Illustration in the Victorian Period: Great Britain and America

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General

• The Technologies of Nineteenth-Century Illustration: Woodblock Engraving, Steel Engraving, and Other Processes
• Victorian Illustrated Books as Essentially Victorian
• George Du Maurier's "The Illustration of Books from the Serious Artist's Point of View"
• Pictures and texts within Pictures in Victorian Painting and Illustration
• Germanic Illustration in mid-Victorian Britain
• The Birmingham School of Illustration
• Fantasy Illustration (homepage)
• Caricature (homepage)
• Caricatures in Vanity Fair by 'Spy' (Ward), 'Ape' (Pellegrini), and 'Pal' (de Paleologu)Social Commentary and Victorian Illustration: The Representation of Working Class Life, 1837–1880
• Sexuality and Gender in Victorian Illustration
• The Remains of the Day: Death and Dying in Victorian Illustration
• The Mistake of Going on Holiday: Travel, Tourism and Leisure in Early and Mid-Victorian Illustration
• Caldecott, Evans, and the Production of the ‘Toy Books’: A Significant Collaboration
• Landscapes
• Titles of Victorian Illustrated Books in the Victorian Web
• Extra Illustrations and Grangerising: A Dickensian Phenomenon
• The Doyles; A Talented Victorian Family of Artists and Writers
• Forrest Reid (1875–1947): Novelist and Collector
• Visualizing the Anglo-Zulu War in Illustration, Painting, Photography and Film
• A Selected Bibliography
• Reviews of Books about Book Illustration
• Related Web Resources

British Illustrators

Helen Paterson Allingham Thomas Allom Honor Appleton Edward Armitage Henry Hugh Armstead Edward Ardizzone Fred Barnard Robert Barnes Alfred Walter Bayes Aubrey Beardsley Robert Anning Bell Charles Henry Bennett Thomas Bewick Jemima Blackburn Edward Blore William Henry Boucher E. D. Brinton Ernest Borough-Johnson Georgina Bowers Frank Brangwyn Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale W. E. F. Britten Charles Edmund Brock H. M. Brock Ford Madox Brown Hablot K. Browne (Phiz) Alfred Bryan Edward Burne-Jones W. P. Burton William Shakespeare Burton Robert William Buss Randolph Caldecott Lewis Carroll George Cattermole Harry Clarke J. Clayton Clarke ("Kyd") John Collier Charles Allston Collins William Cubitt Cooke Alfred William Cooper Harold Copping Frank Cadogan Cowper Walter Crane Thomas Creswick Alfred Crowquill (aka The Forrester Brothers) George Cruikshank Richard Dadd Edward and Thomas Dalziel William A. Delamotte Margaret Rebecca Dickinson A. A. Dixon Gustave Doré Charles Altamont Doyle Henry Edward Doyle James Doyle John Doyle Richard "Dicky" Doyle Herbert J. Draper Helen Dufferin, née Sheridan, formerly Blackwood Edmund Dulac George du Maurier Marie Duval Mary Ellen Edwards Lionel Grimston Fawkes H. Granville Fell Luke Fildes Henry Justice Ford Myles Birket Foster John Franklin

F. A. Fraser Harry French Arthur Burdett Frost Harry Furniss W. Biscombe Gardner Arthur Gaskin Georgie Gaskin John Gilbert W. S. Gilbert Warwick Goble Jules A. Goodman Paul Gray Charles Green Maurice Greiffenhagen Kate Greenaway F. L. Griggs Ernest Griset William H. C. Groome Weedon Grossmith Althea Gyles Sydney P. Hall Christiana Mary Demain "Chris" Hammond James Duffield Harding Paul Hardy Archibald Standish Hartrick William Hatherell W. J. Hennessey Sir Hubert Von Herkomer Henry Holiday Arthur Hopkins J. C. Horsley Arthur Boyd Houghton Laurence Housman Arthur Hughes Edward Hughes William Holman Hunt Edward Killingworth Johnson Charles Keene Jessie M. King Charles Kingsley John Lockwood Kipling Rudyard Kipling F. G. Kitton R. Knight J. Buxton Knight Matthew James Lawless Francis Wilfred Lawson John Leech Frederic Lord Leighton John Leighton R. P. Leitch Celia Anna Levetus William James Linton Robert Walker Macbeth Henry Macbeth-Raeburn William Brown Macdougall Daniel Maclise J. Mahoney Thomas Robert Macquoid Agnes P. Manley H. Stacy Marks Frederick Godwin Mason Phil May Thomas Maybank Kenny Meadows Sir John Everett Millais Matthew (Matt) Somerville Morgan A. Morrow Thomas Morten William Mulready Edmund Hort New William Newman

Thomas Henry Nicholson John William North Zoffany Oldfield Thomas Onwhyn Sidney Paget Walter Paget Frederic W. Pailthorpe Samuel Palmer Alfred Parsons Bernard Partridge James Abbott Pasquier Joseph Noel Paton Waller H. Paton Charles Pears Joseph Pennell John Pettie Frederick Richard Pickersgill Harold Hume Piffard George Pinwell Beatrix Potter Paolo Priolo R.T. Pritchett John Proctor Arthur Rackham Herbert Railton John McLaren Ralston William Ralston Leonard Raven-Hill Charles De Sousy Ricketts Charles Robinson W. Heath Robinson Dante Gabriel Rossetti Florence May Rudland George Augustus Sala Edward Linley Sambourne Frederick Sandys David Scott William Bell Scott Henry Courtney Selous Robert Seymour John Liston Byam Shaw Frederick Shields Sidney Sime Helen M. Sinclair Bernard Sleigh John Sliegh (or Sleigh) William Small Rebecca Solomon Simeon Solomon Clarkson Stanfield Thomas Stothard Frank Stone Marcus Stone William Strang Edmund J. Sullivan George Sumner Joseph Syddall Joseph Swain John Tenniel W. M. Thackeray George Housman Thomas J. Gordon Thomson Hugh Thomson Ernest Treglown W. R. Tymms Frederic Villiers Frederick Walker Leslie Ward (the caricaturist, "Spy") John Dawson Watson G. F. Watts Daniel A. Wehrschmidt Harrison Weir Edward Henry Wehnert J. Wolf

American Illustrators of British works

Edwin Austin Abbey Clara M. Burd Felix O. C. Darley E. Duncan Harry C. Edwards Sol Eytinge, Jr. A. B. Frost Winslow Homer William Jewett John McLenan Willy Pogány Thomas Nast Charles S. Reinhart William Sharp (Leon Schleifer) William Ludlow Sheppard John French Sloan James MacNeill Whistler

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