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How did Victorian artists depict the Famine?

The Famine took place several years after the invention of photography - and yet no photographs of the devastation have survived. In this short video, historian Emily Mark-Fizgerald explains how contemporary visual artists depicted the Famine - and how subjective those images were.

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How did Victorian artists depict the Famine?

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