The Marie Duval Archive.
A new open access image database of the extant work of nineteenth-century cartoonist and stage performer Marie Duval, some 1400 drawings.
Simon Grennan undertook 67% (2/3) of the work. Roger Sabin and Julian Waite both undertook 16.5% (1/6) of the work each.
Simon Grennan was Principal Investigator for the 24 month Arts and Humanities Research Council granted project (AH/M000257/1) Marie Duval presents Ally Sloper: the female cartoonist and popular theatre in London 1869-85. Sabin and Waite were Co-Investigators. This grant funded the output.
Simon Grennan authored the supplementary published items, listed below, unless co-authored or cited, as indicated.
- Submitting institution
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University of Chester
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 32-20/603553
- Type
- T - Other
- DOI
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- Location
- https://www.marieduval.org/
- Brief description of type
- Research set and Database Multicomponent item
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month
- March
- Year
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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2
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Output
The output is The Marie Duval Archive (www.marieduval.org), a new open access image database of the known work of nineteenth-century cartoonist and stage performer Marie Duval, some 1400 drawings.
Research process
Marie Duval (1847–1890) was a London cartoonist and stage performer. She drew in cheap periodicals and albums, illustrating novels and creating a children’s book. Duval was unusual, as a woman periodicals artist. She had no arts training, instead utilising her stage experience as a source for her slapstick style. She drew the daily lives of Londoners. She pioneered many now-established comic strip techniques. Duval had been overlooked, distorting histories of the comic strip and skewing views of the cross-media Victorian leisure industries. Her work was inaccessible. No complete survey or comprehensive analysis of her work had been made. The research undertook a survey of her work, discovering overlooked work in archives internationally, which was photographed to create The Marie Duval Archive online. The Archive and the analysis of Duval’s work that it facilitated, is utilised and cited in a standard history of the comic strip (The Rebirth of the English Comic Strip 1847–1870 [2019]).
Research insights
The research identifies Duval as a radical practitioner in Victorian media. It reveals the unorthodox gendering of emerging media professions. It demonstrates historic cross-media synergies in visual culture. The research has revised the canonical account of comics and periodicals history.
Dissemination (see Supplementary information above)
The Archive substantiated an international programme of academic dissemination, including a co-authored academic book, six book chapters, five conference papers and two academic seminars. The Archive also substantiated an international programme of public dissemination, including an exhibition, touring to London, Berlin and New York; eight public lectures at literary festivals, a co-authored book and 14 international media commentaries.
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- Non-English
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