Victorian illustration

With a decidedly Victorian twist, Olex Oleole puts together images that don’t quite fit together. A phonograph emerges from a heart while what look like animals behinds are sliced off and held toge…

Assassin's Creed Syndicate | Victorian-Style Posters Depicting Injustice and Class Exploitation | Award-winning Illustration for Advertising | D&AD

Victorian Dancing Etiquette, illustrated by 19th century sources. By USA Today Bestselling Author Kristin Holt.

This is a socio-political cartoon, C.1860. The phrase, The Arsenic Waltz alludes to the use of arsenic in dresses and artificial flowers. The illustration appeared in a British humour magazine, a few months after a worker in the fashion industry died of arsenic poisoning. Arsenic was everywhere in Victorian Britain. Although it was known to be used as a murder weapon, the cheap, natural element was used in clothing, candles, curtains, and wallpaper. Because it dyed fabric bright green…

Selected images from a massive late 19th century tome entitled simply Magic, subtitled Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions, including Trick Photography, compiled and edited by Albert A. Hopkins.

Selected images from a massive late 19th century tome entitled simply Magic, subtitled Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions, including Trick Photography, compiled and edited by Albert A. Hopkins.

1809 Fashion Plate Because blogging is such a visual medium I will be including lots of period illustrations over the next year. Here are some of the sources. Period Illustrations from the Georgian Era One great resource for an idealized view of Jane Austen's England is the fashion periodical of the era, particularly Ackermann's Repository, a London magazine published from 1809 to 1829. Fashion plates, then and now, are exaggerations of style and life. Do note that these Georgian-era fashion…

Charles Dana Gibson (American illustrator, 1867-1944) 1901-1902 pen and ink on paper illustration for Life Publishing Co.; published in the artist's collection The Social Ladder (1902) See MCAD Library's catalog record for this book. Gibson, Charles Dana. The Gibson Book; a Collection of the Published Works of Charles Dana Gibson ... New York: C. Scribner’s Sons [etc.], 1906 intranet.mcad.edu/library

It was in the 19th century that book and magazine illustration began its golden age. Illustrations by artists like George Cruikshank (see his “’Monstre’ Balloon” above”) were so distinctive as to make their creators famous.

Selected images from a massive late 19th century tome entitled simply Magic, subtitled Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions, including Trick Photography, compiled and edited by Albert A. Hopkins.