In order to reframe the conventional bimedial (textual and pictorial) concept of illustration, this study examines illustrations and their textual and pictorial elements from the point of view of the medium of reproduction – which includes present-day digital photography as well as nineteenth-century xylography. The study investigates two nineteenth-century illustrated texts, the Swedish literary review Vår tid and the 1845 edition of Jacques Cazotte’s novel Le Diable amoureux. Both provide examples of how nineteenth-century xylography transmits the images it reproduces into new textual containers, be it illustrated journals or books. The argument made is that the concept of illustration, rather than denoting a bimedial object, is better understood as an ever-changing medial and semiotic function where the medium of reproduction enters between the image and text pairing in two particular ways. Firstly, by the way the traces after varying technologies of reproduction are manifested in the picture and take on semiotic functions in relation to textual and pictorial elements. Secondly, by the way the image, due to its medium of reproduction, is enabled to travel between different containers and thus to enter into new relationships with new textual elements. These two aspects constitute what I term the double difference of reproductive media. In developing this argument, the present study discusses multidirectional transfers of content between image and text, pictorial quotation as a type of metaphorical rather than a technological reproduction, and how the place assigned an ‘original’ is occupied by an anterior reproduction.

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重构插图的概念：图像，文本和生殖媒体的双重差异

为了重塑传统的插图（文字和图片）双概念，本研究从复制媒介的角度研究了插图及其文字和图片元素–包括当今的数字摄影以及19世纪xylography。这项研究调查了两个19世纪的插图文字，即瑞典文学评论Vårtid和1845年雅克·卡佐特（Jacques Cazotte）的小说《 Le Diable amoureux》。两者都提供了19世纪的字法学如何将其复制的图像传输到新的文本容器中的示例，无论是插图的期刊还是书籍。提出的论点是插图的概念，而不是表示双重对象，最好将其理解为不断变化的中间和符号功能，其中，再现介质以两种特定方式进入图像和文本配对之间。首先，顺便说一下，在各种复制技术之后的痕迹都在图片中表现出来，并具有与文字和图像元素有关的符号功能。其次，顺便说一下，由于图像的复制媒介，使得图像能够在不同的容器之间传播，从而与新的文本元素建立新的关系。这两个方面构成了我所说的生殖介质的双重差异。在提出这一论点时，本研究讨论了图像和文本之间内容的多方向转移，图形引文是一种隐喻而不是技术复制，