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                          New Lanark was previously owned by David dale and Richard Arkwright, who were Englishman already famous for industrializing cotton spinning south of the border. In 1786 David Dale took sole control and four mills in full operation. For his workforce he turned first to children. Out of a total workforce in 1793 of some 1,150, over 800 were children, many from the orphanages of Edinburgh and Glasgow. Their working day began at 6.00am and continued until 7.00pm. On 1 January 1800, Robert Owen took over the management of David Dale's cotton mills at New Lanark and put into practice the ideas that he had developed earlier in his life and his workers at New Lanark were made to adopt new living, working, sanitary, educational and other standards. New Lanark had a population of 2,000 people, 500 of whom were young children from the poorhouses and charities of Edinburgh and Glasgow. Over the f...

Giovanni Battista Piranesi Giovanni Battista Piranesi, born in 1720, was truly inspired by Ancient Roman architecture. Giovanni moved from Venice to Rome to continue his work in etchings, at the age of 20. Piranesi studied architecture, engineering and stage design. He was the son of a stonemason and builder, and first studied drawing with his uncle who was an engineer. Piranesi found in it an outlet for all his interests, from designing fantastic complexes of buildings that could exist only in dreams. Giovanni was considered one of the greatest printmakers of the eighteenth century. Piranesi also received a thorough background in perspective construction and stage design, he considered himself as an architect.The Round Tower from 'Carceri D'invenzione' (Imaginary Prisons), 1749–1750 captured Giovanni’s eye. These etchings were issued as a collection of fourteen, but he reworked the series significantly as a set of sixteen in 1761. The fourteen plates ...