Reading Popular Prints 1790-1870Each chapter of this stimulating book collects a wide variety of images show the different ways that historical events can be represented. Metal and wood engravings, lithographs, woodcuts, etchings, watercolors, and drawings all reflect changing attitudes towards gender, politics, the family, education, and industrialization. This revised second edition has many new illustrations which further assist the interpretation of popular graphic images from the 18th and 19th centuries. |
Contents
Conflagration The burning of the Albion Mill | 27 |
dirt and disruption in the pursuit | 53 |
work leisure family | 101 |
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Albion Mill Anonymous wood engraved artists audience broadside caricature caricature tradition Caricaturists central Chambers brothers chapter codes Collings Collings's comic complex construct cottage cultural depiction described Dictionary discourses Dusty Bob early Victorian educated dustman eighteenth-century emblematic etched Family Economist fiction figure fire formulations gender genres genteel George George Cruikshank Gerald Massey graphic images Gustave Doré Hogarth to Cruikshank Houfe ideological Illustrated London industrial interest interpretation issues labour literature lithography mass middle class mode Moncrieff's motifs Museum narrative naturalistic novel oil painting Penny Magazine period Pickwick Pickwick Papers picturesque poem political popular prints possible potential printmaking published readers readership reading representation returning artisan Richard Doyle Rival Mag's Samuel Wyatt satirical scene single plate caricature social Songbook sophisticated stereotype Thomas Girtin tion tract literature trope urban vernacular versions Victorian Suicide Victorian Wood Engravers visual watercolours wood engraved illustration wood engraved vignette woodcut