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print; book-illustration; album

Object Type: print; book-illustration; album
Museum number: 1913,0415.172
Title: Object: India-Proofs of Wood-Engravings by The Brothers Dalziel
Description: Album with hand-written title page: 'India-Proofs of Wood-Engravings by The Brothers Dalziel. General Work - Various. 1857. 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. X. Various Works. 1857'. The album includes approximately 1377 wood-engraved proofs. There is a wide variety of book illustration, including to poetry, novels, science and travel literature. The prints listed after Browne (alias 'Phiz') include several illustrations to canonical 18th-century novels. There are numerous children's illustrations (both fiction and non-fiction), such as illustrations to fairytales. Individual prints include the following: Nos. 828-919: Scientific illustrations for an unidentified publication on Molluscs. Nos. 920-949: Illustrations to Milton's 'Comus'. Nos. 1161-1169: 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. Amongst these there are also illustrations to Moxon's edition of Tennyson's 'The Princess' (London: E. Moxon, 1860), after Daniel Maclise. For the Moxon Tennyson, see also volume VIII, with wood engravings for the same volume made in 1856 (see reg. no. 1913,0415.170).
Producer name: Print made by: Dalziel Brothers (All); After: Sir John Gilbert (Nos. 52-59, 68, 302, 365-72, 964-8, 970, 1278, 1290, 1337, 1347, 1357, 1370 (many have Gilbert's monogram or signature, and all were identified as his by Campbell Dodgson)); After: William Harvey (Nos. 4-6, 444-67, 646-68, 713-35, 971, 988-90, 1010, 1173, 1175, 1177, 1210-1, 1214, 1222, 1236, 1245, 1260, 1266, 1282, 1312, 1329, 1348, 1354 (all attributed by Campbell Dodgson)); After: Harrison William Weir (Nos. 151, 175, 436-43, 669-91, 742-57, 793-800, 928, 931-2, 935-8, 1213, 1224, 1232, 1249, 1257, 1268, 1271, 1280, 1307, 1319, 1323, 1330, 1360 (most with signature or monogram, all attributed by Campbell Dodgson)); After: Edward Henry Corbould (Nos. 282-9, 303-10, 774-9, 782(?), 785-92, 922, 924-5, 933-4, 940, 942-3, 947-8, 1003 (with signature or monogram; all attributed by Campbell Dodgson, once with a query, as indicated)); After: Thomas Bolton Gilchrist Septimus Dalziel (Nos. 311-40, 468-87, 507-96, 736-41, 951-2, 974, 976, 979, 981-2, 985-6, 1014-5, 1170-1, 1186, 1190, 1198, 1217-8, 1223, 1225, 1227, 1230-1, 1234, 1247-8, 1250-3, 1259, 1261-3, 1267, 1269, 1270, 1272-7, 1285, 1317, 1335, 1346, 1358, 1362, 1367, 1371, 1375 (one with monogram; all attributed by Campbell Dodgson)); After: Myles Birket Foster (Nos. 197, 432-5, 820-7, 939, 941, 1118-1160, 1172, 1176, 1178-83, 1188-9, 1191-2, 1194-5, 1197, 1199-1205, 1207-9, 1212, 1215, 1219, 1228-9, 1235, 1237, 1239-40, 1246, 1255-6, 1258, 1265, 1279, 1281, 1284, 1291, 1295, 1298, 1300, 1302, 1304, 1313, 1321, 1324, 1327, 1331, 1338, 1340, 1344-5, 1351-2 (most with signature, a few with monogram, and all attributed by Campbell Dodgson)); After: William McConnell (Nos. 215-57, 344, 373-413, 488-506 (a few with signature or monogram; all attributed by Campbell Dodgson)); After: Sir John Tenniel (Nos. 956-9, 972-3, 977, 1185, 1206, 1216, 1308, 1315 (many with monogram; all attributed by Campbell Dodgson)); After: John Richard Clayton (Nos. 950, 953, 962, 1174, 1184, 1193, 1286 (all attributed by Campbell Dodgson)); After: Frederick Richard Pickersgill (Nos. 921, 927, 945-6, 949, 975, 984, 1001, 1004, 1187, 1297, 1305, 1310, 1314, 1332, 1359 (all but one with monogram; all attributed by Campbell Dodgson)); After: Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Nos. 1161, 1163 (one with monogram)); After: John Everett Millais (Nos. 993, 1162, 1343, 1369 (three with monogram)); After: J H Powell (Nos. 2-3, 8-9, 15-7, 1002, 1013 (all attributed by Campbell Dodgson)); After: Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz) (Nos. 21-8, 60-67, 177-84, 258-81, 290-97, 623-45, 812-19 (many with monogram; all attributed by Campbell Dodgson)); After: Edward Dalziel (Nos. 1220-1, 1226, 1238, 1373 (all with monogram)); After: George Haydock Dodgson (Nos. 983, 1288, 1333, 1349 (all with signature)); After: Edward Duncan (Nos. 987, 991, 1196, 1233, 1355 (most with monogram; all attributed by Campbell Dodgson)); After: James Godwin (Nos. 298-301, 771,3, 954-5, 963, 1334, 1336, 1353, 1356, 1363 (many with signature; all attributed by Campbell Dodgson)); After: William Holman Hunt (No. 1165); After: William Leighton Leitch (No. 1008 (attributed by Campbell Dodgson)); After: Daniel Maclise (Nos. 11-14, 185, 188-90, 193, 1164, 1166-9 (many with monogram; all attributed by Campbell Dodgson)); Published by: Edward Moxon (Nos. 1161-69)
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Production date: 1857
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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.
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Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1913
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1913,0415.172