- Museum number
- 1913,0415.176
- Title
- Object: India-Proofs of Wood-Engravings by The Brothers Dalziel
- Description
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Album with hand-written title page: 'India-Proofs of Wood-Engravings by The Brothers Dalziel. General Work - Various. 1862. 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. XV. Various Works. 1862'. The album includes approximately 1353 wood-engraved proofs.
The album includes numerous book illustrations of all sorts, including many literary illustrations to novels, short stories and poetry, numerous commercial images, and numerous images for children. There are many illustrations for the periodicals 'Good Words', 'The Cornhill Magazine', 'London Society', 'Every Boy's Magazine' and 'The Art Journal'. The volume includes a large number of portraits, and there are also many landscapes, decorative illustrations, technical diagrams, maps, plans and topographical images, and religious and zoological images.
Individual prints include the following:
Nos. 11-28: illustrations after John Everett Millais for Anthony Trollope, 'Orley Farm' (London: Chapman & Hall, 1861-62). The present series includes most of the illustrations for volume II of the novel; for the rest of the illustrations, see the previous Dalziel album (reg. no. 1913,0415.175). Also, for copies of the published book, see reg. no. 1992,0406.386 (the two volume edition) and 1996,1104.48 (one of the monthly installments, in paper wrappers).
No. 467-79: wrapper or decorative title-page after Thomas R. Macquoid, and portraits after Thomas. D. Scott, for Robert Kempt (ed.), 'What Do You Think of the Exhibition?' (London: James Hogg & Sons, 1862). For related items on the 1862 International Exhibition, see also nos. 515-6 and 992-1024.
Nos. 507-14: illustrations after Marcus Stone for Charles Dickens's 'Pictures from Italy and American Notes', volume 17 of the Library Edition of the Works of Charles Dickens (London, 1862).
Nos. 515-6: two wood-engravings after John Proctor, representing the 1862 International Exhibition held in South Kensington, London. For related items, see also nos. 467-79 and 992-1024.
Nos. 535-8: illustrations after James Abbott Pasquier for Anne Bowman, 'Clarissa: or, the Mervyn Inheritance: A Book for Young Ladies' (London: Routledge, 1863).
Nos. 596-612: illustrated wrapper and illustrations for C. Linnaeus Banks (ed.), 'Blondin: His Life and Performances' (London: Routledge, 1862).
No. 692: illustrated title-page after Albert Joseph Moore for W. Eden Nesfield, 'Specimens of Mediaeval Architecture' (London: Day and Son, 1862).
Nos. 916-29: illustrations after Joseph Noel Paton and Waller H. Paton for William E Aytoun, 'Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems' (Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1863). These are 14 of the 35 wood engravings that Dalziel contributed to the book. The publication does not indicate which illustration was designed by which of the Paton brothers, and only some are signed, but the attribution indicated here is in line with the artists' interests. For the remaining illustrations to this publication, see 1913,0415.178.
Nos. 930-939: illustrations after John Everett Millais for Anthony Trollope, 'The Small House at Allington', as serialised in 'The Cornhill Magazine' from September 1862 to April 1864. This album includes the first of the illustrations, published up until January 1863. Each full-page illustration is accompanied by a vignette with an illustrated initial letter. The novel was eventually published in book form in 1864 by Smith, Elder & Co. The book publication included the full-page illustrations made for 'The Cornhill Magazine', but not the vignettes. Unusually for Millais's designs, two of the vignettes lack his monogram (nos. 931 & 933), but these are still assumed to be after his designs. For other illustrations to the novel, see reg. nos. 1913,0415.178 and 1913,0415.180.
Nos. 943-947: illustrations after Walter Crane and Arthur Boyd Houghton for Wilkie Collins, 'After Dark' (1856; London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1862).
Nos. 962-991: thirty wood engravings after Myles Birket Foster for his 'Pictures of English Landscape' (London: Routledge, 1863). Foster's wood engravings were accompanied by 'Pictures in Words' by Tom Taylor.
Nos. 992-1024: illustrated wrapper and numerous illustrations for 'The Art Journal Illustrated Catalogue of the International Exhibition' (London, 1862). For related items, see also nos. 467-79 and nos. 515-6.
Nos. 1052-1099: illustrations after John MacWhirter, John Everett Millais and John Pettie for William Wordsworth, 'Poems for the Young' (London: Alexander Strahan & Co., 1863)
- Producer name
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Block cut by: Dalziel Brothers (All)
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After: Sir John Gilbert (Nos. 630-33 (all with monogram))
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After: Harrison William Weir (Nos. 273-284 (all with signature))
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After: Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz) (Nos. 79, 96, 218, 307 (all with Browne's monogram or 'Pz' for Phiz))
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After: Henry Hugh Armstead (No. 150 (attributed by Arthur Aspitall))
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After: H S Barton (Nos. 264-70 (all with signature))
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After: Charles Henry Bennett (Nos. 31, 35, 52 (all with monogram))
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After: William Paton Burton (Nos. 129, 134-5, 151 (all with monogram))
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After: Alfred W Cooper (Nos. 42, 790-1 (all with monogram))
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After: Thomas Bolton Gilchrist Septimus Dalziel (Nos. 106, 448-56 (all attributed by Arthur Aspitall))
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After: Richard Doyle (Nos. 5-10, 879, 956-61 (many with monogram; all attributed by Arthur Aspitall))
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After: George Du Maurier (Nos. 30, 32, 55 (two with monogram; all attributed by Arthur Aspitall))
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After: Edmund Fitzpatrick (Nos. 289-306 (some with monogram; all attributed by Arthur Aspitall))
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After: Thomas Alexander Ferguson Graham (No. 165 (with signature))
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After: Keeley Halswelle (Nos. 634-41 (most with signature; all attributed by Arthur Aspitall))
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After: William Harvey (Nos. 56, 459-66 (attributed by Arthur Aspitall))
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After: Arthur Boyd Houghton (Nos. 60, 140, 157, 167, 169-70, 174, 912-5, 944-7 (all but one with monogram; all attributed by Arthur Aspitall))
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After: Percy William Justyne (Nos. 164, 480-3 (all with signature))
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After: Charles Keene (No. 149 (attributed by Arthur Aspitall))
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After: Frederick William Keyl (No. 870 (with signature))
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After: Matthew James Lawless (Nos. 43, 114, 156 (all but one with monogram; all attributed by Arthur Aspitall))
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After: J R Leifchild (Nos. 115-124 (all attributed by Arthur Aspitall))
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After: William McConnell (Nos. 39, 44, 58, 84, 85(?), 87-8, 95, 781-2, 784, 805 (some with monogram; all attributed by Arthur Aspitall, with query as indicated))
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After: Thomas Robert Macquoid (Nos. 29, 271-2, 467 (all with signature))
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After: John McWhirter (Nos. 158, 162, 1052, 1055-6, 1059-71, 1073-81, 1083-98 (all but one - no. 162 - either have monogram or are identified as McWhirter's in original publication; all attributed by Arthur Aspitall))
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After: John Everett Millais (Nos. 11-28, 62, 107, 113, 125, 132, 137, 141, 143, 146, 148, 153, 160, 166, 871, 930-40, 1048-51, 1053 (all but two with monogram; for comments on these two, see 'Object Description', nos. 930-39))
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After: Albert Moore (No. 692 (with monogram))
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After: Thomas Morten (Nos. 40, 77, 94, 109, 128, 910-11 (all with monogram))
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After: F W Andrew (No. 529 (with signature))
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After: Edward Burne-Jones (No. 126)
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After: Adelaide Claxton (Nos. 484, 486, 795-6 (all with monogram))
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After: Florence Anne Claxton (Nos. 64, 485 (both with monogram))
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After: Walter Crane (Nos. 943, 948-51 (all with signature))
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After: Myles Birket Foster (Nos. 962-91 (most with signature; all identified as Foster's in original publication))
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After: William Eden Nesfield (No. 692)
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After: James Abbott Pasquier (Nos. 73-6, 78, 80, 97, 535-58 (one with monogram, some identified as Pasquier's in original publication; all attributed by Arthur Aspitall))
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After: Sir Joseph Noel Paton (Nos. 916-24 (some with monogram; for comments on attribution see 'Object Description', nos. 916-29))
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After: Waller Hugh Paton (Nos. 925-9 (some with monogram; for comments on attribution see 'Object Description', nos. 916-29))
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After: John Pettie (Nos. 131, 163, 173, 1054, 1057-8, 1072, 1082, 1099 (all with monogram or signature))
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After: John Proctor (Nos 515-6 (with signature))
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After: H Sanderson (Nos. 34, 36, 783, 785-6 (some with monogram; all attributed by Arthur Aspitall))
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After: Frederick Sandys (No. 130 (with monogram))
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After: Thomas Dewell Scott (Nos. 468-79, 873 (all but one with monogram; all attributed by Arthur Aspitall))
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After: Simeon Solomon (No. 154 (with monogram))
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After: Marcus Stone (Nos. 138, 147, 507-14 (all with monogram))
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After: Sir John Tenniel (No. 104 (with monogram))
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After: Charles Verlat (No. 709 (with signature))
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After: David Walker (Nos. 100-3 (attributed by Arthur Aspitall))
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After: Frederick Walker (Nos. 54, 112, 136, 159 (all with monogram))
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After: John Dawson Watson (Nos. 33, 38, 41, 57, 59, 63, 108, 110-11, 127, 139, 144-5, 175, 557-9, 672, 787-9, 792-4, 804, 806-8 (all with monogram))
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After: James McNeill Whistler (Nos. 155, 161 (both with signature))
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After: Thomas W Wood (Nos. 708, 880-1 (all with signature))
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After: Johann Baptist Zwecker (Nos. 65-72, 92, 909, 941-2 (all with monoram or signature))
- Production date
- 1862
- 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 Arthur Aspitall'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
- 1913,0415.176
