George Eliot Image Gallery
Links:
- George Eliot Portrait Gallery
- George Eliot Illustration Gallery
- George Eliot's England Gallery
- George Eliot's Social Network
Overview:
Access to images related to George Eliot has long been limited, even in the digital age. To address this, the George Eliot Archive team has gathered portraits of Eliot, illustrations of her works, images of her friends, and places in England connected to her life, all from out-of-print publications and public domain sources. These resources are freely available to support multidisciplinary inquiry. Please credit the George Eliot Archive when you use and share them.
George Eliot Portrait Gallery
Features all known portraits of George Eliot created during her lifetime, along with reproductions based on these original works—from casual sketches by amateur admirers to professional artworks made after multiple sittings. Metadata offers context on the artists, mediums, and dates of composition. An introductory essay explores the challenges and mysteries surrounding the provenance of several portraits.
George Eliot Social Network Gallery
Meet George Eliot's family members and her inner circle of friends and colleagues. This gallery provides an alternative search option to our interactive social network visualization. It includes brief biographical notes on over 125 individuals, focusing on their relationships with Eliot rather than their personal achievements, along with portraits when available.
George Eliot Illustration Gallery
Includes an ever-expanding collection of illustrations of George Eliot’s works. Currently, there are more than 350 images, most of them curated over many years from antique editions, some quite rare. Many of these illustrations will be unknown even to those familiar with the illustrated George Eliot's Works published by New York's Thomas Y. Crowell in 1894. Also collected in their entirety for the first time in 2019 are Sir Frederic Leighton’s commissioned illustrations for Romola.
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If you find images not included on this site or can help identify unnamed artists—whose names often don’t appear in the editions they illustrated—please let us know. To share information or corrections, contact Beverley Rilett at bdr0032@auburn.edu.