DMVI | Database of Mid-Victorian Illustration

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Title:

The Old Church in a Storm

Source Text:

Robert Blair, 'The Old Church in a Storm' 1743 in English Sacred Poetry (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Routledge & Co., 1862), 158–59

Illustrator:

Samuel Read

Engraver:

Dalziel Brothers

Size:

114 mm x 152 mm / 4"16 x 5"31

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

ESP028

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Title:

The Only One:—The Air

Source Text:

Francis Quarles, 'The Only One' 1638 in English Sacred Poetry (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Routledge & Co., 1862), 70–72

Illustrator:

Harrison William Weir

Engraver:

Dalziel Brothers

Size:

102 mm x 58 mm / 4"1 x 2"9

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

ESP015

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Title:

The Only One:—The Earth

Source Text:

Francis Quarles, 'The Only One' 1638 in English Sacred Poetry (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Routledge & Co., 1862), 70–72

Illustrator:

Harrison William Weir

Engraver:

Dalziel Brothers

Size:

114 mm x 88 mm / 4"16 x 3"15

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

ESP014

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Title:

The Only One:—The Sea

Source Text:

Francis Quarles, 'The Only One' 1638 in English Sacred Poetry (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Routledge & Co., 1862), 70–72

Illustrator:

Harrison William Weir

Engraver:

Dalziel Brothers

Size:

102 mm x 58 mm / 4"1 x 2"9

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

ESP016

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Title:

The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold

Source Text:

John Keats, 'The Eve of St. Agnes' 1820 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 89–115

Illustrator:

Edward Henry Wehnert

Engraver:

Thomas Bolton

Size:

89 mm x 85 mm / 3"16 x 3"11

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP063

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Title:

The Painted Record

Source Text:

George Eliot, 'Romola' 1862 in Cornhill Magazine (Smith, Elder & Co., London: Smith, Elder & Co.), 6 (Dec 1862), 721–57

Illustrator:

Frederic Leighton

Engraver:

William James Linton

Size:

103 mm x 160 mm / 4"2 x 6"10

Genre:

Fiction [novel] / Miscellany [periodical]

DMVI Code:

ROM017

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Title:

The pair had but one inmate in their house

Source Text:

William Wordsworth, 'Michael: A Pastoral Poem' 1800 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 326–48

Illustrator:

Henry Warren

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

98 mm x 114 mm / 3"27 x 4"16

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP174

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Title:

The Parting of Ulysses

Source Text:

Alexander Pope [trans], 'The Parting of Ulysses' 1725 in Once a Week (Bradbury & Evans, London: Bradbury & Evans), 7 (6 Dec 1862), 658

Illustrator:

John Everett Millais

Engraver:

Joseph Swain

Size:

114 mm x 95 mm / 4"16 x 3"24

Genre:

Poetry / Miscellany [periodical]

DMVI Code:

OWP032

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Title:

The paths of glory lead but to the grave

Source Text:

Thomas Gray, 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' 1751 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 12–28

Illustrator:

George Housman Thomas

Engraver:

Horace Harral

Size:

98 mm x 105 mm / 3"27 x 4"4

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP009

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Title:

The Peasants' Fair

Source Text:

George Eliot, 'Romola' 1862 in Cornhill Magazine (Smith, Elder & Co., London: Smith, Elder & Co.), 6 (Sep 1862), 289–318

Illustrator:

Frederic Leighton

Engraver:

Joseph Swain

Size:

158 mm x 102 mm / 6"7 x 4"1

Genre:

Fiction [novel] / Miscellany [periodical]

DMVI Code:

ROM010

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Title:

The pedlar's song

Source Text:

William Shakespeare, 'The Pedlar's Song' 1564– 1616 in The Poets of the Elizabethan Age (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 33

Illustrator:

John Gilbert

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

89 mm x 76 mm / 3"16 x 3"0

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

PEA010

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Title:

The Pic-nic

Source Text:

Jack Easel, pseud. [i.e. Charles Locke Eastlake], 'A Holiday at 'The Painters' Rest'' 1862 in London Society (William Clowes, London: London Society), 2 (Oct 1862), 352–59

Illustrator:

Alfred W. Cooper

Engraver:

Dalziel Brothers

Size:

190 mm x 117 mm / 7"15 x 4"19

Genre:

Non-fiction [sketch] / Miscellany [periodical]

DMVI Code:

LSF041

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Title:

The Pilgrimage

Source Text:

George Herbert, 'The Pilgrimage' 1633 in English Sacred Poetry (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Routledge & Co., 1862), 86–87

Illustrator:

John Dawson Watson

Engraver:

Dalziel Brothers

Size:

85 mm x 112 mm / 3"11 x 4"13

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

ESP018

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Title:

The Pilot's boy, who now doth crazy go

Source Text:

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' 1798 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 215–61

Illustrator:

Edward Henry Wehnert

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

89 mm x 108 mm / 3"16 x 4"8

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP143

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Title:

The playful children just let loose from school

Source Text:

Oliver Goldsmith, 'The Deserted Village' 1770 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 29–60

Illustrator:

Thomas Webster

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

99 mm x 60 mm / 3"29 x 2"12

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP031

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Title:

The priest-like father reads the sacred page

Source Text:

Robert Burns, 'The Cotter's Saturday Night' 1786 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 61–71

Illustrator:

Charles West Cope

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

84 mm x 96 mm / 3"10 x 3"25

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP057

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Title:

The Prodigal Son [10]

Source Text:

Edward Dutton Cook, 'The Prodigal Son' 1862 in Once a Week (Bradbury & Evans, London: Bradbury & Evans), 6 (21 Jun 1862), 701–10

Illustrator:

Frederick Walker

Engraver:

Joseph Swain

Size:

127 mm x 102 mm / 5"0 x 4"1

Genre:

Fiction [novel] / Miscellany [periodical]

DMVI Code:

TPS010

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Title:

The Prodigal Son [11]

Source Text:

Edward Dutton Cook, 'The Prodigal Son' 1862 in Once a Week (Bradbury & Evans, London: Bradbury & Evans), 7 (28 Jun 1862), 1–6

Illustrator:

Frederick Walker

Engraver:

Joseph Swain

Size:

130 mm x 114 mm / 5"4 x 4"16

Genre:

Fiction [novel] / Miscellany [periodical]

DMVI Code:

TPS011

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Title:

The Prodigal Son [12]

Source Text:

Edward Dutton Cook, 'The Prodigal Son' 1862 in Once a Week (Bradbury & Evans, London: Bradbury & Evans), 7 (5 Jul 1862), 29–38

Illustrator:

Frederick Walker

Engraver:

Joseph Swain

Size:

127 mm x 102 mm / 5"0 x 4"1

Genre:

Fiction [novel] / Miscellany [periodical]

DMVI Code:

TPS012

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Title:

The Prodigal Son [13]

Source Text:

Edward Dutton Cook, 'The Prodigal Son' 1862 in Once a Week (Bradbury & Evans, London: Bradbury & Evans), 7 (12 Jul 1862), 57–64

Illustrator:

Frederick Walker

Engraver:

Joseph Swain

Size:

127 mm x 114 mm / 5"0 x 4"16

Genre:

Fiction [novel] / Miscellany [periodical]

DMVI Code:

TPS013