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Title:

Pictures Drawn by the Poets: "To Laura Playing"

Source Text:

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, 'To Laura Playing' 1759– 1805 in London Society (William Clowes, London: London Society), 2 (Dec 1862), 570

Illustrator:

[unknown]

Engraver:

William James Linton

Size:

114 mm x 178 mm / 4"16 x 7"0

Genre:

Poetry / Miscellany [periodical]

DMVI Code:

LSP037

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Title:

Pictures in the Fire

Source Text:

Gerald Massey, 'Pictures in the Fire' 1862 in Good Words (T. Constable, Edinburgh: Strahan & Co., London: Strahan & Co.), 3, 4 (Apr 1862), 199–200

Illustrator:

Thomas Morten

Engraver:

Dalziel Brothers

Size:

105 mm x 127 mm / 4"4 x 5"0

Genre:

Poetry / Miscellany [periodical]

DMVI Code:

GWP007

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Title:

Pierced the deep woods

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:

[unknown]

Size:

71 mm x 93 mm / 2"25 x 3"21

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP151

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Title:

Places of Worship

Source Text:

William Wordsworth, 'Places of Worship' 1822 in English Sacred Poetry (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Routledge & Co., 1862), 235–36

Illustrator:

John Dawson Watson

Engraver:

Dalziel Brothers

Size:

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

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

ESP054

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Title:

Poets of the Elizabethan Age Title-Page

Source Text:

'[stand-alone image]' 1862'[stand-alone image]' 1862 in The Poets of the Elizabethan Age (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), N/A, N/A

Illustrator:

Edmund Morison Wimperis

Engraver:

William James Palmer

Size:

76 mm x 57 mm / 3"0 x 2"8

Genre:

N/A N/A / Poetry

DMVI Code:

PEA001

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Title:

Pool Firing

Source Text:

Anon., 'Defence, Not Defiance; or, Society at the Wimbledon Rifle Meeting' 1862 in London Society (William Clowes, London: London Society), 2 (Sep 1862), 249–57

Illustrator:

Edward Killingworth Johnson

Engraver:

Horace Harral

Size:

92 mm x 75 mm / 3"20 x 2"30

Genre:

Non-fiction [sketch] / Miscellany [periodical]

DMVI Code:

LSF036

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Title:

Powder and Puff

Source Text:

'[stand-alone image]' 1862'[stand-alone image]' 1862 in Illustrated London News [Christmas Supplement] (George Leighton, London: George Leighton), 41, 1180 (20 Dec 1862), ,

Illustrator:

James Godwin

Engraver:

Mason Jackson

Size:

342 mm x 238 mm / 13"15 x 9"12

Genre:

N/A N/A / Newspaper

DMVI Code:

ILN009

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Title:

Praise of Country Life

Source Text:

Joshua Sylvester [trans.], 'Praise of Country Life' 1621 in English Sacred Poetry (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Routledge & Co., 1862), 19–21

Illustrator:

Harrison William Weir

Engraver:

Dalziel Brothers

Size:

102 mm x 127 mm / 4"1 x 5"0

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

ESP005

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Title:

Private Theatricals. Arming for the Part

Source Text:

Anon., 'Private Theatricals: Arming for the Part' 1862 in London Society (William Clowes, London: London Society), 1 (Apr 1862), 257

Illustrator:

Frederick Richard Pickersgill

Engraver:

Edmund Evans

Size:

117 mm x 188 mm / 4"19 x 7"13

Genre:

Poetry / Miscellany [periodical]

DMVI Code:

LSP015

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Title:

Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore

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:

82 mm x 40 mm / 3"7 x 1"18

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP045

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Title:

Provision for the Future

Source Text:

Anon., 'A Half-Holiday with the Actors' 1862 in London Society (William Clowes, London: London Society), 2 (Sep 1862), 193–202

Illustrator:

William McConnell

Engraver:

Dalziel Brothers

Size:

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

Genre:

Non-fiction [sketch] / Miscellany [periodical]

DMVI Code:

HHA003

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Title:

Pursuit of Pleasure under Difficulties: Getting home from the Crystal Palace on a Fête day.

