ABSTRACT
53Images of the Netherlands and the Dutch were displayed, printed, and shown in a great variety of media and media formats between 1800 and World War I. This chapter gives background information about the popular visual media that are analysed in the following chapters: illustrated magazines; travel guidebooks; promotional material for tourists; sets of prints, cartes de visite, and cabinet cards of people in local costume; catchpenny prints; perspective prints; advertising trade cards; stereoscopic photographs; magic lanterns and lantern slide sets; picture postcards; and films. The presentation of each medium starts with general information and describes its technologies. Through the concepts of mediality, affordances, and dispositif, each medium's specific role in the dissemination of knowledge is investigated. Every description concludes with popular cases of depicting the Netherlands and the Dutch.
