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United States from the mid-19th century to around 1915. These include the work of 132 artists, for which predominant sources were monthly and weekly periodicals featuring fiction with captioned narrative illustrations, including The Century magazine, Collier’s, Cosmopolitan, Cornhill magazine, The delineator, Everybody’s magazine, Good words, Harper’s monthly magazine, Harper’s weekly, The leisure hour, London society, McClure’s magazine, Scribner’s magazine and Scribner’s monthly.
Several illustrations come from mid-19th-century books such as those created by Myles Birket Foster for his Beauties of English landscape (London : George Routledge and Sons, 1874), by Thomas Creswick for Poems by Alfred Tennyson (London : E. Moxon & Co., 1866) and by John Dawson Watson for The pilgrim’s progress by John Bunyan (London : Routledge, Warne and Routledge, 1861).
Other sources were general-interest magazines and fashion magazines, including The bookman, Harper’s bazar, The illustrated London news, Life and Vanity fair, that contained sections featuring the artwork of illustrators. A small number of magazine covers in colour and some pages from U.S. newspapers are included The folder of illustrations by John Tenniel includes an issue of The art journal ([April], 1901, designated “The art annual”) consisting of “The life and works of Sir John Tenniel” by Cosmo Monkhouse.

File contains clippings of illustrations by Charles Dana Gibson (1867-1944) from Cosmopolitan and other magazines that published fiction with captioned illustrations; 3 covers for McClure's magazine from 1913 (March, April and June); clippings of illustrations from New York and Pittsburgh (Pa.) newspapers; and illustrations for Collier's, Harper's bazar (including the cartoon series "Senator Lambkin's daughter Mary"), Life and Toronto Star weekly. Arrangement, by box-folder: 6-9) captioned illustrations; 6-10) magazine covers and newspaper clippings; 6-11) other magazine illustrations.Among the books donated by Emily Elliott now in the library collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario Library and Archives is The education of Mr. Pipp by Charles Dana Gibson (New York: R.H. Russell, 1899).