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In Britain, extra-illustration is frequently called grangerising or grangerisation, after James Granger whose seminal book Biographical History of England from Egbert the Great to the Revolution—published in 1769 without illustrations—quickly prompted a fashion for portrait-print collecting and the incorporation of prints and drawings into the printed text.
L'Illustration (French pronunciation: [lilystʁasjɔ̃]; 1843–1944) was a French illustrated weekly newspaper published in Paris. [1] It was founded by Édouard Charton with the first issue published on 4 March 1843, it became the first illustrated newspaper in France then, after 1906, the first international illustrated magazine; distributed in 150 countries.
One of the "Histoire de Paris" plaques, situated to the left of a shop window on the Rue Montorgueil Close-up of one of these panels. The "Histoire de Paris" plaques (sometimes called Starck Oars because of their shape and their designer, Philippe Starck) are information plaques scattered throughout the City of Paris in front of various Parisian monuments.
Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ iɲas izidɔʁ ʒeʁaʁ]; 13 September 1803 – 17 March 1847) was a prolific French illustrator and caricaturist who published under the pseudonym of Grandville ([ɡʁɑ̃vil] ⓘ), and numerous variations (e. g. Jean-Jacques Grandville, Jean Ignace Isidore Grandville) throughout his career.
First page of the Saint-Gervais church baptismal register for 1865.. The parish and civil registers in Paris are documents containing records that officially establish the lineage of individuals born, baptized, married, divorced, deceased, or buried in Paris, within its administratively variable boundaries over time.
La Petite Illustration was founded in 1913. [1] It was a newspaper supplement to L'Illustration [2] and published plays, [3] [4] novels and short stories often first publishing and containing illustrations. The headquarters of the magazine was in Paris. [5] The magazine has been noted that it published works on French Algeria. [6]
Le Monde illustré was established in 1857. [1] Many of the highly realistic prints published in the medium of wood-engraving were actually made from photographs (through intermediary drawings), at a time when photographic reproduction in print was not technically feasible until the late nineteenth century.
B. Babouse; George Barbier (illustrator) Henri Baron; Jacques Barraband; Marcel Bascoulard; Françoise Basseporte; Jean-François Batellier; Eugène Baudouin