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William Small

Also known as: William Small; primary name: Small, William; other name: Small, William F
Details: individual; painter/draughtsman; British; Male
Life dates: 1843-1929
Biography: Painter, draughtsman illustrator, one of the most prolific of the 'Sixties School', worked closely with Joseph Swain (q.v.); born in Edinburgh and studied at the Royal Scottish Academy, initially worked in Edinburgh as an illustrator for advertisements; moved to London c.1865 where he established himself as a painter and illustrator and specialised in rustic themes and the poor; elected to Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, 1883, honorary member of Royal Scottish Academy, 1917; exhibited extensively including: Royal Academy, Agnews, Glasgow Institute of Fine Art, Manchester Academy of Fine Art, Royal Hiberian Academy, Royal Scottish Academy, Royal Institute of Oil Painters and the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. Examples of his work are held by Leicester Arts and Museum Service, Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum and the Tate Gallery.
Bibliography: R K Engen, 'Dictionary of Victorian Wood Engravers', 1985. Some details about Small at: http://www.victorianweb.org/victorian/art/illustration/small/index.html

133 related objects

drawing

Museum number: 1997,0712.112 |
Producer name: BIOG46461 Drawn by:William Small |
Production date: 1871

print; book-illustration; album

Title: India-Proofs of Wood-Engravings by The Brothers Dalziel |
Museum number: 1913,0415.184 |
Producer name: Block cut by:Dalziel BrothersAfter:William S Brunton |
Production date: 1867

print; book-illustration; album

Title: India-Proofs of Wood-Engravings by The Brothers Dalziel |
Museum number: 1913,0415.181 |
Producer name: Block cut by:Dalziel BrothersAfter:Thomas Bolton Gilchrist Septimus Dalziel |
Production date: 1865

print

Museum number: 1908,0414.952 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:Joseph Swain |
Production date: 1858-1908

print

Museum number: 1908,0414.961 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:Joseph Swain |
Production date: 1858-1908

print

Museum number: 1900,0613.493 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:William James Palmer |
Production date: 1858-1900

print

Museum number: 1908,0414.956 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:Joseph Swain |
Production date: 1858-1908

print; book-illustration

Title: Job Receiving the Messengers Dalziels' Bible Gallery |
Museum number: 1913,0415.201.668 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:Dalziel Brothers |
Production date: 1881

print

Museum number: 1908,0414.978 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:Joseph Swain |
Production date: 1858-1908

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1908,0414.939 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:Joseph Swain |
Production date: 1866

print

Museum number: 1908,0414.959 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:Joseph Swain |
Production date: 1858-1908

print

Museum number: 1908,0414.940 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:Joseph Swain |
Production date: 1858-1908

print

Museum number: 1908,0414.947 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:Joseph Swain |
Production date: 1858-1908

print

Museum number: 1908,0414.951 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:Joseph Swain |
Production date: 1858-1908

print

Museum number: 1908,0414.971 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:Joseph Swain |
Production date: 1858-1908

print

Museum number: 1908,0414.964 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:Joseph Swain |
Production date: 1858-1908

print

Museum number: 1908,0414.985 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:Joseph Swain |
Production date: 1858-1908

print

Museum number: 1908,0414.981 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:Joseph Swain |
Production date: 1858-1908

print

Museum number: 1908,0414.958 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:Joseph Swain |
Production date: 1858-1908

print

Museum number: 1908,0414.970 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:Joseph Swain |
Production date: 1858-1908

print; book-illustration; album

Title: India-Proofs of Wood-Engravings by The Brothers Dalziel |
Museum number: 1913,0415.182 |
Producer name: Block cut by:Dalziel BrothersAfter:Thomas Bolton Gilchrist Septimus Dalziel |
Production date: 1866

print

Museum number: 1900,0613.492 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:William James Palmer |
Production date: 1858-1900

print

Museum number: 1908,0414.960 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:Joseph Swain |
Production date: 1858-1908

print; book-illustration

Title: Cushi Brings to David News of the Death of Absalom Dalziels' Bible Gallery |
Museum number: 1913,0415.201.661 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:Dalziel Brothers |
Production date: 1881

print

Museum number: 1908,0414.963 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:Joseph Swain |
Production date: 1858-1908

print; book; book-illustration

Museum number: 1992,0406.364 |
Producer name: After:J BurlisonAfter:Thomas Bolton Gilchrist Septimus Dalziel |
Production date: 1866

print; book-illustration; album

Title: India-Proofs of Wood-Engravings by The Brothers Dalziel |
Museum number: 1913,0415.207 |
Producer name: Print made by:Dalziel BrothersPublished by:F Warne & Co |
Production date: 1887-1888

print; book-illustration; album

Title: India-Proofs of Wood-Engravings by The Brothers Dalziel |
Museum number: 1913,0415.202 |
Producer name: Print made by:Dalziel BrothersPublished by:F Warne & Co |
Production date: 1881

print; newspaper/periodical

Museum number: 1912,1227.184 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:William Harcourt Hooper |
Production date: 1872

