- Museum number
- 1992,0406.21
- Description
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Dalziels' Bible Gallery. Illustrations from the Old Testament. From original drawings by Sir Frederic Leighton, P. R. A. , E.J. Poynter, R. A. [i.e. Edward John Poynter], G.F. Watts, R. A. [i.e. George Frederick Watts], H. Armstead, R. A. [i.e. Henry Hugh Armstead], E. Armytage, R. A. [i.e. Edward Armitage], F. Madox Brown [i.e. Ford Madox Brown], F. R. Pickersgill, R. A. [i.e. Frederick Richard Pickersgill], S. Solomon [i.e. Simeon Solomon], E. Burne-Jones [i.e. Edward Burne-Jones], F. Sandys [i.e. Frederick Sandys], T. Dalziel [i.e. Thomas Dalziel], E. G. Dalziel [i.e. Edward Gurden Dalziel], E. J. Brewtnall [i.e. probably Edward Frederick Brewtnall], W. Small [i.e. William Small], Fs. Walker, R. H. A. [i.e. Francis Sylvester Walker, Royal Hibernian Academy], A. B. Houghton [i.e. Arthur Boyd Houghton], A. Murch [i.e. Arthur Murch] and Holman Hunt. Engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. London: George Routledge and Sons, Broadway, Ludgate Hill, 1881. [London:] Dalziel Brothers The title pages states at top: “India Page Proofs.” Printed at the bottom of the title page: “1,000 copies of this edition only printed of which this is no. 422.” 67 plates/ pages of proofs, including the half title, the title page, the preface, and the Contents, and the colophon of the Dalziel Brothers. Each India Proof is pasted to a backing sheet, which has the title of the illustration and the name of the artist. Plate 55 is after Arthur Murch, entitled: “The flight of Adrammelech”. Plate 57 is after Edward Frederick Brewtnall, entitled: "Haman supplicating Esther”. Robin de Beaumont’s notes regarding the price of this copy are on the front endpaper recto. He has noted: “Not in Dalziel Archive. Now in solander boxes under individual artists in ‘English woodcuts of 19th cent. Designers’.
Binding: Bevelled boards. Cream endpapers and pastedowns. Full vellum binding. Possibly, this is thick paper over boards. This is an ‘all-over’ design, with blocking in gold and in light and dark red ink. Across both covers and spine there is a ‘fillet’ of dark red at head and tail, and, then a ‘fillet’ of bright red ink, between two dark red ink ‘fillets’. On both covers, within rectangles formed by gold ‘fillets’ at the head and the tail on the spine side, a pattern of oak and ivy leaves and stems is blocked in gold. On the upper cover, the title: “/ Dalziels/ Bible/ Gallery [all three words blocked in gold and in dark red ink, with the capital letters of each word within rectangles formed by two gold fillets, each surrounded by foliage blocked in red]/ India Proofs [in dark red only]/” . The spine has panels of oak leaves, blocked in gold, at head and tail, between the groups of fillets that run across the covers and the spine. On the centre of the spine, the words”/ Bible Gallery/” are blocked in gold along the spine.
- Production date
- 1881
- Dimensions
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Height: 436 millimetres
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Thickness: 37 millimetres
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Width: 346 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Apart from the titling, the same design is on a copy of: Taylor, Tom. Birket Foster’s pictures of English landscape. Engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. India proofs. [1881] BL shelf mark LB.37.c.277. [James Burn & Co. bound this BL copy, so it is possible that this company bound copies of ‘The Bible Gallery’.] https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/bookbindings/LargeImage.aspx?RecordId=020-000016912&ImageId=ImageId=56038&Copyright=BL
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The Bible Gallery.
- Acquisition date
- 1992
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1992,0406.21
