Women: A Pictorial Archive from Nineteenth-Century Sources

Lush allegorical ladies, Grecian maids and Victorian maidens, Indians, Japanese, dancers, housewives, courtesans; women dancing, smiling, working, weeping, flirting -- an unusually rich sourcebook of feminine poses and activities, costumes, clothing, everyday life, and much more. Images selected from rare issues of Leslie's Weekly, The London Illustrated News, The Graphic, and more. 488 illustrations.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B007EV0UFI
• ISBN13: 9780486237039
• Release Date: November 1978
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.0" x 12.0"

Customer Reviews

Stocked full of illustrations

This book is stuffed full of an assortment of black and white illustrations.

A beautiful collection

This is a lovely collection of old images of women in various poses and styles of dress. I am excited that these images are copyright free and I hope to be able to use them for my own creative projects. Thanks, Mom and Dad!

awesome

great images, lots of them large enough to scan great. including the famous face used by fornasetti in lots of his work!

Great resource for crafters

This is a great resource of images. It's very diverse in the type/age/ethnicity of the images of women. I would recommend it to any crafter/mixed media artist.

Women: A Pictorial Archive from Nineteenth Century Sources

I use the pictures in this book for collages. I love the vintage look of the pictures and find that there is a good variety of sizes and subject matter.

Great clarity!

Wonderful selection. Clear illustrations, easily reproduced for pixels, a little more complicated for vectors because the paper is ever so slightly porous, but it is nicely opaque. And the paper does not change!! My copy dates back and the paper is still white. Great job.