Eighteenth Century Engravings and Visual History in Britain

<P>Extending the scholarly discussion of visual history, this book examines eighteenth-century engraved book illustrations in order to outline the genealogy of the modern visualisation of the past in Britain.</P><P>This study is based on a body of more than a hundred engraved historical plates designed in the second half of the eighteenth century in Britain and published in more than a dozen pictorial histories. Focusing on these previously unstudied engravings, this work contributes to the study of eighteenth-century visual culture and is informed by current interdisciplinary approaches at the intersection of visual and book studies. <EM>Eighteenth-Century Engravings and Visual History in Britain </EM>is about the urge to envision the past and about the establishment of the new relationship between visual media, visuality, and history in eighteenth-century Britain.</P><P>The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, British history, book studies, and visual culture.</P>