Illustration is imagery made to accompany a text, whether a book, a magazine, an advertisement or a scientific treatise, rather than to stand alone. The practice runs from woodcuts in early printed books through steel and wood engraving in nineteenth century periodicals to the illustrated book boom of roughly 1880 to 1920, when new photomechanical printing let artists work in fine line and wash and see it reproduced faithfully. Gustave Dore, Walter Crane, Aubrey Beardsley, Kate Greenaway and Randolph Caldecott all worked in this vein. A pre 1930 public domain archive under this heading holds mostly book plates, fairy tale and periodical illustration, and decorative title pages rather than paintings.
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Illustration is imagery made to accompany a text, whether a book, a magazine, an advertisement or a scientific treatise, rather than to stand alone. The practice runs from woodcuts in early printed books through steel and wood engraving in nineteenth century periodicals to the illustrated book boom of roughly 1880 to 1920, when new photomechanical printing let artists work in fine line and wash and see it reproduced faithfully. Gustave Dore, Walter Crane, Aubrey Beardsley, Kate Greenaway and Randolph Caldecott all worked in this vein. A pre 1930 public domain archive under this heading holds mostly book plates, fairy tale and periodical illustration, and decorative title pages rather than paintings.
The most represented artists here are Anonymous (6,633), Unknown artist (1,361), William Henry Walker (1,195).
By movement: Art Deco (29,771), Expressionism (18,823), Impressionism (13,585).
By orientation: 36,949 landscape, 82,841 portrait, 3,522 square.
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