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    Victorian Imagery and Design: The Essential Reference
    Victorian Imagery and Design: The Essential Reference
    Victorian Imagery and Design: The Essential Reference
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    Victorian Imagery and Design: The Essential Reference

    By Carol Belanger Grafton

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    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateDec 14, 2015
    ISBN9780486809182
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      Victorian Imagery and Design - Carol Belanger Grafton

      VICTORIAN

      IMAGERY & DESIGN

      THE ESSENTIAL REFERENCE

      CAROL BELANGER GRAFTON

      DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC.

      MINEOLA NEW YORK

      The source of frontispiece and chapter opener images is

      William Morris wallpaper designs

      Copyright

      Copyright © 2015 by Dover Publications, Inc.

      All rights reserved.

      Bibliographical Note

      Victorian Imagery and Design: The Essential Reference, first published by Dover Publications, Inc., in 2015, is a new compilation of images reprinted from authoritative sources. For detailed source information see page 151.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Grafton, Carol Belanger, compiler.

      Victorian imagery and design : the essential reference / Carol Belanger Grafton.

      p. cm.

      eISBN-13: 978-0-486-80918-2

      1. Decoration and ornament—Victorian style—Themes, motives. I. Title.

      NK1378.G745 2015

      745.40941'09034—dc23

      2015029877

      Manufactured in the United States by RR Donnelley

      79984001 2015

      www.doverpublications.com

      INTRODUCTION

      Alexandrina Victoria, the daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, was born on May 24, 1819, and became Queen of England at the age of eighteen on June 20, 1837, following the death of her uncle. She reigned as Queen for sixty-three years and seven months, until her death on January 22, 1901. Partly, no doubt, because she ruled so long, the image that survives of Victoria is not of the lively young woman who was a talented artist and diarist who took a genuine interest in the international and domestic politics of her day. Her image, instead, is one of time standing still—the ancient, unhappy-looking Queen, wearing black as she always did following her husband Albert’s death to typhoid fever in 1861, the Queen who never smiled and whose expression seems never to change. Actually, the era to which she gave her name was one of great change in every sphere of human life. The changes that the Victorian era brought to the worlds of art, design, and graphic style and technique were no less dramatic than those that occurred in every other area, including politics, culture, industry, and warfare. Here, as elsewhere, the world that Queen Victoria departed in 1901, in the second year of the twentieth century, was very different from the world she entered in 1819, with Napoleon in captivity and the French Revolution a recent, living memory.

      Two great rivers of information flowed into Victoria’s world to create the Victorian style, one from around the world, civilized and not, and the

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