7 sentences with “illustrated”

Often these books were beautifully illustrated by monks and are called illuminated manuscripts - among the finest examples of medieval art.

The partisan political cartoon illustrated above ridicules Thomas Jefferson's Embargo Act of 1807, a measure that had a devastating effect on American commerce.

Arie illustrated my notes, filling page after page with faithful Braille depictions of seaweed, sponges, worms, jellyfish, shells, crabs and fish, all accurately labelled.

The depth of Federalist discontent is illustrated by the minutes of the Hartford Convention of December 1814, a meeting of twenty-six Federalists in Connecticut, at which some attendees called for New England to secede from the United States.

Steamships also illustrated the social and class distinctions of the pre-war era. While the decks carried precious cargo, the interior was adorned with ornate rooms. In these spaces, whites socialised in the ship's lounges and dining rooms while black slaves served them.

The bloodshed illustrated the level of hostility that had developed as a result of the occupation of Boston by British troops, the competition for scarce jobs between Bostonians and British soldiers stationed in the city, and the broader issue of Parliament's efforts to tax the colonies.

The nullification crisis illustrated the growing tensions in American democracy: an aggrieved minority of wealthy, elitist slaveholders opposing the will of the democratic majority; an emerging sectional divide between the South and the North over slavery; and a clash between those who believed in free trade and those who believed in protective tariffs to foster the nation's economic growth.