DMVI | Database of Mid-Victorian Illustration

Add to lightbox

Title:

"Ah me! She was a winsome maid."

Source Text:

Anon., 'The Border Witch. An Auld-Warld Story' 1862 in London Society (William Clowes, London: London Society), 2 (Aug 1862), 181–86

Illustrator:

John Everett Millais John Frederick Taylor John Gascoigne

Engraver:

Dalziel Brothers

Size:

114 mm x 190 mm / 4"16 x 7"15

Genre:

Poetry / Miscellany [periodical]

DMVI Code:

LSP028

Add to lightbox

Title:

Ah wretch! said they, the bird to slay

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:

FEP127

Add to lightbox

Title:

Ah! then and there was hurrying to and fro

Source Text:

George Gordon, Lord Byron, 'The Night Before Waterloo' 1816 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 197–202

Illustrator:

George Housman Thomas

Engraver:

Horace Harral

Size:

84 mm x 108 mm / 3"10 x 4"8

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP115

Add to lightbox

Title:

All Adrift. A Scene on the Thames at Twickenham

Source Text:

Thomas Hood, the younger, 'Drifting' 1862 in London Society (William Clowes, London: London Society), 1 (Apr 1862), 228

Illustrator:

Alfred W. Cooper

Engraver:

Dalziel Brothers

Size:

190 mm x 118 mm / 7"15 x 4"21

Genre:

Poetry / Miscellany [periodical]

DMVI Code:

LSP014

Add to lightbox

Title:

All but yon widow'd solitary thing

Source Text:

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

Illustrator:

John Frederick Taylor

Engraver:

Thomas Bolton

Size:

96 mm x 60 mm / 3"25 x 2"12

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP032

Add to lightbox

Title:

Amazement

Source Text:

Anon., 'How I came to be Somebody's Bridesmaid' 1862 in Once a Week (Bradbury & Evans, London: Bradbury & Evans), 7 (28 Jun 1862), 24–28

Illustrator:

Adelaide Claxton

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

124 mm x 85 mm / 4"28 x 3"11

Genre:

Fiction [story] / Miscellany [periodical]

DMVI Code:

OWF024

Add to lightbox

Title:

Amidst the swains to show my book-learn'd skill

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:

96 mm x 70 mm / 3"25 x 2"24

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP027

Add to lightbox

Title:

An Adventure on a Bridge

Source Text:

Anon., 'An Adventure on a Bridge' 1862 in Leisure Hour (William Stevens, London: Religious Tract Society), 11, 554 (9 Aug 1862), 504–06

Illustrator:

[unknown]

Engraver:

John Sachs

Size:

153 mm x 95 mm / 6"1 x 3"24

Genre:

Fiction [story] / Miscellany [periodical]

DMVI Code:

LHF013

Add to lightbox

Title:

An Autumn Sabbath Walk

Source Text:

James Grahame, 'An Autumn Sabbath Walk' 1765– 1811 in English Sacred Poetry (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Routledge & Co., 1862), 217–18

Illustrator:

John Dawson Watson

Engraver:

Dalziel Brothers

Size:

83 mm x 102 mm / 3"9 x 4"1

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

ESP051

Add to lightbox

Title:

An Unwelcome Visitor

Source Text:

Mrs. Henry [Ellen] Wood, 'A Life's Secret' 1862 in Leisure Hour (William Stevens, London: Religious Tract Society), 11, 526 (23 Jan 1862), 49–53

Illustrator:

John Gilbert

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

153 mm x 133 mm / 6"1 x 5"8

Genre:

Fiction [novel] / Miscellany [periodical]

DMVI Code:

ALS004

Add to lightbox

Title:

And 'tween the curtains peep'd

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:

FEP073

Add to lightbox

Title:

And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves

Source Text:

George Gordon, Lord Byron, 'The Night Before Waterloo' 1816 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 197–202

Illustrator:

George Housman Thomas

Engraver:

Horace Harral

Size:

84 mm x 110 mm / 3"10 x 4"11

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP116

Add to lightbox

Title:

And arms and warriors fell with hollow clang

Source Text:

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

Illustrator:

Harrison William Weir

Engraver:

Edmund Evans

Size:

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

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP166

Add to lightbox

Title:

And bade his country and his child farewell

Source Text:

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

Illustrator:

George Housman Thomas

Engraver:

Horace Harral

Size:

93 mm x 80 mm / 3"21 x 3"5

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP170

Add to lightbox

Title:

And braved the stormy spirit of the Cape

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:

93 mm x 105 mm / 3"21 x 4"4

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP160

Add to lightbox

Title:

And every cottage from the plenteous store

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:

James Davis Cooper

Size:

93 mm x 111 mm / 3"21 x 4"12

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP092

Add to lightbox

Title:

And further far, where numerous herds repose

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:

[unknown]

Size:

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

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP087

Add to lightbox

Title:

And grasp'd his fingers in her palsied hand

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:

Horace Harral

Size:

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

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP068

Add to lightbox

Title:

And hamlets brown, and dim discovered spires

Source Text:

William Collins, 'Ode to Evening' 1746 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 8–11

Illustrator:

Myles Birket Foster

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

95 mm x 110 mm / 3"24 x 4"11

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP004

Add to lightbox

Title:

"And how are they all at Noningsby?"

Source Text:

Anthony Trollope, Orley Farm (Clowes & Sons 1862, London: Chapman & Hall 1862)

Illustrator:

John Everett Millais

Engraver:

Dalziel Brothers

Size:

106 mm x 170 mm / 4"6 x 6"22

Genre:

Fiction [novel] / Fiction [novel]

DMVI Code:

OF035