print; newspaper/periodical

Museum number: 1908,0414.987 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:Joseph Swain |
Production date: 1880

print; newspaper/periodical

Museum number: 1908,0414.989 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:Joseph Swain |
Production date: 1881

print; newspaper/periodical

Museum number: 1908,0414.973 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:Joseph Swain |
Production date: 1881

print; newspaper/periodical

Museum number: 1908,0414.976 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:Joseph Swain |
Production date: 1881

print; newspaper/periodical

Museum number: 1908,0414.962 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:Joseph Swain |
Production date: 1883

print; newspaper/periodical

Museum number: 1908,0414.988 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:Joseph Swain |
Production date: 1880

print; newspaper/periodical

Museum number: 1908,0414.934 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:Joseph Swain |
Production date: 1867

print; newspaper/periodical

Museum number: 1912,1227.240 |
Producer name: Block cut by:William Harcourt HooperAfter:William Small |
Production date: 1872

print; newspaper/periodical

Museum number: 1912,0612.471 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:William Harcourt Hooper |
Production date: 1873

print; newspaper/periodical

Museum number: 1908,0414.954 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:Joseph Swain |
Production date: 1881

print; book-illustration; album

Title: India-Proofs of Wood-Engravings by The Brothers Dalziel |
Museum number: 1913,0415.198 |
Producer name: Print made by:Dalziel BrothersPublished by:Alexander Strahan |
Production date: 1878

print; book-illustration; album

Title: India-Proofs of Wood-Engravings by The Brothers Dalziel |
Museum number: 1913,0415.188 |
Producer name: Block cut by:Dalziel BrothersPublished by:Alexander Strahan |
Production date: 1870

print; book-illustration; album

Title: India-Proofs of Wood-Engravings by The Brothers Dalziel |
Museum number: 1913,0415.185 |
Producer name: Print made by:Dalziel BrothersPublished by:Richard Bentley |
Production date: 1868

print; book; book-illustration; newspaper/periodical

Museum number: 1992,0406.216.d |
Producer name: After:Francis Wilfred LawsonAfter:William Small |
Production date: 1868-1869 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book; book-illustration

Museum number: 1992,0406.206.g |
Producer name: Published by:Alexander StrahanPrinted by:Virtue & Co |
Production date: 1867 |
Production place: Printed in:London (England)Published in:London (England)

print; book; book-illustration

Museum number: 1992,0406.257 |
Producer name: After:Frederick WalkerAfter:George John Pinwell |
Production date: 1874 |
Production place: Printed in:London (England)Published in:London (England)

print; book; book-illustration

Museum number: 1992,0406.349 |
Producer name: After:Sir John GilbertAfter:John Dawson Watson |
Production date: 1877 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book; book-illustration

Museum number: 1992,0406.106 |
Producer name: After:George Housman ThomasAfter:Sir John Gilbert |
Production date: 1866 |
Production place: Printed in:London (England)Published in:London (England)

print; book; book-illustration

Museum number: 1996,1104.46 |
Producer name: After:Edward Gurden DalzielAfter:Robert Winchester Fraser |
Production date: 1875 |
Production place: Printed in:London (England)Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Museum number: 1908,0414.968 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:Joseph Swain |
Production date: 1879

print; book; book-illustration

Museum number: 1992,0406.383 |
Producer name: After:Henry Stacy MarksAfter:Edward Killingworth Johnson |
Production date: 1867 |
Production place: Printed in:London (England)Published in:London (England)

print; illustrated book; newspaper/periodical; bookplate

Museum number: 1992,0406.385 |
Producer name: Print made by:Dalziel BrothersPrint made by:Joseph Swain |
Production date: 1862-1867 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book; book-illustration

Museum number: 1992,0406.182 |
Producer name: After:Alfred W CooperAfter:William Small |
Production date: 1867 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book; book-illustration

Museum number: 1992,0406.392 |
Producer name: After:Thomas Dewell ScottAfter:Thomas Kennedy |
Production date: 1866 |
Production place: Made in:London (England)Published in:London (England)

print; book; book-illustration; newspaper/periodical

Museum number: 1992,0406.216.b |
Producer name: After:George John PinwellAfter:Alfred Thompson |
Production date: 1866-1867 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book; book-illustration

Museum number: 1992,0406.225 |
Producer name: After:Edmund Morison WimperisBlock cut by:William James Palmer |
Production date: 1868 |
Production place: Printed in:EdinburghPublished in:London (England)

print; book; book-illustration

Museum number: 1992,0406.137 |
Producer name: After:George John PinwellAfter:John William North |
Production date: 1867 |
Production place: Printed in:London (England)Published in:London (England)

print; illustrated book; bookplate

Museum number: 1992,0406.354 |
Producer name: Print made by:Dalziel BrothersPrint made by:R Taylor & Co |
Production date: 1881-1885 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1992,0406.288 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:Dalziel Brothers |
Production date: 1860-1880

print; book; book-illustration; newspaper/periodical

Museum number: 1992,0406.208.a |
Producer name: After:George Henry AndrewsAfter:Richard Ansdell |
Production date: 1869-1870 |
Production place: Printed in:London (England)Published in:London (England)

print; book; book-illustration

Museum number: 1992,0406.34 |
Producer name: After:George John PinwellAfter:William Small |
Production date: 1866 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book; book-illustration

