Victorian Imagery and Design: The Essential Reference
eBook - ePub

Victorian Imagery and Design: The Essential Reference

  1. 160 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Victorian Imagery and Design: The Essential Reference

About this book

Richly detailed, authentic, and engrossing, this compendium draws upon Dover's archives to present a pictorial survey of the Victorian world. Sources include historical periodicals such as Harper's Weekly,The Illustrated London News, and Punch as well as printers' and trade catalogs, architectural graphics, and patterns for fabric and wall decoration by William Morris, Christopher Dresser, and other designers. Hundreds of color and black-and-white images offer glimpses of social history from the great book illustrators of the era as well as ordinary and extraordinary everyday objects, including displays of glassware, furniture, needlework, and stained glass windows from the famous Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851.
Detailed bibliographical information concerning every source ― including biographical details of each artist ― makes this collection a vital reference tool as well as a stunning compendium of Victorian graphic and pictorial art and illustration. Students of graphic art, typography, and illustration as well as graphic designers and advertising professionals will prize this remarkable resource.

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Yes, you can access Victorian Imagery and Design: The Essential Reference by Carol Belanger Grafton in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Design & European Art. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Topic
Design
Subtopic
European Art

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Introduction
  5. Contents
  6. Decorative Patterns & Ornament
  7. Decorative Initials & Typographic Ornament
  8. Fine Art & Illustration
  9. Architecture
  10. Victorian Objects & Design
  11. Faces of Victorian Society
  12. Fashion
  13. Printed Ephemera
  14. Index of Artists
  15. Source Information