Book Illustrators in Eighteenth Century England / Hanns Hammelmann and T.S.R. Boase, ed.

Identifier:REF.AM.1387

Dimensions:xiv, 120 p., [20] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.

Copyright dates:1975

Library of Congress Subject Headings:Illustration of books

Description:"The art of book illustration in eighteenth-century England has a special quality. Although no individual artist was as accomplished as the great French masters, a tradition of integrating pictures with the text emerged. The fact that this tradition was not pursued elsewhere, except in Venice, fascinated the late Hanns Hammelmann. He devoted years of patient research to unraveling the life-stories and works of the artists who specialized in book illustration...Here then is a biographical dictionary of 263 artists who practiced between 1700 and 1800, with lists and details of all the books that they respectively illustrated. Much of the material is new to the history of English art and literature and it throws a vivid and unexpected light on both." - front matter