Eighteenth-Century Engravings and Visual History in Britain

Isabelle Baudino (École normale supérieure de Lyon, France)

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English

Routledge
12 March 2025

Prints & printmaking; Painting & art manuals

Series: British Art: Histories and Interpretations since 1700

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 histories. 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. Eighteenth-Century Engravings and Visual History in Britain 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 history, book studies, and visual culture.

By: Isabelle Baudino (École normale supérieure de Lyon France)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 370g
ISBN: 9781032162416
ISBN 10: 1032162414
Series: British Art: Histories and Interpretations since 1700
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 12 March 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction Chapter 1. Picturing History Chapter 2. Reinventing the Past Chapter 3. The Historical Genre Chapter 4. Visual History as a New Language

Isabelle Baudino is Senior Lecturer at the École normale supérieure de Lyon, France.