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Speed, John.
The Historie of Great Britaine under the Conquests of the Romans, Saxons, Danes, and Normans. London, 1623

 

(1) family tree (including Cuthbert)

  • 17th-century visual culture
  • Illustration of royal family tree, as a means to depict and explain relationships

 

942 Sp 32 h

Rheede, Henrick. Hortus Indicus Malabaricus. Amsterdam, 1678

  1. Coconuts



  2. Solitary Fishtail Palm



  3. Papaya

  • 17th-century visual culture
  • The pedagogical purposes of illustration
  • Illustration and the visual appeal of the exotic
  • Illustration providing information regarding botany, details of plant life in different phases of growth, flowering
  • Illustration providing information regarding early exploration, especially of India, Burma (powers of observation, objects being sought, observed)
  • Text providing information regarding early medicine, search for cures

 

58.954
R252h
Pt. 1

Diderot, Denis. L’Encyclopedie; Recueil de Planches sur les Sciences. Les Arts Liberaux at les Arts Mechaniques, avec leur explication.
Paris , 1762

  1. Plan for a Garden



  2. Silkworms and domestic harvesting of silk



  3. Beehives and domestic harvesting of honey
  • 18th-century visual culture
  • The pedagogical uses of illustration (especially here, given the volume of plates is to complement the main text) – to teach garden design, silk and honey production
  • Illustration and aesthetics
  • Illustration of the process of commodity production (note modes, how temporal sequence is shown)

 

034En19
PL.T.1

The Tyburn Chronicle, Or Villany Display’d (Vol. III), London 1768

 

 

  1. Villains whipping a man to death



  2. Villains breaking into the Custom House

  • 18th-century visual culture
  • Illustration as ideology, in depictions of criminal behavior
  • Illustration as marketing, sensationalism

KD370
.79
v.3

Voyages Aux Indes Orientales et la Chine. Paris, 1782

(1) Danse des Bayaderes

  • 18th-century visual culture
  • Illustration and the visual appeal of the exotic
  • Illustration and the images/expectations of the behavior of other peoples and cultures

DS506
.S7
1782
t.1

Boydell’s Graphic Illustrations of the Dramatic Works of Shakespeare. London, 1804

Merry Wives of Windsor, Act II, Scene 1 As You Like It, Act IV, Scene 3 Twelfth Night, Act I, Scene 5
Macbeth, Act I, Scene 3
Henry IV, Part 2, Act IV, Scene 4
Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene 1
Romeo and Juliet , Act I, Scene 5, and
Act IV Scene 5 (two versions)
  • 19th-century visual culture
  • Illustration as interpretation of text
  • Choice of scenes –- what artists choose to depict, and why
  • Illustration as marketing of artists and of Shakespeare (note that this is a volume of engravings, taken from exhibits of paintings based on Shakespeare’s works.
  • Notes: the depiction of Rosalind and Viola cross dressed as men in As You Like It and Twelfth Night; of the three witches in Macbeth; of Hal taking the crown in Henry IV Part 2

Dayton Coll. 822.33 77B 693 g

 

The Northern Traveler. New York , 1828

 

(1) frontispiece of Catskills Falls

  • 19th-century visual culture
  • Illustration as marketing
  • Representation of nature

F 106 .N6 1828

The Yellow Book

  1. The Mysterious Rose Garden



  2. The Repentance of Mrs. ----



  3. Portrait of Miss Winifred Emery

  • Illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley
  • Function of illustrations in anthology

AP 4
.Y4

Wilde, Oscar.
Salome

(1) frontispiece







  • Compare two versions of the frontispiece, from the edition published by John Lane at Bodley Head, and the edition by Three Sirens Press, noting editing of the nudes
  • Censorship
  • Illustration and cultural expectations
  • Illustration and marketing, audience
  • See Stewart Plein's Notes

Bacon Collection

Cabell, James Branch. Gallantry: An Eighteenth Century Dizain in Ten Comedies, with an Afterpiece.
New York , 1907

(1) Howard Pyle illustration: “The Bastille in not a healthy place”

  • Early 20th-century visual culture
  • Illustration as representation and interpretation of text
  • Relationship between graphic and title

PS 3505 .A153 G3 1907

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