Packed full of galleries of beautiful illustrations by Maxfield Parrish, Aubrey Beardsley, William Morris, Gustave Doré, Arthur Rackham and others with prints one can buy of any illustration,
Artsy Craftsy includes a sumptuous collection of Victorian Fairies illustrations. The site also has the illustrated
Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde, illustrations of cats in fairy tales,
Magic Cats, and a selection of
beautiful free
ecards as well.
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posted by nickyskye
on Dec 19, 2007 -
17 comments
The Database of Mid-Victorian Wood-engraved Illustration (Centre for Editorial and Intertextual Research, Cardiff University) hosts well over eight hundred images from Victorian texts; you can browse the site by iconographic themes and features (tools, religion, etc.) or conduct more specific searches by author, publisher, and the like. For more overviews of Victorian book illustration, visit Bob Speel's
nineteenth-century art website, which features a number of pages devoted to various topics in book illustration, and the
Victorian Web.
Illuminated Books features a small collection of digitized illustrated works, many of them Victorian; there's a larger collection at
Children's Books Online. The Victorian novelist we most closely associate with book illustration is Charles Dickens, and
David Perdue has brief biographical sketches of his various illustrators, with examples of their work. Famous illustrators with their own websites include
Sir John Tenniel,
Arthur Rackham, and
Randolph Caldecott. (Main link via VICTORIA.)
posted by thomas j wise
on Jun 29, 2007 -
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Aspects of the Victorian Book is a Sunday morning kind of site, a relaxed but vivid tour of 19th century British publishing that explores production techniques such as lithography, binding and illustration, and looks at the printed works of the period (including forms such as the inexpensive "Yellowbacks" and their cousins, the usually lurid "Penny Dreadfuls").
posted by taz
on Nov 17, 2002 -
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