The phrase "above illustration" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a visual representation or diagram that has been mentioned or shown earlier in the text.
Example: "As shown in the above illustration, the process involves several key steps that must be followed carefully."
Alternatives: "previous illustration" or "illustration above".
Above: Illustration from the Toca Hair Salon 2 app by Toca Boca.
As the above illustration of an abstract concept suggests, and as the editors of the ODO should recognise, giving examples, to quote Wittgenstein again, "is not an indirect means of explaining … For any general definition can be misunderstood too".
Note: the above illustration is not an accurate representation of this nightmare technology.
The rallying symbol for the Twitter movement is the above illustration, created by the eminently talented dregman.
From the above illustration, it is still unclear how we can differentiate "extraordinariness" from "out of expectation" as the semantic structure analysis does not provide further information about these two notions.
I began work on the above illustration in 1999 through the advice of my then agent.
From the above illustrations, it is clear that the amide (CO−NH) groups produce much higher melting points than do the ester (CO−O) groups, even when the overall structures of the polymers are otherwise identical.
From the above illustrations, an interesting question arises: What is the relationship between second-order cone and circular cone regarding the projection formula, the distance formula, the tangent cone and normal cone, and so on?
Above: An illustration of the Kepler spacecraft.
From the above numerical illustration, it is observed that for fixed (alpha), (beta), and (theta) as M increases, total profit also increases in both cases.
The comparative illustration, above, fits that second category.
