Eighteenth-Century Engravings and Visual History in Britain

by Isabelle Baudino

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032153644
• ISBN13: 9781032153643
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.9" x 9.7"