rouncival

Courtauld Institute, however, a briefly concurrent exhibition of Victorian drawings and watercolours in the collection there, honestly introduced as a miscellany, does exactly what it should - offers a survey from Victoria's accession to her death, from the repellent rouncival Neo-Classicism of William Etty to a glimpse of the Aesthetic Movement and, in Charles Conder's "voluptuous dreamland", the Decadence that it spawned.

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