DMVI | Database of Mid-Victorian Illustration

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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 India

Source Text:

William Cox Bennett, 'From India' 1820– 1862 in Poems (Savill & Edwards, 1862, London: Routledge & Co., 1862), 78–80

Illustrator:

John Dawson Watson

Engraver:

Dalziel Brothers

Size:

82 mm x 127 mm / 3"7 x 5"0

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

WBP001

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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:

Frontispiece—The Lent Jewels

Source Text:

Richard Chenevix Trench, 'The Lent Jewels. A Jewish Tale' 1851 in English Sacred Poetry (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Routledge & Co., 1862), 346–47

Illustrator:

William Holman Hunt

Engraver:

Dalziel Brothers

Size:

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

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

ESP001

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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:

Gabriel's Marriage

Source Text:

Wilkie Collins, 'The Nun's Story of Gabriel's Marriage' 1862 in After Dark (Smith, Elder & Co., 1862, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1862), 227–72

Illustrator:

Arthur Boyd Houghton

Engraver:

Dalziel Brothers

Size:

89 mm x 140 mm / 3"16 x 5"16

Genre:

Fiction [story] / Fiction [story collection]

DMVI Code:

AD004

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Title:

Gambling Spas [1]

Source Text:

Anon., 'Gambling Spas—Homburg' 1862 in London Society (William Clowes, London: London Society), 2 (Dec 1862), 492–98

Illustrator:

[unknown]

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

38 mm x 59 mm / 1"16 x 2"10

Genre:

Non-fiction [sketch] / Miscellany [periodical]

DMVI Code:

GSH001

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Title:

Gambling Spas [2]

Source Text:

Anon., 'Gambling Spas—Homburg' 1862 in London Society (William Clowes, London: London Society), 2 (Dec 1862), 492–98

Illustrator:

[unknown]

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

116 mm x 76 mm / 4"18 x 3"0

Genre:

Non-fiction [sketch] / Miscellany [periodical]

DMVI Code:

GSH002

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Title:

Gambling Spas [3]

Source Text:

Anon., 'Gambling Spas—Homburg' 1862 in London Society (William Clowes, London: London Society), 2 (Dec 1862), 492–98

Illustrator:

[unknown]

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

111 mm x 58 mm / 4"12 x 2"9

Genre:

Non-fiction [sketch] / Miscellany [periodical]

DMVI Code:

GSH003

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Title:

Gambling Spas [4]

Source Text:

Anon., 'Gambling Spas—Homburg' 1862 in London Society (William Clowes, London: London Society), 2 (Dec 1862), 492–98

Illustrator:

[unknown]

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

58 mm x 68 mm / 2"9 x 2"22

Genre:

Non-fiction [sketch] / Miscellany [periodical]

DMVI Code:

GSH004

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Title:

George Rescuing His Grandfather

Source Text:

William J. Stewart, 'Lord Riverdale's Repentance' 1862 in Illustrated London News [Christmas Supplement] (George Leighton, London: George Leighton), 41, 1180 (20 Dec 1862), 661–63

Illustrator:

Alfred Hunt

Engraver:

Mason Jackson

Size:

238 mm x 200 mm / 9"12 x 7"28

Genre:

Fiction [story] / Newspaper

DMVI Code:

ILN001

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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:

Go and Come

Source Text:

Dorothy [Dora] Greenwell, 'Go and Come' 1862 in Good Words (T. Constable, Edinburgh: Strahan & Co., London: Strahan & Co.), 3, 1 (Jan 1862), 31–32

Illustrator:

William Holman Hunt

Engraver:

Dalziel Brothers

Size:

108 mm x 140 mm / 4"8 x 5"16

Genre:

Poetry / Miscellany [periodical]

DMVI Code:

GWP001

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Title:

"Go to work! No! Hold out for the nine hours, Darby," said Sam Shuck

Source Text:

Mrs. Henry [Ellen] Wood, 'A Life's Secret' 1862 in Leisure Hour (William Stevens, London: Religious Tract Society), 11, 537 (12 Apr 1862), 225–29

Illustrator:

John Gilbert

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

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

Genre:

Fiction [novel] / Miscellany [periodical]

DMVI Code:

ALS015

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Title:

Go, lovely rose

Source Text:

Edmund Waller, 'Go, Lovely Rose—A Song' 1645 in The Poets of the Elizabethan Age (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 79–80

Illustrator:

Julian Portch

Engraver:

Horace Harral

Size:

82 mm x 102 mm / 3"7 x 4"1

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

PEA029

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Title:

Go, soul, thy body's guest

Source Text:

Sir Walter Raleigh, 'The Lie' 1552– 1618 in The Poets of the Elizabethan Age (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 41–44

Illustrator:

Julian Portch

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

76 mm x 102 mm / 3"0 x 4"1

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

PEA015