Thomas, Julia  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1995-5558
2025.
Illustration.
[Online].
Routledge.
Available at: https://routledgelearning.com/rhr-cultureliteratur...
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Abstract
This essay provides an overview of the development of illustration – the pictures that accompanied words on the printed page – into a dominant mode of representation in the nineteenth century. It was in this period that ‘illustration’ acquired its now standard meaning as an illustrative image that is conjoined with text. The essay identifies the key features of this art form and the technological changes in how illustrations were printed that played a part in their mass proliferation. Illustrations appeared across an extraordinarily diverse range of texts and printed forms, including books, magazines, and newspapers. Their ubiquity in nineteenth-century culture imbued them with the power to shape, as well as to document, the nineteenth-century world. Illustrations did not signify independently, however, and this essay draws attention to the complex relationship between pictures and words, and artists and authors, which characterises illustration in the nineteenth century.
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| Status: | Published |
| Schools: | Schools > English, Communication and Philosophy |
| Publisher: | Routledge |
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| Last Modified: | 02 Jul 2025 15:53 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/179043 |
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