- Museum number
- 1913,0415.170
- Title
- Object: India-Proofs of Wood-Engravings by The Brothers Dalziel
- Description
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Album with hand-written title page: '1856. India-Proofs of Wood-Engravings by The Brothers Dalziel. General Work - Various: 1856. This Book was made up at the time the engravings shown in it were done.' Half-bound in brown leather and gilt; lettering on spine reads 'Wood-Engravings by the Brothers Dalziel. VIII. Various Works. 1856'. The album includes approximately 1220 wood-engraved proofs.
There is a wide variety of book illustrations, including to poetry, religious works, architecture, travel, literature and history. There are numerous children's illustrations (both fiction and non-fiction), including spelling books and fairytales. There are topographical illustrations, advertisements (e.g. for a stationers) and illustrated title pages to non fiction books such as a cookery book. There are several diagrams, and comic and decorative wood engravings.
Individual prints include the following:
Nos. 1-6: Dalziel Brothers after Frederick Richard Pickersgill. Six large scale wood engravings, the second series of the rare 'Compositions from the Life of Christ'. This was an artistically ambitious collaboration between the Dalziels and Pickersgill, which was a commercial failure. It is discussed in their memoir, 'The Brothers Dalziel: A Record of Work, 1840-1890' (London: 1901). For impressions of the first series, see museum registration numbers 1982,U.873.1-6, and also the first volume of the Dalziel proofs, 1913,0415.164.
No. 31: An engraved title page, with an illustration of a steam train and numeous passengers and pieces of luggage, and the following text: 'The Cheapest Book in the World: The Railway Anecdote Book for the Reading of Railway Passengers. 2000 Anecdotes for One Shilling. London: Ward & Lock.'
Nos. 235-244: Illustrations for H. W. Dulcken, 'The Book of German Songs: from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century' (London: Ward and Lock, 1856).
Nos. 245-251: Illustrations for [Edward Meyrick Goulburn], 'The Book of Rugby School: Its History and Daily Life' (s.l.: Crossley and Billington, 1856). Other illustrations to this publication can be found in the Dalziel volume for 1855 (reg. no. 1913,0415.169).
Nos. 643-647 and 649-653: Illustrations for Tennyson's 'Poems by Alfred Tennyson, D.C.L., Poet Laureate' (London: E. Moxon, 1857), a landmark in book illustration, usually called the 'Moxon Tennyson'. The images listed here are by the Dalziel Brothers after artists including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais. The Moxon Tennyson had numerous fine illustrations, some of which were engraved by the Dalziels, and some by other wood engraving firms. The Dalziels continued to work on this project in the following year, and other illustrations can be found in the volume for 1857 (reg. no. 1913,0415.172).
Nos. 1030-1129. Illustrations to R. A. Willmott (ed.), 'The Poets of the Nineteenth Century' (London: Routledge, 1857). Again, these illustrations are for a landmark book in the history of British book illustration, with images by the Dalziel Brothers after numerous artists including Ford Madox Brown, Frederick Richard Pickersgill, John Everett Millais and Myles Birket Foster.
- Producer name
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Print made by: Dalziel Brothers (All)
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After: Sir John Gilbert (Nos. 30, 37-44, 358-365, 482-7, 611-2(?), 1034, 1065, 1077, 1084, 1089-90, 1100-1, 1112, 1138-52 (many have Gilbert's monogram, and all were identified as his by Campbell Dodgson))
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After: William Harvey (Nos. 974-9, 1013, 1031-3, 1055, 1057, 1066, 1071, 1081-2, 1086-7, 1093, 1098-9 (all attributed by Campbell Dodgson))
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After: Harrison William Weir (Nos. 86-7, 527-33, 633, 638, 655-62, 695-702, 735-42, 751-8, 903-10, 1012, 1036, 1213-20 (many with signature or monogram, all attributed by Campbell Dodgson, some attributed in the volumes in a 19th-century hand, probably one of the Dalziels'))
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After: Edward Henry Corbould (No. 1001, 1009, 1096, 1120, 1128-9 (almost all with signature; all attributed by Campbell Dodgson))
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After: Thomas Bolton Gilchrist Septimus Dalziel (Nos. 17(?), 84-5(?), 123-48(?), 189-94(?), 321-4(?), 727-34, 967-70, 980-3, 995-6, 1040, 1053, 1056, 1075, 1104-7, 1111, 1113-4 (all attributed by Campbell Dodgson, sometimes with a query, as indicated; some attributed in the volumes in a 19th-century hand, probably one of the Dalziels'))
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After: Myles Birket Foster (Nos. 342-9, 922, 924, 926, 930, 938-41, 944, 949-50, 961-2, 992-4, 997-8, 1003-5, 1007-8, 1011, 1030, 1037-9, 1041-2, 1046-7, 1050, 1062-3, 1068, 1074, 1078, 1094, 1121-3 (almost all with signature or monogram; all attributed by Campbell Dodgson))
