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The connections between sewers and Victorian art is less tenuous than one might
suppose. Martin actually published a
pamphlet on sewage disposal, and the Great Interceptory Sewers, built by
Bazalgette between 1851 and 1865 were works on Martin's sort of scale. And
it is surely a result of this clean-up that artists -- especially those from
abroad, such as Tissot, Whistler, and even
Monet -- became so charmed with the Thames in the late 19th Century.
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