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1843
 
     
The statue of Nelson, by E.H. Baily, is placed on top of its column in Trafalgar Square        
1843
 
    
Mendelssohn's overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream, amplified now with incidental music, is greeted as a masterpiece at a performance of the play in Potsdam       
1846
 
    
Edward Lear publishes his Book of Nonsense, consisting of limericks illustrated with his own cartoons       
1846
 
    
Mendelssohn's oratorio Elijah has its premiere in England, in the city of Birmingham       
1848
 
    
English caricaturist George Cruikshank publishes The Drunkard's Children in support of the developing Temperance movement       
George Cruikshank, c.1850
National Portrait Gallery, London

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1848
 
    
Oh! Susannah is in the first published collection of popular songs by Stephen Collins Foster       
1848
 
     
English art students Rossetti, Holman Hunt and Millais form the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood        
Holman Hunt Claudio and Isabella (detail)
Tate Britain

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1849
 
    
Scottish painter David Roberts completes publication of his 6-volume The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia       
Roberts Entrance to Petra 1839
Cecil Higgins Art Gallery

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1849
 
   
In Vienna the younger Johann Strauss succeeds his father as the Waltz King      
1849
 
     
Dante Gabriel Rossetti depicts his sister Christina in The Girlhood of Mary Virgin        
Rossetti The Girlhood of Mary Virgin (detail)
Tate Britain

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