Source Text:

'[stand-alone image]' 1862'[stand-alone image]' 1862 in Leisure Hour (William Stevens, London: Religious Tract Society), 11, 541 (10 May 1862), N/A, N/A

Illustrator:

William McConnell

Engraver:

Charles William Sheeres

Size:

232 mm x 153 mm / 9"4 x 6"1

Genre:

N/A N/A / Miscellany [periodical]

DMVI Code:

LHF007

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Title:

Reading "My Christmas Piece."—The Audience in the "Green-Room"

Source Text:

Anon., 'My Christmas Piece' 1862 in London Society (William Clowes, London: London Society), 2 (Christmas 1862), 16–23 [xmas no.]

Illustrator:

William McConnell

Engraver:

Dalziel Brothers

Size:

186 mm x 114 mm / 7"10 x 4"16

Genre:

Fiction [story] / Miscellany [periodical]

DMVI Code:

LSF056

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Title:

Recognition at the Railway Station

Source Text:

Mrs. Henry [Ellen] Wood, 'A Life's Secret' 1862 in Leisure Hour (William Stevens, London: Religious Tract Society), 11, 524 (9 Jan 1862), 17–21

Illustrator:

John Gilbert

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

153 mm x 135 mm / 6"1 x 5"10

Genre:

Fiction [novel] / Miscellany [periodical]

DMVI Code:

ALS002

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Title:

Recreations of Dr. Birch

Source Text:

Cuthbert Bede, pseud. [i.e. Edward Bradley], 'Malvern Donkeys' 1862 in Leisure Hour (William Stevens, London: Religious Tract Society), 11, 545 (7 Jun 1862), 360–64

Illustrator:

Edward Bradley [Cuthbert Bede]

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

80 mm x 60 mm / 3"5 x 2"12

Genre:

Non-fiction [sketch] / Miscellany [periodical]

DMVI Code:

LHF010

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Title:

Refills the jug his honour'd host to tend

Source Text:

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

Illustrator:

George Elgar Hicks

Engraver:

Samuel Vincent Slader

Size:

89 mm x 114 mm / 3"16 x 4"16

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP097

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Title:

Refrezzment

Source Text:

Jack Easel, pseud. [i.e. Charles Locke Eastlake], ''The Great Ex.'' 1862 in London Society (William Clowes, London: London Society), 2 (Aug 1862), 105–13

Illustrator:

George du Maurier

Engraver:

Horace Harral

Size:

95 mm x 89 mm / 3"24 x 3"16

Genre:

Non-fiction [sketch] / Miscellany [periodical]

DMVI Code:

GEx003

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Title:

Romance and a Curacy

Source Text:

Anon., 'Romance and a Curacy' 1862 in London Society (William Clowes, London: London Society), 1 (Jun 1862), 385–98

Illustrator:

John Dawson Watson

Engraver:

Dalziel Brothers

Size:

117 mm x 190 mm / 4"19 x 7"15

Genre:

Fiction [story] / Miscellany [periodical]

DMVI Code:

LSF019

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Title:

Romola Pictorial Initial [10]

Source Text:

George Eliot, 'Romola' 1863 in Cornhill Magazine (Smith, Elder & Co., London: Smith, Elder & Co.), 7 (Apr 1863), 417–40

Illustrator:

Frederic Leighton

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

51 mm x 76 mm / 2"0 x 3"0

Genre:

Fiction [novel] / Miscellany [periodical]

DMVI Code:

ROM030

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Title:

Romola Pictorial Initial [11]

Source Text:

George Eliot, 'Romola' 1863 in Cornhill Magazine (Smith, Elder & Co., London: Smith, Elder & Co.), 7 (May 1863), 553–76

Illustrator:

Frederic Leighton

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

51 mm x 76 mm / 2"0 x 3"0

Genre:

Fiction [novel] / Miscellany [periodical]

DMVI Code:

ROM032