For examples of indoor lighting in art and illustration see A History of Home Lighting. Below is a collection of art featuring outdoor lighting and hand-held lanterns. When I was looking for reference a while back it was hard to find, but I’ve since noticed lighting and lanterns everywhere.
I am out with lanterns Looking for myself
Emily Dickenson
1921 Postcard by The Gibson Art CompanyMabel Lucie Attwell – Peter PanWoman’s World Magazine June 1934 cover artLudwig Munthe (Norwegian, 1841 – 1896) Snowy Road with Figures By Lamplight, n.d.
MONET REFUSES THE OPERATION
a poem by Lisel Mueller (1924–2020)
Doctor, you say there are no haloes around the streetlights in Paris and what I see is an aberration caused by old age, an affliction.
Kyrian Kostandi, (Russian 1852 – 1921) Maundy Thursday in the North, 1904 lantern‘The Fairy Lantern’ 1937 Illustrated by Grace Jones From ‘The Story Wonder-Book’The cover of children’s novel Where The Red Fern Grows but with retrievers not coon hounds. The art is by Robert McGinnis.Ludwig Munthe (Norway 1841-1896) Snowy Road with figures in lamplight. 1891 or 92‘The Children’s Shakespeare’, told and chosen by Alice Spencer Hoffmann. Illustrated by Charles Folkard. J.M. Dent and Sons. 1911Uwe Hänstch – The Snow QueenJoseph Christian Leyendecker Medieval Merry Christmas, ca. 1926William Stewart MacGeorge (Scottish, 1861–1931). Halloween, ca. 1911. The children are carrying candle lanterns carved from root vegetablesRussell Sambrook (1891-1956), American illustrator. Union Carbide advertisingThe Hardy Boys The Flickering Torch Mystery 1943Adventure of Fairborough’s FarmThe Mystery of the Hidden House by Enid Blyton Five Finder Outers 6Illustration for Ladies’ Home Journal, 1905, by Harrison Fisher (1877-1934)A.G Sherwood – Jubilee Procession in a Cornish Village, 1897June 1921 The Ladies Home Journal Magazine cover artThe Lights of London, Cannon Street Station c.1924 Samuel Harry HancockCisley Mary Barker, English, 19363 Way Hurricane Lantern advertisement 1957Diogenes’ Deadly Lamp Baffling Mysteries September 1952Marie-Madeleine FRANC-NOHAIN [1878-1942] Alphabet In Pictures 1933 lanternLamplighter by Frank Godwin (1889-1959)Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) New York Street With Moon 19251972 The Taken GirlWincenty Trojanowski (Polish, 1859 – 1928) lightLuther Emerson Van Gorder – Japanese Lanterns (1861-1931)Charles Courtney Curran Lantern from 1904 magazine Blanco y negro by SanchaEugen OsswaldMaxfield Parrish, (1870 – 1966) The Lantern Bearers, 1908J.C. Leyendecker (1874-1951) for a 1937 edition of The Saturday Evening PostAKIRA, KATSUHIRO ÔTOMO (1988)1968 Lemon Kelly E.W. Kelly back coverVirgil Finlay Louis Wain (English, 1860-1939)
