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The first page of the accompanying poem to the "Liverpool" engraving.

Contining in the tradition of this ekphrastic practice, the 1833 volume of Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap-Book includes the rare engraving of England at home interspersed between engravings and poems about British colonial holdings. Compare the scene in…

L.E.L.'s ekphrastic poetic rendering of the "Delhi" engraving is followed by a historical note from the author to contextualize this poem. This is an unusual practice in literary annuals and one that provides insight into the author's research and…

This literary annual specifically employed the practice of ekphrastic poetical renderings: the engraving was provided to the poet to create a poem focused on the image's contents. With the larger size, Fisher's and L.E.L. usher in a new kind of…

This frontispiece is a rare Baxter-type plate. The very popular and famout poet, Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L.E.L.) edited and wrote all of the poetical contents and historical footnotes for the 1831-1838 volumes. Though this illustrated title page…

Shoberl and Ackermann continue including engravings and stories in concert with the publication of Bengal Annual through 1830, as is seen with this engraving and the accompanying first-person non-fiction prose sketch of Calcutta (July 1828) by famed…

Before The Bengal Annual and The Oriental Annual became popular, Rudolph Ackermann was already engaging in a colonial voyerism through both the engravings and literature offered in this originating literary annual title. This engraving accompanies a…

Printed on India paper and tipped (glued) onto the opening page, this frontispiece engraving (drawn on stone and printed using lithography instead of steel plate engraving methods) opens the poetry, prose, and sheet music included in this luxuriously…

As a study of the natural habit, this savannah scene highlights the Indian Rhinoceros (instead of the double-horned African Rhinoceros). To see the intricacy of steel plate engravings and witness the artistry of an engraving, click on the image…