Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive - Free Downloads
Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive - Free Downloads
If you're after Victorian Images (specifically Shakespeare) to use in some of your Art Journalling then visit the Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive which is an online open access resource that contains over 3000 illustrations taken from Victorian editions of Shakespeare’s plays.
The digitisation was initiated by Michael Michael John Goodman who received his PhD in English Literature from Cardiff University in 2017. His thesis, ‘Illustrating Shakespeare: Practice, Theory and the Digital Humanities’ explored how digital technology can be used to make sense of historical (specifically Victorian) illustrations of Shakespeare’s plays. (Sounds pretty deep for sure)!!.
The online archive site gives anyone access to 3,000 digitised line drawings from four major illustrated editions of Shakespeare’s Complete Works in the Victoria era.
Artists can use the illustrations in their own work and share on social media freely thanks to a Creative Commons license – and all the illustrations are free.
Each image has been tagged very carefully and there is an extensive search cloud to search the drawings by motif, category, or by type - such as tragedy, comedy, or history.
The digitisation was initiated by Michael Michael John Goodman who received his PhD in English Literature from Cardiff University in 2017. His thesis, ‘Illustrating Shakespeare: Practice, Theory and the Digital Humanities’ explored how digital technology can be used to make sense of historical (specifically Victorian) illustrations of Shakespeare’s plays. (Sounds pretty deep for sure)!!.
The online archive site gives anyone access to 3,000 digitised line drawings from four major illustrated editions of Shakespeare’s Complete Works in the Victoria era.
Artists can use the illustrations in their own work and share on social media freely thanks to a Creative Commons license – and all the illustrations are free.
Each image has been tagged very carefully and there is an extensive search cloud to search the drawings by motif, category, or by type - such as tragedy, comedy, or history.
Below are some of the few I pulled from the archives. Visit the Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive and you'll be sure to find something you like.
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| The Groat of Richard II Shakespeare |
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| King Henry VI Part III Tailpiece |
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| Cards, from originals of 1466 |
Til next time
Julie
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