DMVI | Database of Mid-Victorian Illustration

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Title:

Bright as the pillar rose at Heaven's command

Source Text:

Thomas Campbell, 'The Pleasures of Hope' 1799 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 268–323

Illustrator:

Myles Birket Foster

Engraver:

Edmund Evans

Size:

95 mm x 57 mm / 3"24 x 2"8

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP153

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Title:

But tell her, when I'm gone, to train the rose-bush that I set

Source Text:

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 'The May Queen' 1861 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 351–67

Illustrator:

Eleanor Vere Boyle [E.V.B.]

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

76 mm x 97 mm / 3"0 x 3"26

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP189

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Title:

But the long pomp, the midnight masquerade

Source Text:

Oliver Goldsmith, 'The Deserted Village' 1770 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 29–60

Illustrator:

John Callcott Horsley

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

97 mm x 43 mm / 3"26 x 1"22

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP044

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Title:

Came forth with wishes and with farewell prayers

Source Text:

William Wordsworth, 'Michael: A Pastoral Poem' 1800 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 326–48

Illustrator:

Henry Warren

Engraver:

Edmund Evans

Size:

98 mm x 114 mm / 3"27 x 4"16

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP178

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Title:

Can storied urn, or animated bust

Source Text:

Thomas Gray, 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' 1751 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 12–28

Illustrator:

George Housman Thomas

Engraver:

Horace Harral

Size:

105 mm x 72 mm / 4"4 x 2"27

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP010

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Title:

Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd

Source Text:

Oliver Goldsmith, 'The Deserted Village' 1770 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 29–60

Illustrator:

Thomas Webster

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

89 mm x 40 mm / 3"16 x 1"18

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP040

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Title:

Deposits seed, and bids new harvests rise

Source Text:

Robert Bloomfield, 'The Farmer's Boy' 1800 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 116–93

Illustrator:

Myles Birket Foster

Engraver:

W. T. Green

Size:

93 mm x 114 mm / 3"21 x 4"16

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP098

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Title:

Down the wide stairs a darkling way they found

Source Text:

John Keats, 'The Eve of St. Agnes' 1820 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 89–115

Illustrator:

Edward Henry Wehnert

Engraver:

Thomas Bolton

Size:

89 mm x 102 mm / 3"16 x 4"1

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP079

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Title:

Down where yon anchoring vessel spreads the sail

Source Text:

Oliver Goldsmith, 'The Deserted Village' 1770 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 29–60

Illustrator:

Thomas Creswick

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

80 mm x 32 mm / 3"5 x 1"8

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP053

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Title:

Drown'd all in Rhenish and the sleepy mead

Source Text:

John Keats, 'The Eve of St. Agnes' 1820 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 89–115

Illustrator:

Edward Henry Wehnert

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

89 mm x 102 mm / 3"16 x 4"1

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP078

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Title:

Favourite English Poems Title-Page

Source Text:

'[stand-alone image]' 1862'[stand-alone image]' 1862 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), N/A, N/A

Illustrator:

[unknown]

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

63 mm x 55 mm / 2"15 x 2"5

Genre:

N/A N/A / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP001

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Title:

For ewes that stood aloof with fearful eye

Source Text:

Robert Bloomfield, 'The Farmer's Boy' 1800 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 116–93

Illustrator:

Harrison William Weir

Engraver:

W. Wright

Size:

95 mm x 114 mm / 3"24 x 4"16

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP110

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Title:

For food or play, came to the mariners' hollo!

Source Text:

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' 1798 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 215–61

Illustrator:

Edward Henry Wehnert

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

89 mm x 108 mm / 3"16 x 4"8

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP125

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Title:

For many a thousand bodies there

Source Text:

Robert Southey, 'The Battle of Blenheim' 1798 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 264–67

Illustrator:

Myles Birket Foster

Engraver:

Edmund Evans

Size:

86 mm x 113 mm / 3"12 x 4"14

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP147

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Title:

For pigs, and ducks, and turkeys throng the door

Source Text:

Robert Bloomfield, 'The Farmer's Boy' 1800 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 116–93

Illustrator:

Harrison William Weir

Engraver:

James Davis Cooper

Size:

102 mm x 89 mm / 4"1 x 3"16

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP085

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Title:

From Kilda to the green Ierne's shore

Source Text:

Thomas Campbell, 'The Pleasures of Hope' 1799 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 268–323

Illustrator:

Myles Birket Foster

Engraver:

William Frederick Measom

Size:

95 mm x 38 mm / 3"24 x 1"16

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP167

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Title:

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen

Source Text:

Thomas Gray, 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' 1751 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 12–28

Illustrator:

Eleanor Vere Boyle [E.V.B.]

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

89 mm x 105 mm / 3"16 x 4"4

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP011

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Title:

Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee

Source Text:

Oliver Goldsmith, 'The Deserted Village' 1770 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 29–60

Illustrator:

Thomas Webster

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

92 mm x 40 mm / 3"20 x 1"18

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP039

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Title:

Giles with a pole assails their close retreats

Source Text:

Robert Bloomfield, 'The Farmer's Boy' 1800 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 116–93

Illustrator:

Myles Birket Foster

Engraver:

Thomas Bolton

Size:

89 mm x 102 mm / 3"16 x 4"1

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP091

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Title:

Hark! 'tis an elfin storm from faëry land

Source Text:

John Keats, 'The Eve of St. Agnes' 1820 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 89–115

Illustrator:

Edward Henry Wehnert

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

89 mm x 64 mm / 3"16 x 2"17

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP077