Image Bank
The James Smith Noel Collection

 

 

Images contained in the Noel Collection image bank may be used without charge for non-commercial web sites on the condition that the sites or pages on which iamges appear contain a link back to the home page of the noel collection: http://jamessmithnoelcollection.org. Images may also be reproduced without charge in scholarly publications or in other printed material related to non-profit scholarly activities provided that such publications include a credit line acknowledging the Noel Collection as the source of the visual material. For all other purposes, please request permission to republish or redistribute images from the Noel Collection Curator, Robert C. Leitz III, at robert.leitz@lsus.edu.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE OF THE IMAGE BANK. Select a category of images by clicking on one of the links in the table below. The link will lead either to another menu of images (where you may again select an imagecategory) or directly to an image or an array of images. Upon arrival at the desired image, place the mouse pointer atop the selected picture and click the right mouse button. A menu will pop up. From this menu, select “save as,” then specify a folder and file name and, if required, a format, whereupon the image may be saved to a disk, drive, or memory device.

 

IMAGE CATEGORIES

Portraiture:

Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British portraits from The National Portrait Gallery of Illustrious and Eminent Personages of the Nineteenth Century (London: Fisher, Son, and Jackson, 1830–1834).

Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century portraits from Evert A. Duykinck, A Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women of Europe and America, with Biographies (New York: Johnson, Wilson, and Company, 1873)

Portraits of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century figures from The Letters of Horace Walpole, ed. Peter Cunningham (London: Richard Bentley, 1857)

Queen Victoria

Samuel Butler, engraved by William Hogarth for the 1726 edition of Hudibras

 

Landscape and Architecture:

Country houses from A Series of Picturesque Views of Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland (London, Edinburgh, and Dublin: William Mackenzie, 1880)

Views of eighteenth-century London from A Microcosm of London, or, London in Miniature (London: Ackermann, 1808–1811) 3 volumes [includes illustrations by Augustus Pugin and by Thomas Rowlandson and also includes the original explanatory text]

Watercolor landscapes from Phillippe Jacques de Loutherbourg, The Romantic and Picturesque Scenery of England and Wales (London, 1805)

Landscape, urban, and architectural views from from The Letters of Horace Walpole, ed. Peter Cunningham (London: Richard Bentley, 1857)

 

Geography and Travel:

Louis-Adrien Du Perron de Castera, engraving from Vesuvius from Histoire de Vesuve (Paris, 1741)

Illustrations from The New Bath Guide, editions of 1788 and 1807

Engravings from Thomas Rowlandson, Poetical Sketches of Scarborough (London, 1813)

 

Human and Animal Life and Behavior:

Plates from H. Alkin, Shakespeare’s Seven Ages of Man (London: 1824)

People at play and tutored animals, from Joseph Strutt, The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England (London: 1801)

Fashion plates from The Ladies’ Cabinet of Fashion, Music, and Romance, volume 6 (London: 1834)

Plates from The Matrimonial Ladder (London, 1825)

Monkeys, from Sir William Jardine, The Naturalist’s Library, volume 1 (“Mammalia”) (Edinburgh, 1843)

 

Graphic Suites and Graphics-Rich Works:

Plates from George Moutard and Thomas Rowlandson, Country Characters (London, 1799)

Plates from George Moutard and Thomas Rowlandson, Matrimonial Comforts (London, 1799)

Plates from Henry Alken, A Touch at the Fine Arts (London, 1824)

Engravings from George Cruikshank, Sunday in London (1833)

Plates from George and Robert Cruikshank, Comicalities (London, circa 1830)

Plates from George Cruikshank and William Combe, The lLfe of Napoleon in Fifteen Cantos by Dr. Syntax

Plates from Robert Cruikshank, The English Spy (London, 1825)

George Cruikshank, The Life of Sir John Falstaff (London, 1858)

Percy Cruikshank, Illustrations to William Cowper's Diverting History of John Gilpin

Plates from Thomas Onwhyn, Cupid and Crinoline (london, 1858)

 

Philosophy and Religion:

Illustrations from The Whole Duty of Man

 

Novelties and Bibliographical Curiosities:

Title page and frontispiece from Sir Thomas Burnet, A Second Tale of a Tub: Or, The History of Robert Powel the Puppet-Show-Man (London, 1715)

Frontispiece and title page, The American Jest Book (Harrisburgh, 1796)

Title Page, M. Beaumont, L'Enciclopedie Perruquiere (Paris, 1762)

 

Panoramas and Three-Dimensional Simulations:

Fores’ panoramic representation of Queen Victoria’s coronation

Panorama by C. M. Webber, Geology Familiarly Illustrated (London, 1859)

Nineteenth-century panoramic representation of the longest day in different latitudes and climates

Comitiva Regia (1879)

The Great Exhibition (1851)

Panorama of Switzerland as Viewed from the Summit of Mont Righi (early nineteenth-century)

Horace Mayhew, Guy Faux, A Squib (circa 1849)

Example of a scroll-style panorama dispensed from an ornamental tube

History of Punch: Amusing Alphabet (nineteenth century)

Peep Shows

 

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