Eighteenth-Century Engravings and Visual History in Britain

Extending the scholarly discussion of visual history, this book examines eighteenth-century engraved book illustrations in order to outline the genealogy of the modern visualisation of the past in Britain.

This study is based on a body of more than a hundred engraved historical plates designed in the second half of the eighteenth century in Britain and published in more than a dozen pictorial histories. Focusing on these previously unstudied engravings, this work contributes to the study of eighteenth-century visual culture and is informed by current interdisciplinary approaches at the intersection of visual and book studies. Eighteenth-Century Engravings and Visual History in Britain is about the urge to envision the past and about the establishment of the new relationship between visual media, visuality, and history in eighteenth-century Britain.

The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, British history, book studies, and visual culture.

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Eighteenth-Century Engravings and Visual History in Britain

Extending the scholarly discussion of visual history, this book examines eighteenth-century engraved book illustrations in order to outline the genealogy of the modern visualisation of the past in Britain.

This study is based on a body of more than a hundred engraved historical plates designed in the second half of the eighteenth century in Britain and published in more than a dozen pictorial histories. Focusing on these previously unstudied engravings, this work contributes to the study of eighteenth-century visual culture and is informed by current interdisciplinary approaches at the intersection of visual and book studies. Eighteenth-Century Engravings and Visual History in Britain is about the urge to envision the past and about the establishment of the new relationship between visual media, visuality, and history in eighteenth-century Britain.

The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, British history, book studies, and visual culture.

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Eighteenth-Century Engravings and Visual History in Britain

Eighteenth-Century Engravings and Visual History in Britain

by Isabelle Baudino
Eighteenth-Century Engravings and Visual History in Britain

Eighteenth-Century Engravings and Visual History in Britain

by Isabelle Baudino

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Extending the scholarly discussion of visual history, this book examines eighteenth-century engraved book illustrations in order to outline the genealogy of the modern visualisation of the past in Britain.

This study is based on a body of more than a hundred engraved historical plates designed in the second half of the eighteenth century in Britain and published in more than a dozen pictorial histories. Focusing on these previously unstudied engravings, this work contributes to the study of eighteenth-century visual culture and is informed by current interdisciplinary approaches at the intersection of visual and book studies. Eighteenth-Century Engravings and Visual History in Britain is about the urge to envision the past and about the establishment of the new relationship between visual media, visuality, and history in eighteenth-century Britain.

The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, British history, book studies, and visual culture.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781000843385
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 03/31/2023
Series: British Art: Histories and Interpretations since 1700
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 202
File size: 12 MB
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About the Author

Isabelle Baudino is Senior Lecturer at the École normale supérieure de Lyon, France.

Table of Contents

Introduction Chapter 1. Picturing History Chapter 2. Reinventing the Past Chapter 3. The Historical Genre Chapter 4. Visual History as a New Language

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