Illustration

To find scholarly articles on your topic, consider visiting the following databases: 

• Academic Search Complete Designed for academic institutions, this database is a leading resource for scholarly research. It supports high-level research in the key areas of academic study by providing journals, periodicals, reports, books, and more.
• Google Arts and Culture  Explore collections from around the world with Google Arts & Culture, created by Google Cultural Institute.
• Google Scholar provides a search of scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts, and articles.
• History Reference Center is the world's most comprehensive full-text history reference database designed for secondary schools, public libraries, junior/community colleges, and undergraduate research. The database features full text for more than 2,000 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books from leading history publishers.
• Humanities International Complete provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. Produced by Whitston Publishing (an imprint of EBSCO Publishing), this database includes all data from Humanities International Index (over 2,000 titles and 2 million records) plus unique full-text content, much of which is not found in other databases.
• JSTOR The archival journal collections include more than two thousand journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.

The following websites may be helpful for learning more about the history and background of illustration: 

• Illustration Age provides "inspiration, education, and resources to the illustration community in the form of interviews, feature articles, link directories."
• Illustration Chronicles "explores a history of illustration through the images, illustrators, and events of the past 175 years."
• Illustration History is an educational resource and archive that provides information about the history of illustration, artists, and genres.
• Writing About Art is an online text that discusses how art students can write about art to include history, style, iconographic, and visual descriptions.