We continue to highlight how images licensed from the Bridgeman archive were transformed into some of 2012’s most creative book covers. Which is your favourite?
Striding Dragon (stone with pigment), Chinese School, Five Dynasties (907-960) / Indianapolis Museum of Art, USA / Eleanor Evans Stout and Margaret Stout Gibbs Memorial Fund / in Memory of Wilbur D. Peat
Mr Chick, c.1920s (pen & ink with w/c on paper), Joseph Clayton (Kyd) Clarke (1856-1937) / Free Library of Philadelphia / Rare Book Department, Free Library of Philadelphia
Scotland For Ever! 1881 (oil on canvas), Lady Butler (Elizabeth Southerden Thompson) (1846-1933) / Leeds Museums and Galleries (Leeds Art Gallery) U.K
The crowned lion of England, Escott, Dan (1928-87) / Private Collection / © Look and Learn
Jean Sebastien Bach I (canvas), Rohner, Georges (1913-2000) / Private Collection / Giraudon
See more creative book covers from 2012 sampling Bridgeman images.