The Age of Industry

After reading all about ancient history and the middle ages and so on in, I was immediately fascinated with the industrial revolution when we got to that part of our studies at school. It was a time when a person could have learned pretty much all that was to know about current human understanding by graduating from a university and a time when this human knowledge was the source of miraculous advances that most of the world could hardly have thought of about a decade before. It was, however, also a time of great hardship for a lot of people as the demands of industry changed the way people lived and labored like never before. That last part is what I thought about when I drew this work.