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Illustrations

Pedagogical Uses/Notes

Call #

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

• 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