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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…

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

The Oriental Annual continued the tradition of including engravings and writings about far-flung locales around the British Empire that piqued the curiosity of their middle class readers. This type of voyeurism, though, fostered the continued idea…

In order to attract their readers, publishers paid exorbitant prices to “borrow” original paintings and have them rendered as engravings. A single portrait required anywhere between twenty and two hundred guineas for borrowing fees and up to two…

For this first volume, Ackermann used only one engraver, John Samuel Agar, to create both the steel plate frontispiece engraving and the monthly wood-cut engravings of Twelve Months that are the focus of this first volume. Though Rudolph Ackermann's…