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Even if you are a hardcore Janeite, it’s likely difficult for you to separate your imaginative experience of Austen’s novels from the various film and television adaptations that have sprouted up in the last 20 years. Darcy just has to look like…
1809 Fashion Plate Because blogging is such a visual medium I will be including lots of period illustrations over the next year. Here are some of the sources. Period Illustrations from the Georgian Era One great resource for an idealized view of Jane Austen's England is the fashion periodical of the era, particularly Ackermann's Repository, a London magazine published from 1809 to 1829. Fashion plates, then and now, are exaggerations of style and life. Do note that these Georgian-era fashion plates usually feature elongated bodies, setting up fashion ideals real human beings can never meet. The Comforts of Bath by James Gillray (ca 1756-1815) Another exaggerated but slyly accurate source is the caricature. Jane lived in a golden era for cartoonists who poked fun at society and politics. Tours of Dr. Syntax by Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827) A Republican Beau By Isaac Cruikshank (1756-1811) The Cruickshank family's sense of humor had a harsher edge. Above a French Revolutionary. Period Illustrations from Jane Austen's Novels Willoughby saves Marianne by Charles-Abraham Chasselat (1782-1843) from Raison et Sensibilité, a Paris edition of 1828. Jane Austen's novels were not illustrated during her lifetime. The first illustrated editions are credited to French translations in 1828, followed by new English editions in 1833. Illustration by William Greatbatch and George Pickering for Pride and Prejudice from the 1833 English edition. Darcy and Lizzie in dress and hair fashion of the 1830s. Sense & Sensibility 1899, illustrated by Chris Hammond. By the '90s Jane Austen novels were a new craze as was the arts and crafts movement. Having lived through the age of the hoop skirt and the bustle, the illustrators looked back at Regency fashion with a touch of Victoriana and William Morris. Cupid and Emma by Chris Hammond (1860-1900) Ms. Hammond's drawings appeared in the late 1890s. Duets After Supper by C. E. Brock (1870-1938) Brothers Charles Edmund Brock and Henry Matthew Brock illustrated several books about 1900 in their distinctive styles. Each volume had numerous plates colored by nostalgia. "How do you like my gown?" by H.M. Brock (1875-1960) Reading Jane's Letters by Hugh Thomson (1860-1920) Hugh Thomson worked in the early 20th century. As we can see by the furniture, his illustrations were period revivals. Lizzie and Jane Bennet by Roberto Parada from Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Because copyright extends back ninety years to about 1920 I will not be using more creative and current illustrations from new editions of the novels or new novels. Period Illustrations from Early Biographies & Memoirs Steventon by Julia LeFroy drawn from her mother Anna Austen LeFroy's memories. About 1870 Jane's family began publishing recollections of her life. Illustrations of specific places in her world often originated in those family sources. Chawton House by Ellen G. Hill In the early 20th century sisters Constance and Ellen Hill toured those sites. Ellen painted and drew the buildings and landscape as they appeared a century later for Constance's 1923 book Jane Austen: Her Homes and Her Friends. Read more about the history of the novels' illustrations in a chapter by David Gilson "Later Publishing History, with Illustrations" in Janet Todd's Jane Austen in Context. Here's a preview: http://books.google.com/books?id=TVcNgW5uH5oC&pg=PA127&lpg=PA127&dq=illustration+george+pickering+austen&source=bl&ots=_dL9pTFvz5&sig=_cbj9_LzDHt9J-tWd4J0tSxoEQ4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Kec2U9LnHNOxsATNiIH4CQ&ved=0CHkQ6AEwDw#v=onepage&q=illustration%20george%20pickering%20austen&f=false Enough footnotes---Next Sunday the first block.
We’ve picked up 35 from over 1 million fantastic vintage images that are free to use and remix by anyone.
Original oil on paper and composited digitally. Professionally printed on high quality textured archival off-white paper. Ships globally from my home in Seattle, Washington.
1870-1938
Charles Edmund Brock and his brother Henry Matthew Brock illustrated Jane Austen’s books in the early years of the 20th century.
Book Mansfield Park Jane Austen . Edición ilustrada por Fernando Vicente y editada por Galaxia Gutemberg. Una edicion escepcional.
Images from 19th century editions of Jane Austen's novels have entered into the public domain. Thanks to The British Library, we get to see what artists thought Austen's characters looked like before Hollywood got to them. Here's a sampling from Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion.
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1810's fashion 1907 C.E. Brock Watercolor Illustration , Pride and Prejudice
Persuasion - Watercolor Illustrations by C.E. Brock
Images from 19th century editions of Jane Austen's novels have entered into the public domain. Thanks to The British Library, we get to see what artists thought Austen's characters looked like before Hollywood got to them. Here's a sampling from Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion.
From the desk of Laurel Ann Nattress: *throws confetti* Pride and Prejudice turns 211 today. Many Jane Austen fans are celebrating #PrideandPrejudiceDay online and at Jane Austen’s House Museum (th…
Image taken from: Title: "Mansfield Park" Author(s): Austen, Jane, 1775-1817, author [person] ; Thomson, Hugh, 1860-1920, illustrator [person] ; Dobson, Austin, 1840-1921, writer [person] British Library shelfmark: "Digital Store 012621.h.38" Page: 10 (scanned page number - not necessarily the actual page number in the publication) Place of publication: London (England) Date of publication: 1897 Publisher: Macmillan Type of resource: Monograph Language(s): English Physical description: xviii, 428 pages (8°) Literary form: Fiction Explore this item in the British Library’s catalogue: 000144558 (physical copy) and 014804321 (digitised copy) (numbers are British Library identifiers) Other links related to this image: - View this image as a scanned publication on the British Library’s online viewer (you can download the image, selected pages or the whole book) - Order a higher quality scanned version of this image from the British Library Other links related to this publication: - View all the illustrations found in this publication - View all the illustrations in publications from the same year (1897) - Download the Optical Character Recognised (OCR) derived text for this publication as JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) - Explore and experiment with the British Library’s digital collections The British Library community is able to flourish online thanks to freely available resources such as this. You can help support our mission to continue making our collection accessible to everyone, for research, inspiration and enjoyment, by donating on the British Library supporter webpage here. Thank you for supporting the British Library.
