satire.

Part 10

Also, visit: https://stereosite.com/collecting/stereoviews/michael-burrs-favourite-model/

Stereoviews replicate the way we see the world by taking two views of a scene, one from the right eye position and another from the left. When these are mounted together and viewed in a stereoscope, the brain merges them into a 3-dimensional or ‘stereoscopic’ image.

The technique emerged in the 1850s, soon after the invention of photography, through the work of Charles Wheatstone and Sir David Brewster, and developed into a worldwide craze with thousands of practitioners.

Stereo photography has gone out of fashion several times over the past couple of centuries, only to be rediscovered by later generations. Most of the images on this site are by European photographers working in the 1850s and 60s.

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