Author: Julia Thomas
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821415913
Category : Illustration of books
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
The middle decades of the nineteenth century saw an unprecedented growth in the picture industry, with technological advances ensuring that images adorned the pages of books and the walls of Victorian homes.
Pictorial Victorians
Author: Julia Thomas
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821415913
Category : Illustration of books
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
The middle decades of the nineteenth century saw an unprecedented growth in the picture industry, with technological advances ensuring that images adorned the pages of books and the walls of Victorian homes.
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821415913
Category : Illustration of books
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
The middle decades of the nineteenth century saw an unprecedented growth in the picture industry, with technological advances ensuring that images adorned the pages of books and the walls of Victorian homes.
Victorian Fashions
Author: Carol Belanger Grafton
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486402215
Category : Design
Languages : ja
Pages : 132
Book Description
Panoramic display of evolving styles ranges from hoop-skirted gowns of the mid-1800s to turn-of-the-century fashions that produced diminished bustles and close-fitting skirts. "A superb resource." — History in Review.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486402215
Category : Design
Languages : ja
Pages : 132
Book Description
Panoramic display of evolving styles ranges from hoop-skirted gowns of the mid-1800s to turn-of-the-century fashions that produced diminished bustles and close-fitting skirts. "A superb resource." — History in Review.
Picture World
Author: Rachel Teukolsky
Publisher:
ISBN: 0198859732
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
Explores the ways in which new forms of visual culture, such as such as the illustrated newspaper, the cheap caricature cartoon, the affordable illustrated book, the portrait photograph, and the advertising poster, worked to shape key Victorian aesthetic concepts.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0198859732
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
Explores the ways in which new forms of visual culture, such as such as the illustrated newspaper, the cheap caricature cartoon, the affordable illustrated book, the portrait photograph, and the advertising poster, worked to shape key Victorian aesthetic concepts.
A Victorian Lady's Scrapbook
Author: Dover
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486482073
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
The origins of today's popular scrapbooking hobby extend back to the 19th century, when publishers found an enthusiastic market for their colorful chromolithographic images. This reproduction of an authentic scrapbook of 130 years ago reflects Victorian sensibilities and interests. A brief Introduction discusses the hobby's history and all of the images are included on a bonus CD-ROM. 347 images.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486482073
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
The origins of today's popular scrapbooking hobby extend back to the 19th century, when publishers found an enthusiastic market for their colorful chromolithographic images. This reproduction of an authentic scrapbook of 130 years ago reflects Victorian sensibilities and interests. A brief Introduction discusses the hobby's history and all of the images are included on a bonus CD-ROM. 347 images.
Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford
Author: Thomas Recchio
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754665731
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Tracing the publishing history of Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford from its initial 1851-53 serialization in Dickens's Household Words through its numerous editions and adaptations, Recchio focuses especially the text's deployment in support of ideas related to nation and national identity on both sides of the Atlantic. Making extensive use of primary materials, Recchio offers a convincing micro-history of the way English literature was positioned in England and the United States to support an Anglocentric cultural project.
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754665731
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Tracing the publishing history of Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford from its initial 1851-53 serialization in Dickens's Household Words through its numerous editions and adaptations, Recchio focuses especially the text's deployment in support of ideas related to nation and national identity on both sides of the Atlantic. Making extensive use of primary materials, Recchio offers a convincing micro-history of the way English literature was positioned in England and the United States to support an Anglocentric cultural project.
