DMVI | Database of Mid-Victorian Illustration

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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 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

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Title:

Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound

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:

97 mm x 76 mm / 3"26 x 3"0

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP043

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Title:

Where woods and groves in solemn grandeur rise

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:

William Luson Thomas

Size:

93 mm x 113 mm / 3"21 x 4"14

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP081

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Title:

Whereat his horse did snort, as he

Source Text:

William Cowper, 'John Gilpin' 1782 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 72–85

Illustrator:

George Housman Thomas

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

105 mm x 120 mm / 4"4 x 4"23

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP061

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Title:

While legion'd fairies paced the coverlet

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:

FEP070

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Title:

While resignation gently slopes the way

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 42 mm / 3"5 x 1"21

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP030

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Title:

Whilst far abroad the fox pursues his prey

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:

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

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP103

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Title:

Whilst her fond husband strove to lend relief

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:

102 mm x 63 mm / 4"1 x 2"15

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP052

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Title:

Who hath not paused, while Beauty's pensive eye

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:

95 mm x 78 mm / 3"24 x 3"2

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP162

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Title:

Wi' kindly welcome Jenny brings him ben

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:

85 mm x 97 mm / 3"11 x 3"26

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP056

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Title:

Wild flowers in the valley for other hands than mine

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:

68 mm x 78 mm / 2"22 x 3"2

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP193

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Title:

With how sad steps, O Moon

Source Text:

Sir Philip Sidney, 'Sonnet [With how sad steps, O Moon]' 1591 in The Poets of the Elizabethan Age (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 14–15

Illustrator:

Edmund Morison Wimperis

Engraver:

William James Palmer

Size:

102 mm x 111 mm / 4"1 x 4"12

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

PEA004

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Title:

With joy she views her plenteous reeking 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:

George Elgar Hicks

Engraver:

Samuel Vincent Slader

Size:

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

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP086

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Title:

With my cross-bow I shot the Albatross

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:

FEP126

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Title:

With saunt'ring step he climbs the distant stile

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:

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

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP109

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Title:

You meaner beauties of the night

Source Text:

Sir Henry Wotton, 'To the Queen of Bohemia' 1568– 1639 in The Poets of the Elizabethan Age (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 54–55

Illustrator:

Edmund Morison Wimperis

Engraver:

William James Palmer

Size:

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

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

PEA020

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Title:

You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear

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:

FEP180