DMVI | Database of Mid-Victorian Illustration

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Title:

And ice, mast high, came floating by, as green as emerald

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 114 mm / 3"24 x 4"16

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP124

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Title:

And on the bay the moonlight lay

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:

Myles Birket Foster

Engraver:

Edmund Evans

Size:

92 mm x 102 mm / 3"20 x 4"1

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP140

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Title:

And pats the jolly sides of those he loves

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:

Edmund Evans

Size:

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

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP107

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Title:

And pluck'd his gown to share the good man's smile

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 63 mm / 4"1 x 2"15

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP037

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Title:

And proffer up to Heav'n the warm request

Source Text:

Robert Burns, 'The Cotter's Saturday Night' 1786 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 61–71

Illustrator:

Charles West Cope

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

84 mm x 96 mm / 3"10 x 3"25

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP058

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Title:

And strolls the Crusoe of the lonely fields

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:

Samuel Vincent Slader

Size:

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

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP102

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Title:

And the lone cuckoo sighs along the vale

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:

[unknown]

Size:

76 mm x 63 mm / 3"0 x 2"15

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP164

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Title:

And the swallow 'ill come back again with summer o'er the wave

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:

89 mm x 70 mm / 3"16 x 2"24

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP187

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Title:

And the twain were casting dice

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:

FEP132