DMVI | Database of Mid-Victorian Illustration

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Title:

View of the Fife Coast from Wardie

Source Text:

Alexander Smith, 'Wardie—Spring-Time' 1862 in Good Words (T. Constable, Edinburgh: Strahan & Co., London: Strahan & Co.), 3, 5 (May 1862), 272–73

Illustrator:

William Paton Burton

Engraver:

Dalziel Brothers

Size:

125 mm x 85 mm / 4"29 x 3"11

Genre:

Poetry / Miscellany [periodical]

DMVI Code:

GWP010

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Title:

Von Bauhr's Dream

Source Text:

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

Illustrator:

John Everett Millais

Engraver:

Dalziel Brothers

Size:

106 mm x 163 mm / 4"6 x 6"13

Genre:

Fiction [novel] / Fiction [novel]

DMVI Code:

OF009

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Title:

Waiting

Source Text:

Cecil Spencer, 'Waiting. A Tale' 1862 in Once a Week (Bradbury & Evans, London: Bradbury & Evans), 7 (8 Nov 1862), 533–41

Illustrator:

M. L. Hughes

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

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

Genre:

Fiction [story] / Miscellany [periodical]

DMVI Code:

OWF035

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Title:

Warwolf

Source Text:

George Walter Thornbury, 'The Death of King Warwolf. A Norse Legend' 1862 in Once a Week (Bradbury & Evans, London: Bradbury & Evans), 7 (30 Aug 1862), 266

Illustrator:

Frederick Sandys

Engraver:

Joseph Swain

Size:

114 mm x 140 mm / 4"16 x 5"16

Genre:

Poetry / Miscellany [periodical]

DMVI Code:

OWP025

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Title:

What a Comfortable Home Became During the Strike

Source Text:

Mrs. Henry [Ellen] Wood, 'A Life's Secret' 1862 in Leisure Hour (William Stevens, London: Religious Tract Society), 11, 539 (26 Apr 1862), 257–60

Illustrator:

John Gilbert

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

153 mm x 136 mm / 6"1 x 5"11

Genre:

Fiction [novel] / Miscellany [periodical]

DMVI Code:

ALS017

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Title:

What Befell me at the Assizes

Source Text:

H. F. Waring, 'What Befell me at the Assizes' 1862 in Once a Week (Bradbury & Evans, London: Bradbury & Evans), 6 (8 Feb 1862), 191–96

Illustrator:

Matthew James Lawless

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

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

Genre:

Fiction [story] / Miscellany [periodical]

DMVI Code:

OWF005

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Title:

What Brought Austin Back to Ketterford

Source Text:

Mrs. Henry [Ellen] Wood, 'A Life's Secret' 1862 in Leisure Hour (William Stevens, London: Religious Tract Society), 11, 531 (27 Feb 1862), 129–33

Illustrator:

John Gilbert

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

157 mm x 135 mm / 6"6 x 5"10

Genre:

Fiction [novel] / Miscellany [periodical]

DMVI Code:

ALS009

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Title:

What Came of Our Christmas Party

Source Text:

Anon., 'Asking a Blessing. A Christmas Story' 1862 in London Society (William Clowes, London: London Society), 2 (Christmas 1862), 72–80 [xmas no.]

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:

LSF052

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Title:

"What if I tell you a secret?" said Lawyer Gwinn

Source Text:

Mrs. Henry [Ellen] Wood, 'A Life's Secret' 1862 in Leisure Hour (William Stevens, London: Religious Tract Society), 11, 534 (20 Mar 1862), 177–81

Illustrator:

John Gilbert

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

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

Genre:

Fiction [novel] / Miscellany [periodical]

DMVI Code:

ALS012

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Title:

What Mrs. Gillies, the Housekeeper, Knows about It

Source Text:

Anon., 'The Forged Will' 1862 in Leisure Hour (William Stevens, London: Religious Tract Society), 11, 557 (30 Aug 1862), 545–48

Illustrator:

John Gilbert

Engraver:

Thomas Robinson

Size:

153 mm x 130 mm / 6"1 x 5"4

Genre:

Fiction [story] / Miscellany [periodical]

DMVI Code:

FW006

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Title:

What Sent Me to Sea

Source Text:

William Hansard, 'What Sent Me to Sea' 1862 in Good Words (T. Constable, Edinburgh: Strahan & Co., London: Strahan & Co.), 3, 5 (May 1862), 263–71

Illustrator:

John Pettie

Engraver:

Dalziel Brothers

Size:

111 mm x 148 mm / 4"12 x 5"26

Genre:

Fiction [story] / Miscellany [periodical]

DMVI Code:

GWF004

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Title:

What We did at the Sea-Side—Nothing!

Source Text:

Anon., 'Runs by Rail: To Brighton and Back' 1862 in London Society (William Clowes, London: London Society), 2 (Nov 1862), 403–13

Illustrator:

Charles Altamont Doyle

Engraver:

Joseph Swain

Size:

118 mm x 168 mm / 4"21 x 6"20

Genre:

Non-fiction [sketch] / Miscellany [periodical]

DMVI Code:

LSF043

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Title:

When icicles hang by the wall

Source Text:

William Shakespeare, 'When Icicles Hang' 1564– 1616 in The Poets of the Elizabethan Age (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 38–39

Illustrator:

John Gilbert

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

95 mm x 76 mm / 3"24 x 3"0

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

PEA014

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Title:

When looking westward I beheld a something in the sky

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:

FEP130

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Title:

When May is in his prime

Source Text:

Thomas Watson, 'Sonnet [When May is in his prime]' 1582 in The Poets of the Elizabethan Age (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 19–20

Illustrator:

Edmund Morison Wimperis

Engraver:

William James Palmer

Size:

76 mm x 89 mm / 3"0 x 3"16

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

PEA005

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Title:

When o'er each field the flaming sunbeams play'd

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:

86 mm x 95 mm / 3"12 x 3"24

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP096

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Title:

When that strange shape drove suddenly betwixt us and the Sun

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 Duncan

Engraver:

Horace Harral

Size:

95 mm x 108 mm / 3"24 x 4"8

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP131

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Title:

When Venus throned in clouds of rosy hue

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:

Thomas Bolton

Size:

95 mm x 102 mm / 3"24 x 4"1

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP152

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Title:

Where are Her Father's Bones?

Source Text:

Anon., '"Where are Her Father's Bones?"' 1862 in Once a Week (Bradbury & Evans, London: Bradbury & Evans), 7 (6 Sep 1862), 304–08

Illustrator:

Charles Green

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

114 mm x 127 mm / 4"16 x 5"0

Genre:

Fiction [story] / Miscellany [periodical]

DMVI Code:

OWF030

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Title:

Where the poor houseless shivering female lies

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:

102 mm x 67 mm / 4"1 x 2"20

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP047