1st Edition
Eighteenth-Century Engravings and Visual History in Britain
By Isabelle Baudino
Copyright 2023
202 Pages
10 Color & 30 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
202 Pages
10 Color & 30 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
202 Pages
10 Color & 30 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction
Chapter 1. Picturing history
Chapter 2. Reinventing the past
Chapter 3. The historical genre
Chapter 4. Visual history as a new language
Biography
Isabelle Baudino is Senior Lecturer at the École normale supérieure de Lyon, France.
