This Inspiring Illustration post on photography is inspired by a wonderful acquisition added to our Photographic Collection this week of a Scottish family’s photographs from… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 44: the Family Album
I didn’t intend to write about the gradual at all for this post, I just happened to be looking at it one day when it… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 43: Faces, fauna, flora and St Francis: funny things lurking in a medieval music manuscript
This week’s selection for the ‘Inspiring Illustrations’ thread speaks for itself and needs very little introduction. We have selected the 1650 printing of Athanasius Kircher’s… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 42: Athanasius Kircher’s beautiful Musurgia Universalis (1650)
For our ‘April Fool’ post, we decided not to attempt the creation of a spoof medieval manuscript or late 14th century Scottish printed book, tempting… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 41: All is not as it seems…
This week’s Inspiring Illustrations post about photography is on the topic of the somewhat less noble yet very prolific format of the postcard. As a… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 40: The Photographic Postcard
This week sees the anniversary of the birth of both William Morris and Jessie M King, so it seems appropriate to celebrate by devoting the… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 39: Jessie M. King & William Morris’s “The Defence of Guenevere” (1904)
These vibrant illustrations of the Virgin Mary, Jesus Christ and angels come from an Ethiopian psalter purchased for Special Collections last summer. Ethiopia is one… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 38: Angels, Madonnas and Pilgrims — an Ethiopian treasure
This week’s inspiring illustrations are selected from the beautifully crafted presentation addresses from institutions and learned bodies world-wide which were sent to the University of… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 37: the Quincentenary scrolls
The medium of the Gelatin Silver Print was developed (no pun intended) in 1873 and was in general use by the 1880s. This type of… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 36: the Gelatin Silver Print
”He saw the city like an Istanbullu but painted it like a cleareyed Westerner.” -Orhan Pamuk, Memories of the City (2005) This week’s illustration post… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 35: Voyage pittoresque de Constantinople et des rives du Bosphore (1819)
This small sketchbook of around 100 watercolour sketches of St Andrews scenes represents just a tiny fraction of the artistic output of its creator, John… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 34: ‘10,000 paintings of St Andrews’ — John N. Bonthron’s sketchbook
Instead of focusing on a specific medium, this week’s Inspiring Illustrations post on photography is devoted to a well-known presentation format, the stereograph. More recently… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 33: 3D Photography — the Stereograph
