DMVI | Database of Mid-Victorian Illustration

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Title:

And with this basket on his arm, the lad

Source Text:

William Wordsworth, 'Michael: A Pastoral Poem' 1800 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 326–48

Illustrator:

George Housman Thomas

Engraver:

William Luson Thomas

Size:

102 mm x 130 mm / 4"1 x 5"4

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP177

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Title:

And, as a hare, whom hounds and horns pursue

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:

[unknown]

Size:

103 mm x 46 mm / 4"2 x 1"26

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP028

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Title:

Arm! Arm! it is—it is—the cannon's opening roar!

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 111 mm / 3"10 x 4"12

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP114

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Title:

Around their home the storm-pinch'd cattle lows

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:

Edmund Evans

Size:

93 mm x 100 mm / 3"21 x 3"30

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP105

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Title:

As down she knelt for heaven's grace and boon

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:

FEP072

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Title:

As I came up the valley, whom think ye I should see

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:

103 mm x 89 mm / 4"2 x 3"16

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP181

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Title:

As idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean

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 111 mm / 3"24 x 4"12

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP128

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Title:

As ocean-wrecks illuminate the storm

Source Text:

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

Illustrator:

Edward Duncan

Engraver:

William James Linton

Size:

102 mm x 70 mm / 4"1 x 2"24

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP168

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Title:

As rocks resist the billows and the sky

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:

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

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP054

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Title:

At gate or gap, to stem or turn the flock

Source Text:

William Wordsworth, 'Michael: A Pastoral Poem' 1800 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 326–48

Illustrator:

Henry Warren

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

98 mm x 114 mm / 3"27 x 4"16

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP176

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Title:

At length burst in the argent revelry

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:

FEP065

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Title:

At summer eve, when Heaven's aerial bow

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:

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

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP148

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Title:

Awakening up, he took her hollow lute

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 64 mm / 3"16 x 2"17

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP075

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Title:

Before her goes the merry minstrelsy

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:

FEP123

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Title:

Beneath that large old oak, which near their door

Source Text:

William Wordsworth, 'Michael: A Pastoral Poem' 1800 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 326–48

Illustrator:

Henry Warren

Engraver:

Edmund Evans

Size:

98 mm x 114 mm / 3"27 x 4"16

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP175

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Title:

Bereavement

Source Text:

John Keble, 'Bereavement' 1846 in English Sacred Poetry (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Routledge & Co., 1862), 291–93

Illustrator:

John Dawson Watson

Engraver:

Dalziel Brothers

Size:

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

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

ESP064

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Title:

Beside the bed where parting life was laid

Source Text:

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

Illustrator:

Richard Redgrave

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

97 mm x 74 mm / 3"26 x 2"29

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP036

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Title:

Birds in spring

Source Text:

Michael Drayton, 'Birds in Spring' 1563– 1631 in The Poets of the Elizabethan Age (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 45–47

Illustrator:

Edmund Morison Wimperis

Engraver:

William James Palmer

Size:

95 mm x 63 mm / 3"24 x 2"15

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

PEA016

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Title:

Blame not my lute

Source Text:

Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Blame not my Lute' 1503– 1542 in The Poets of the Elizabethan Age (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 9–10

Illustrator:

Julian Portch

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

76 mm x 38 mm / 3"0 x 1"16

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

PEA002

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Title:

Blow, blow, thou winter wind

Source Text:

William Shakespeare, 'Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind' 1564– 1616 in The Poets of the Elizabethan Age (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 36

Illustrator:

Edmund Morison Wimperis

Engraver:

William James Palmer

Size:

89 mm x 51 mm / 3"16 x 2"0

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

PEA012