Ann Bermingham is a specialist in British art of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Her current research explores forms of early industrial architecture in Britain. She is the author of Landscape and Ideology: The English Rustic Tradition, 1760–1860 and Learning to Draw: Studies in the Cultural History of a Polite and Useful Art. She is the editor of Sensation and Sensibility: Viewing Gainsborough’s Cottage Door and, with John Brewer, The Consumption of Culture: Image, Object, Text, 1600–1800.