The Foundling Museum, WSG’s kind host for this year’s seminar series, is putting on an exhibition that WSG followers can really get behind. It falls a little bit outside WSG’s time period, but it is about the nineteenth-century idea of the “Fallen Woman” and the real Victorian women who gave up their babies to the Foundling Hospital.
To complete the exhibition, the Foundling is seeking £23,000 from the public. It has an Art Happens fundraising page on the Art Fund website, where interested parties can donate, and learn more about the project. It is already 65% funded at the time of this blog post, which indicates the degree of interest in the project so far.
You can follow updates from @foundlingmuseum, through their #FallenWoman hashtag, and from @artfund #arthappens.
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