Eighteenth-Century Engravings and Visual History in Britain Baudino Isabelle
Eighteenth-Century Engravings and Visual History in Britain Baudino Isabelle Extending the scholarly discussion of visual history, this book examines eighteenth-century engraved book illustrations in…
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Eighteenth-Century Engravings and Visual History in Britain Baudino Isabelle
Extending the scholarly discussion of visual history, this book examines eighteenth-century engraved book illustrations in order to outline the genealogy of the modern visualization 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. This book 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 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.