Thompson Library
Jack and Jan Creighton Special Collections Reading Room (105)
The history of book illustration is closely intertwined with the production of visual knowledge. From early modern texts on astronomy and the physical sciences to eighteenth-century studies of architecture and antiquities and nineteenth-century facsimiles and reproductions, the development and refinement of printmaking techniques brought the world continually into sharper focus. This event will highlight a variety of materials from RBML collections to explore the history and impact of book illustration as a means of knowledge production across the arts and sciences.
This Saturday Spotlight is curated by Department of English PhD student Eileen A. Horansky. Eileen has a background in rare book cataloging. Her research interests lie in the history of the material book in the early modern period as well as in the early print history of medieval texts, particularly relating to bibliographic history, textual transmission, and the conceptualization of authorship during the first decades of print in England.