Museum number: 1992,0406.20 |
Producer name: After:John Dawson WatsonAfter:Henry Courtney Selous |
Production date: 1867 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book; book-illustration; newspaper/periodical

Museum number: 1992,0406.216.a |
Producer name: After:Edwin BuckmanAfter:Hugh Cameron |
Production date: 1865-1866 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book; book-illustration

Museum number: 1996,1104.22 |
Producer name: After:George John PinwellAfter:John William North |
Production date: 1867 |
Production place: Printed in:London (England)Published in:Boston (Massachusetts)

print

Museum number: 1908,0414.950 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:Joseph Swain |
Production date: 1858-1908

print

Museum number: 1908,0414.948 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:Joseph Swain |
Production date: 1858-1908

print; book-illustration; album

Title: India-Proofs of Wood-Engravings by The Brothers Dalziel |
Museum number: 1913,0415.197 |
Producer name: Print made by:Dalziel BrothersPublished by:Chapman & Hall |
Production date: 1877

print

Museum number: 1908,0414.984 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:Joseph Swain |
Production date: 1858-1908

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1908,0414.943 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:Joseph Swain |
Production date: 1858-1908

print

Museum number: 1900,0613.494 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:William James Palmer |
Production date: 1858-1900

print

Museum number: 1900,0613.673 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:Percy Roberts |
Production date: 1858-1900

print

Museum number: 1908,0414.983 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:Joseph Swain |
Production date: 1858-1908

print

Museum number: 1908,0414.935 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:Joseph Swain |
Production date: 1858-1908

print

Museum number: 1908,0414.974 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:Joseph Swain |
Production date: 1858-1908

print

Museum number: 1908,0414.936 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:Joseph Swain |
Production date: 1858-1908

print

Museum number: 1908,0414.977 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:Joseph Swain |
Production date: 1858-1908

print

Museum number: 1908,0414.972 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:Joseph Swain |
Production date: 1858-1908

print

Museum number: 1908,0414.975 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:Joseph Swain |
Production date: 1858-1908

print

Title: "For Christ's Crown and Covenant" Painted by William Small, R.I. Key to the Portraits |
Museum number: 2010,7081.7463 |
Producer name: BIOG46461 After:William Small |
Production date: 1850s-1900

print

Museum number: 1908,0414.937 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:Joseph Swain |
Production date: 1858-1908

print

Museum number: 1908,0414.941 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:Joseph Swain |
Production date: 1858-1908

print

Museum number: 1908,0414.949 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:Joseph Swain |
Production date: 1858-1908

print

Museum number: 1908,0414.944 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:Joseph Swain |
Production date: 1858-1908

print

Museum number: 1908,0414.946 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:Joseph Swain |
Production date: 1858-1908

print

Museum number: 1900,0613.491 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:William James Palmer |
Production date: 1858-1900

print

Museum number: 1908,0414.945 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:Joseph Swain |
Production date: 1858-1908

print

Museum number: 1908,0414.957 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:Joseph Swain |
Production date: 1858-1908

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1992,0406.287 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:Dalziel Brothers |
Production date: 1870-1871

print

Museum number: 1908,0414.942 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:Joseph Swain |
Production date: 1858-1908

print

Museum number: 1900,0613.688 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:William James Palmer |
Production date: 1858-1900

print

Museum number: 1908,0414.938 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:Joseph Swain |
Production date: 1858-1908

print

Museum number: 1908,0414.967 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:Joseph Swain |
Production date: 1858-1908

print

Museum number: 1900,0613.490 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:William James Palmer |
Production date: 1858-1900

print; newspaper/periodical

Museum number: 1908,0414.969 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:Joseph Swain |
Production date: 1879

print; book; book-illustration

Museum number: 1992,0406.130 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:J Williamson |
Production date: 1866 |
Production place: Published in:Edinburgh

print; book-illustration; album

Title: India-Proofs of Wood-Engravings by The Brothers Dalziel |
Museum number: 1913,0415.195 |
Producer name: Print made by:Dalziel BrothersPublished by:Chapman & Hall |
Production date: 1875

print

Museum number: 1908,0414.953 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:Joseph Swain |
Production date: 1858-1908

print; newspaper/periodical

Museum number: 1908,0414.990 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:Joseph Swain |
Production date: 1881

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1992,0406.289 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:Dalziel Brothers |
Production date: 1860-1880

print; newspaper/periodical

Museum number: 1908,0414.932 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:Joseph Swain |
Production date: 1866

print; newspaper/periodical

Museum number: 1908,0414.966 |
Producer name: After:William SmallBlock cut by:Joseph Swain |
Production date: 1879

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