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After: William McConnell (Nos. 575-604, 719-726, 743-750, 815-859, 866 (a few with monogram or signature, all attributed by Campbell Dodgson; some attributed in the volumes in a 19th-century hand, probably one of the Dalziels'))
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After: Sir John Tenniel (Nos. 918, 920, 925, 927, 931, 934, 943, 945, 948, 951, 957-60, 971-3, 1048-9, 1072-3, 1088, 1124 (many with monogram; all attributed by Campbell Dodgson))
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After: Reverend Edward Bradley (Nos. 433-479 (most with signature or monogram; all attributed by Campbell Dodgson))
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After: John Richard Clayton (Nos. 915-7, 919, 921, 923, 928-9, 932-3, 936-7, 942, 946-7, 952-6, 963-6, 984-91, 1045, 1067, 1085, 1103, 1109, 1126 (some with monogram or signature; all attributed by Campbell Dodgson))
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After: Frederick Richard Pickersgill (Nos. 1-6, 1095 (most with monogram))
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After: Edward Angelo Goodall (No. 1108 (with monogram; attributed by Campbell Dodgson))
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After: James Duffield Harding (No. 1058 (with monogram, and attributed by Campbell Dodgson))
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After: Arthur Hughes (No. 1035)
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After: Dante Gabriel Rossetti (No. 653 (with monogram))
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After: John Everett Millais (Nos. 643-7, 651-2, 1059, 1064 (some with monogram))
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After: J H Powell (Nos. 93-105, 107-11, 114, 413-5, 512-5, 877, 885, 890 (some with monogram (?), all attributed by Campbell Dodgson))
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After: Ford Madox Brown (No. 1060)
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After: Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz) (Nos. 204-5, 350-7, 411-2, 416-8, 1130-7 (many with monogram, all attributed by Campbell Dodgson))
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After: Alfred Crowquill (Nos. 663-94, 703-18, 759-814 (all attributed by Campbell Dodgson, some attributed in the volumes in a 19th-century hand, probably one of the Dalziels'))
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After: George Cruikshank (Nos. 893-4 (with monogram, and attributed by Campbell Dodgson))
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After: Edward Dalziel (Nos. 1006, 1116, 1125 (all attributed by Campbell Dodgson))
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After: George Haydock Dodgson (Nos. 1054, 1069-70, 1091-2, 1097, 1127 (all with signature or monogram, and attributed by Campbell Dodgson))
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After: James William Edmund Doyle (Nos. 7-16 (with monogram, and attributed by Campbell Dodgson))
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After: Edward Duncan (Nos. 1043-4, 1076, 1083, 1102 (all with monogram, and attributed by Campbell Dodgson))
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After: James Godwin (Nos. 999, 1000, 1002, 1051-2, 1110, 1115, 1117-9 (almost all with signature; all attributed by Campbell Dodgson))
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After: William Holman Hunt (Nos. 649-50 (both with monogram))
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After: C E Johnson (Nos. 256, 258 (one with signature, one with monogram; both attributed by Campbell Dodgson))
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After: William Leighton Leitch (No. 1061 (with monogram, and attributed by Campbell Dodgson))
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After: Daniel Maclise (Nos. 648, 869-74, 880-4 (almost all with monogram; all attributed by Campbell Dodgson))
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Published by: Edward Moxon (Nos. 643-653)
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Published by: Routledge (Nos. 1030-1129)
- Production date
- 1856
- Curator's comments
- Catalogued by Bethan Stevens (University of Sussex) in partnership with the British Museum and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC); digital photography by Sylph Editions, London (www.sylpheditions.com).
At the front of the volume is a handwritten list of artists linked to several of the prints. The handwriting has been identified as Campbell Dodgson's, after comparison with the bound volume 'Specimens of Handwriting', held in the British Museum Print Room. Where no comments are given after the names of producers, evidence is clear and has been verified (e.g. signed print, publication details, etc.). An overview of the album has been offered here, but it would be possible to identify more publications and artists on inspection and with further research.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1913
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1913,0415.170
