Reading Popular Prints 1790-1870

Reading Popular Prints 1790-1870
Author: Brian Maidment
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2001-12-07
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780719033711

Each chapter of this stimulating book collects a wide variety of images show the different ways that historical events can be represented. Metal and wood engravings, lithographs, woodcuts, etchings, watercolors, and drawings all reflect changing attitudes towards gender, politics, the family, education, and industrialization. This revised second edition has many new illustrations which further assist the interpretation of popular graphic images from the 18th and 19th centuries.