Pollution in British Landscape Painting.

Stephanie O’Rourke has published a piece for Art UK on the relationship between pollution, industrial resource extraction, and eighteenth-century British landscape painting. This open-access text is aimed at students as well as broader audiences who are interested in art and climate change.  

Image ID: John ‘Warwick’ Smith, Junction of Mona and Parys Mountain Copper Mines (1790). Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales.