- Museum number
- 1913,0415.187
- 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. "Sunday Magazine". "Good Words". "Good Words for the Young". "Saint Paul's". 1869 & 1870. 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. XXVI. Sunday Magazine. Good Words. Good Words for the Young. Saint Paul's. 1869-70.'. The album includes approximately 1517 wood-engraved proofs made for periodicals. Please note that the numbering in this album is particularly unreliable. Duplicate numbers are differentiated with additional letters, (e.g. 101, 101a, etc.). While most of the wood-engravings are made after drawn designs, there are also many after photographs. The album also includes some images that were apparently unused.
Contents include:
Nos. 1-86: titles and illustrations after various artists for ‘The Sunday Magazine’, vol. V, 1st February 1869 – 1st September 1869. Writings illustrated include: ‘The Crust and the Cake’, ‘Forgotten by the World’, ‘The Wesleys and their Hymns’, ‘Red-letter Days at a Mission Station’, ‘A Peep into a Garret’, ‘A Narrative Sermon’, ‘Bird Fair in Shoreditch’, ‘The Babylonian Captivity’, ‘Samson’, ‘Rhabdomancy’ and others.
No. 87: illustration for ‘The Sunday Magazine’ not used till 1872.
Nos. 88-259: titles and illustrations after various artists for ‘The Sunday Magazine’, vol. VI, 1st October 1869 – 1st September 1870. Writings illustrated include: ‘Episodes in an Obscure Life’, ‘My Mother’s Knee’, ‘The Rainbow’, ‘The Struggle in Ferrara’, ‘The Croucher at the Door’, ‘The Fallen Leaf’, ‘Sunday on a Remote Colonial Farm’, ‘Diana’s Portrait’, ‘The Festival of the Jewish Sabbath’ and others.
Nos. 260-302: titles and illustrations after various artists for ‘The Sunday Magazine’, vol. VII, 1st October 1870 – 1st February 1871. Writings illustrated include: ‘Simon Peter goes a-Fishing’, ‘My Heart’, ‘Tabernacle Observations’, ‘Your Life and Mine’, ‘The Child is Father of the Man’, ‘Tom Joiner’s Good Angel’ and others.
Nos. 303-514: titles and illustrations after various artists for ‘Good Words’, 1st February to 1st November 1869. Writings illustrated include: ‘Debenham’s Vow’, ‘Peeps at the Far East’, ‘Noblesse Oblige’, ‘The Staffordshire Potter’, ‘Under the Palms’, ‘Poor People’, ‘The Sailor Boy’, ‘Iona’, ‘Holyhead Breakwater’ and others.
Nos. 515-533: illustrations after various artists for ‘Good Cheer’ 1869 (the Christmas number of ‘Good Words’).
Nos. 534-549: illustrations after various artists for ‘Good Words’, 1st December 1869. Writings illustrated include: ‘Debenham’s Vow’, ‘Peeps at the Far East’, ‘Noblesse Oblige’, ‘The Huss Festival at Prague’ and others.
Nos. 550-654: illustrations after various artists for ‘Good Words’, 1st January to 1st December 1870. Writings illustrated include: ‘Carlino’, ‘Days in North India’, ‘Dorothy Fox’, ‘A Visit to the Country of the Vaudois’, ‘The Newcastle Collier’, ‘My Timepiece’, ‘The Hand-nailer’, ‘Fernyhurst Court’, ‘From Calcutta to Alexandria’ and others.
Nos. 655-661: illustrations after William Small for ‘Good Cheer’ 1870 (the Christmas number of ‘Good Words’).
Nos. 662-686: titles and illustrations after various artists for ‘Good Words’, 1st January to 1st February 1871. Writings illustrated include ‘The Sylvestres’, ‘The Window; Or, The Songs of the Wrens’, ‘The Dressmaker’, ‘The Coolie’ and others.
Nos. 687-1063: titles, part covers and illustrations after various artists for ‘Good Words for the Young’, vol. I, 1st November 1868 to 1st October 1869. Writings illustrated include Charles Kingsley, ‘Madam How and Lady Why’; George MacDonald, ‘At the Back of the North Wind’; ‘Hoity Toity’; ‘A Day in the Life of a Cat’; ‘A Lump of Coal’; ‘The Blue Princess’; and many others.
Nos. 1064-1389: part covers and illustrations after various artists for ‘Good Words for the Young’, vol. 2, 1st November 1869 to 1st October 1870. Includes the Christmas number, ‘The Amalgamated Robin Redbreasts’. Writings illustrated include George MacDonald, ‘At the Back of the North Wind’ and ‘Ranald Bannerman’s Boyhood’; ‘The Boy who had no Memory’; ‘About Monkeys’; ‘The Village School’; and many others.
Nos. 1390-1475a: title-page, part cover (?) and illustrations after various artists for ‘Good Words for the Young’, vol. 3, 1st November 1869 to 1st February 1871. Writings illustrated include George MacDonald, ‘The Princess and the Goblin’; ‘When I was Young’; ‘The Village School’; ‘The Wreck of “The Prospero”'; and many others.
Nos. 1476-1517: titles and illustrations mostly (or perhaps all) after F A Fraser, for ‘St Paul’s Magazine’, edited by Anthony Trollope. Writings illustrated include Margaret Oliphant, ‘The Three Brothers’; George MacDonald, ‘Wilfrid Cumbermede’; and Anthony Trollope, ‘Ralph the Heir’. There is also a separate decorative title-page for ‘Ralph the Heir’. The titles included here were all published in the 'St Paul's Magazine' in 1869-1871. Presumably all these illustrations were produced after the publication passed from James Virtue to the new publisher, Strahan.
- Producer name
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Print made by: Dalziel Brothers (All)
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Published by: Alexander Strahan (All (see also description of nos. 1476-1517))
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After: Frederick Barnard (Nos. 275(m?), 508(m), 510(s), 693(m), 1144(s), 1146-1147(s), 1150(m), 1155(s), 1189(s), 1212-1215(m))
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After: Edward Frederick Brewtnall (Nos. 10(m), 526-527(m), 713(m), 745(m), 953(m), 1171(m), 1290(m), 1461(s))
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After: Edward Gurden Dalziel (Nos. 166(m), 253(m), 313(m), 342(m), 344(m), 444(m), 552a(m), 610(m), 676(m), 1153(m), 1157(m), 1320(m))
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After: Thomas Bolton Gilchrist Septimus Dalziel (Nos. 19-22, 53, 96, 109-110, 163, 311-312, 341, 343, 550-557, 537a-542a, 696?, 744, 746-747, 764?, 864?, 866?-867?, 1208-1209, 1210?-1211?, 1225-1226, 1289, 1395, 1424 (NB all queried numbers are identifed in the original publication as being after either T. Dalziel or another artist; attributed to Dalziel on stylistic grounds))
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After: Francis Arthur Fraser (Nos. 52(m), 72(m), 92-95, 106(m), 108(m), 117-119(m), 129-130(m), 137-139(m), 157-159(m), 170(m), 185-186(m), 201-203(m), 211(m), 226(m), 250(m), 266, 288-289(m), 291(m), 294(m), 303-305(m), 326, 327-328(m), 330-331, 332-333(m), 334-335, 360(m), 363(m), 365(m), 367-369, 370-371(m), 372-373, 374(m), 385-387(m), 388, 389(m), 390, 412-413(m), 414-417, 418-419(m), 430, 431-432(m), 433-435, 439, 446, 447(m), 448, 449(m), 450-451, 463-464(m), 465-467, 480, 481(m), 482-485, 503(m), 504-505, 506(m), 507, 509(m), 534-538(m), 546(m), 561-563(m), 571-573(m), 581, 582(m), 583, 588(m), 510a(m), 526a-528a(m), 545a(m), 546a, 547a(m), 565a(m), 566a-570a, 571a(m), 572a-573a(m), 588a-589a, 590, 592(m), 593-594, 597(m), 603, 604(m), 605, 606(m), 607, 608(m), 613(m), 614-616, 617(m), 618, 622-623a, 623b(m), 624-625, 632-634, 635-636(m), 637, 646-650, 651a(m), 663-665, 666(m), 677, 678(m), 679, 681(m), 718-719(m), 767-768, 770(m), 772(m), 801, 831-832, 833(m), 856-857(m), 894(m), 896(m), 914(m), 918-919(m), 943(m), 952(m), 981, 1079(m), 1080-1081, 1082(m), 1123(m), 1191(m), 1196(m), 1303(m), 1344-1345(m), 1346, 1392(m), 1393, 1474(m), 1478(m), 1480-1481(m), 1483(m), 1487-1488(m), 1493(m), 1494-1495(m), 1500-1504(m), 1506-1509(m), 1512-1513(m), 1515(m), 1517(m) (NB nos. 767 & 768 are identifed in the original publication as being part of a series after Fraser, Pettie, and Wiegand; these are here attributed to Fraser, since the other illustrations in the series are signed by the other artists))
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After: Henry French (Nos. 9(m), 132(m), 144(s), 357(s), 358(m), 793(m), 827(m), 897(m), 973(m), 1066(m), 1101(m), 1181, 1190(m), 1422(s), 1429(s))
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After: Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (Nos. 697(s), 698-699, 700-711(s), 712, 749(s), 750, 751-753(s), 754, 755-760(s), 761, 762-763(s), 781-790(s), 791-792, 813-815(s), 816, 817-826(s), 838, 839-842(s), 843-845, 846-850(s), 851, 852(s), 881-890(s), 902, 903-907(s), 908, 909-913(s), 927-928(s), 929, 930-939(s), 957-958(s), 959-960, 961-967(s), 968, 969(s), 970, 971-972(s), 993-994(s), 995, 996(s), 997, 998-1000(s), 1001, 1002(s), 1018(s), 1019, 1020-1021(s), 1022, 1023(s), 1024, 1025-1030(s), 1046(s), 1047-1048, 1049(s), 1050, 1051(s), 1052, 1053(s), 1054, 1055(s), 1117-1120(s), 1413-1420(s) (signature is 'Bab'; sometimes the signature is cropped in the proof but present in the final publication))
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After: Miss Constance Frederica Gordon-Cumming (Nos. 577-578)
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After: Charles Green (Nos. 299(m), 1302(m), 1334)
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After: Townley Green (Nos. 89(m), 90, 91(m), 103(m), 105(m), 120-121(m), 126(m), 140(m), 142(m), 160-161(m), 171(m), 173(m), 182-184(m), 188(m), 197-199(m), 213-215(m), 223-224(m), 234(m), 236(m), 252(m), 261-262(m), 263, 264(m), 270-272(m), 279(m), 297-298(m), 452(m), 528-529(m), 543a(m), 574a, 575a(m), 611(m), 1102(m), 1132-1133(m), 1135-1136(m), 1166(m), 1207(m), 1258(m), 1312(m), 1313, 1314-1315(m), 1452b(m))
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After: Ernest Griset (Nos. 1072-1078(m), 1121-1122(m), 1125(s), 1126(m), 1167(m), 1168(s), 1169-1170(m), 1192(m), 1193, 1194(m), 1195, 1253(s), 1255-1257(m), 1293-1296(m), 1297, 1361(s), 1362(m), 1380(s), 1381-1382(m), 1385(s), 1386-1388(m), 1433(s), 1434, 1448, 1449(m), 1450, 1451-1452a(m), 1454-1455(m), 1456(s), 1457(m), 1475-1475a(s))
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After: Sydney Prior Hall (Nos. 1042(s), 1043-1044(m))
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After: Sir Hubert von Herkomer (Nos. 195(m), 220(m), 443(m), 720(m), 1097(m), 1229, 1462)
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After: Thomas Hood (Nos. 1007-1008(m), 1009, 1010(m), 1011, 1012(m))
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After: Arthur Boyd Houghton (Nos. 25(m), 44(s), 55(s), 56(m), 84(m), 87(m), 97, 111(m), 115(m), 230(m), 277(m), 721(m), 766?, 773(m), 775(m), 794(m), 1071, 1089(m), 1400(m) (NB no. 766 is identifed in the original publication as being either after Houghton or T. Dalziel; attributed to Houghton on stylistic grounds))
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After: Arthur Hughes (Nos. 265, 296(m), 468(m), 486, 638(m), 651(m), 662(m), 680(m), 714-717(m), 777, 778(m), 779, 780(m), 809-810(m), 811-812, 836-837(m), 869, 870(m), 871-872, 891-892(m), 916-917(m), 945-946(m), 947-948, 954-955(m), 982-985, 1015(m), 1016, 1038-1041, 1069, 1070(m), 1083-1086(m), 1088(m), 1098-1099, 1100(m), 1103-1106(m), 1158(m), 1159-1161, 1162-1164(m), 1182, 1183-1187(m), 1188, 1200-1203, 1204-1206(m), 1216-1223(m), 1243, 1244-1249(m), 1282-1283(m), 1284, 1285-1288(m), 1304-1308(m), 1316, 1317-1319(m), 1321-1322(m), 1330-1333(m), 1351(m), 1352, 1356-1358(m), 1359, 1360(m), 1371-1371a, 1372(m), 1375-1376, 1377(m), 1378, 1391?, 1394(m), 1401, 1402-1404(m), 1412(m), 1421(m), 1426(m), 1435-1438(m), 1440-1444(m), 1445, 1465-1467(m), 1468, 1469(m) (NB in nos. 662 and 680, the monogram is cut off in the published, cropped, design))
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After: A Johns (No. 1165(m))
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After: C A Johns (Nos. 865(m), 875(m), 877-878(m), 898-901(m), 976(m), 1017(m), 1035(m), 1036, 1037(m), 1060-1061(m) (NB in no. 900 the monogram is only partially printed))
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After: W Jones (Nos. 1148?-1149?(m), 1224(m) (in nos. 1148-1149, monogram could indicate W Jones or W Small))
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After: John Leighton (Nos. 51(s), 98(s), 112, 113(m), 114, 125(s), 149(s), 152(m), 512(m), 533(s), 564(m), 568(m), 569, 570(s), 675(s), 1064-1065(s))
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After: James Dromgole Linton (Nos. 269(m), 619(m))
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After: Robert Walker Macbeth (No. 300(m))
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After: J Mahoney (Nos. 14(m), 34(m), 64(m), 134-136(m), 243(m), 256(m), 278(m), 280(m), 292, 336-340, 359(m), 362(m), 384(m), 522-523(m), 511a(m), 627(m), 799(m), 859(m), 922(m), 944(m), 992(m), 1032(m), 1045(m), 1058(m), 1228(m), 1427(m), 1446(m), 1472(m))
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After: George John Pinwell (Nos. 2-4(m), 15-17(m), 28(m), 31(m), 32, 38(m), 39, 40(m), 45-47(m), 57(m), 58, 59(m), 65(m), 66, 67(m), 75-77(m), 133(m), 584(m), 536a, 551a(m), 670(m))
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After: John Mc L Ralston (No. 591(s))
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After: Briton Rivière (Nos. 737-740(s), 860-862(s), 868(s))
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After: Robert Thorburn Ross (No. 1471(s))
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After: Rosting (No. 37)
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After: Thomas Dewell Scott (No. 301(m), 580(m), 674(m))
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After: William Small (Nos. 127(m), 249, 361(m), 515-517(m), 530(m), 531(s), 655-661(m), 671(m), 673(m), 1148?-1149?(m) (for nos. 1148-1149, monogram could indicate W Small or W Jones))
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After: E Smith (No. 991(s))
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After: Thomas Sulman (Nos. 5(m), 54(s), 73, 74(s), 345-347, 420(s), 520a(s), 533a(s), 553a(s), 687(s), 748(s), 828, 863, 915, 1013, 1390(s))
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After: John Gordon Thomson (Nos. 1(m), 7, 8(m), 11-13(m), 29-30(m), 33(m), 41-42(m), 43, 48-50(m), 60-61(m), 62, 68-70(m), 79-81(m), 1291(m), 1399(m))
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After: Francis S Walker (Nos. 26-27(m), 63(m), 71(m), 83(m), 99(m), 196(m), 204(m), 229(m), 240(m), 257(m), 273-274(m), 276(m), 314-315(m), 316-317, 318(m), 319, 322(m), 323-324, 325(m), 403(m), 511(m), 524-525(m), 532(m), 558-560(m), 574-575(m), 576, 585-587(m), 529a-531a(m), 578a(m), 596(m), 598(m), 609(m), 626(m), 940(m), 1031(m), 1059(m), 1087(m), 1090, 1091(m), 1092, 1094(m), 1140-1142(m), 1242(m), 1268-1280(m), 1292(m), 1363(m), 1384(m), 1389(m), 1425(m), 1453(m), 1457a-1459(m), 1470(m))
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After: W J Wiegand (Nos. 123-124(m), 128(m), 148(m), 167(m), 175(s), 177(m), 189-190(s), 191(m), 193(m), 207(m), 216(m), 231-233(m), 241(m), 254-255(m), 267(m), 268, 694(m), 726-736(m), 765(m), 800(m), 802-807(m), 986-989(m), 1131(m), 1137-1139(m), 1151(m), 1250(s), 1251(m), 1299-1301(m), 1405-1407(m), 1409-1411(m))
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After: Joseph Wolf (No. 692? (NB no. 692 is identifed in the original publication as being either after Wolf, Zwecker, Barnard or Wiegand; attributed to Wolf on stylistic grounds))
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After: Thomas W Wood (No. 1156(m))
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After: Johann Baptist Zwecker (Nos. 395, 555a(m), 639-642(m), 683(m), 690-691(m), 741-742, 743(m), 769(m), 771(m), 774(m), 776(m), 795(m), 808(s), 830(m), 853(s), 858(m), 873-874(m), 895(m), 920-921(m), 923(m), 941-942(m), 980(m), 1014(m), 1154(m), 1199(s), 1230(m), 1265-1267(m), 1285(m), 1298(m), 1311(m), 1348-1350(m), 1373-1374(m), 1379(m), 1398(m), 1408(m), 1428(m), 1439(m), 1463, 1464(m), 1473(m) (NB in no. 642, the monogram appears in the published print but not this proof))
- Production date
- 1869-1870
- Dimensions
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Height: 449 millimetres (size of bound album)
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Thickness: 62 millimetres (size of bound album)
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Width: 306 millimetres (size of bound album)
- 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).
This is one in a series of 49 albums in the British Museum with proof impressions of wood-engravings by the Brothers Dalziel.
An overview of the album has been offered here, but it would be possible to identify more writers, publications and artists on inspection and with further research.
In many cases, designers have been listed for the wood-engravings. Where no attribution comments are given, evidence is clear and has been verified (e.g. through publication details, etc.). Further, some indication has also been given throughout when a designer's work is signed with signature or monogram. After the producer's name and the print number or range, the letter 's' in parentheses indicates a signature, the letter 'm' a monogram, and neither letter indicates a print that is unsigned by the draughtsman or draughtswoman. In addition, most of the proofs have the Dalziels' signature, although some do not. The presence/absence of the Dalziel signature has not been catalogued, since it is known that all these prints are by them.
The album includes some hand-written annotation, including brief notes written at the Dalziel office, and some titles, publication details, designers and page numbers added more recently by Robin de Beaumont.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1913
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1913,0415.187