Victorian Allover Patterns for Artists and Designers
Author: Carol Belanger Grafton
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486264378
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
The intricacy, elegance, and charm of Victorian decorative art continue to attract a broad spectrum of contemporary artists, designers, and craftspeople. Now they can draw on this treasury of excellent royalty-free Victorian designs to add nineteenth-century ambiance to almost any project. The author has selected over 160 designs from a variety of periodicals, books, and catalogs from England, France, Germany, and America, including the Album de l'ornemaniste, L'Art pour toous, Foremschatz, Decorative Vorbilder, The Studio, Art-Journal, and Decoration. The motifs reproduced were taken from or intended for fabric, carpets, mosaics, lace, tapestries, metalwork, manuscripts, ceramics, stained glass, architectural details, paintings, and much else. Drawing on native European design tradition as well as the exoticism of the East, the patterns in this volume are predominantly florals and foliates, although there is also abundant abstract figuration, especially from Islamic sources. Textile, package, and graphic designers — any artist or craftsperson in search of authentic Victorian decorative design — will find these designs inspirational and exceptionally useful.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486264378
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
The intricacy, elegance, and charm of Victorian decorative art continue to attract a broad spectrum of contemporary artists, designers, and craftspeople. Now they can draw on this treasury of excellent royalty-free Victorian designs to add nineteenth-century ambiance to almost any project. The author has selected over 160 designs from a variety of periodicals, books, and catalogs from England, France, Germany, and America, including the Album de l'ornemaniste, L'Art pour toous, Foremschatz, Decorative Vorbilder, The Studio, Art-Journal, and Decoration. The motifs reproduced were taken from or intended for fabric, carpets, mosaics, lace, tapestries, metalwork, manuscripts, ceramics, stained glass, architectural details, paintings, and much else. Drawing on native European design tradition as well as the exoticism of the East, the patterns in this volume are predominantly florals and foliates, although there is also abundant abstract figuration, especially from Islamic sources. Textile, package, and graphic designers — any artist or craftsperson in search of authentic Victorian decorative design — will find these designs inspirational and exceptionally useful.
700 Victorian Ornamental Designs
Author: F. Knight
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486155749
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
This lavish collection of royalty-free engravings by the celebrated 19th-century artist F. Knight — reproduced directly from a rare original edition — contains elaborate wall murals with trompe-l’oeil effects; scenes of hunters, flanked by mythological figures; idealized damsels in rustic settings; and numerous other florid motifs.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486155749
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
This lavish collection of royalty-free engravings by the celebrated 19th-century artist F. Knight — reproduced directly from a rare original edition — contains elaborate wall murals with trompe-l’oeil effects; scenes of hunters, flanked by mythological figures; idealized damsels in rustic settings; and numerous other florid motifs.
Authentic Victorian Stencil Designs
Author: Carol Belanger Grafton
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486145794
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
124 authentic stencil patterns for ready use by today's artists, craftsmen, designers, decorators, and students.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486145794
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
124 authentic stencil patterns for ready use by today's artists, craftsmen, designers, decorators, and students.
Victorian Sourcebook of Medieval Decoration
Author: William Audsley
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 9780486268347
Category : Color decoration and ornament
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Meticulously reproduced motifs from rare 1882 edition, with informative introduction and notes on original plates. Diaper patterns, medallions for ornamental devices, pillars and arch moldings, bands and borders, floral and foliated designs, alphabets, illuminated initials, much more. Royalty-free designs ideal for visual inspiration or immediate practical use. Introduction. Notes.
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 9780486268347
Category : Color decoration and ornament
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Meticulously reproduced motifs from rare 1882 edition, with informative introduction and notes on original plates. Diaper patterns, medallions for ornamental devices, pillars and arch moldings, bands and borders, floral and foliated designs, alphabets, illuminated initials, much more. Royalty-free designs ideal for visual inspiration or immediate practical use. Introduction. Notes.
Victorian Foliage Designs
Author: James K. Colling
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780486427423
Category : Decoration and ornament
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Magnificent collection of rare illustrations, selected from Victorian artist's superb stylebook, depicts 300 black-and-white foliage designs. Based on painted motifs found in woven textiles, woodcarvings, iron- and stonework, the lovely images depict leaves from oak, maple, poppy, ivy, ferns, and thistle, as well as designs incorporating fruits, flowers, and animals.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780486427423
Category : Decoration and ornament
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Magnificent collection of rare illustrations, selected from Victorian artist's superb stylebook, depicts 300 black-and-white foliage designs. Based on painted motifs found in woven textiles, woodcarvings, iron- and stonework, the lovely images depict leaves from oak, maple, poppy, ivy, ferns, and thistle, as well as designs incorporating fruits, flowers, and animals.