DMVI | Database of Mid-Victorian Illustration

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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

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Title:

Bright as the pillar rose at Heaven's command

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:

95 mm x 57 mm / 3"24 x 2"8

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP153

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Title:

But tell her, when I'm gone, to train the rose-bush that I set

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:

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

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP189

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Title:

But the long pomp, the midnight masquerade

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:

97 mm x 43 mm / 3"26 x 1"22

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP044

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Title:

Came forth with wishes and with farewell prayers

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:

FEP178

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Title:

Can storied urn, or animated bust

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:

George Housman Thomas

Engraver:

Horace Harral

Size:

105 mm x 72 mm / 4"4 x 2"27

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP010

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Title:

Christmas time

Source Text:

George Wither, 'Christmas' 1588– 1667 in The Poets of the Elizabethan Age (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 71–75

Illustrator:

Edmund Morison Wimperis

Engraver:

William James Palmer

Size:

76 mm x 57 mm / 3"0 x 2"8

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

PEA026

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Title:

Come live with me

Source Text:

Christopher Marlowe, 'The Passionate Shepherd to his Love' 1600 in The Poets of the Elizabethan Age (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 21–22

Illustrator:

Edmund Morison Wimperis

Engraver:

William James Palmer

Size:

102 mm x 64 mm / 4"1 x 2"17

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

PEA006

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Title:

Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd

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:

89 mm x 40 mm / 3"16 x 1"18

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP040

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Title:

Cupid and Campaspe

Source Text:

John Lyly, 'Cupid and Campaspe' 1553– 1606 in The Poets of the Elizabethan Age (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 26

Illustrator:

[unknown]

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

51 mm x 22 mm / 2"0 x 0"28

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

PEA007

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Title:

Deposits seed, and bids new harvests 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:

W. T. Green

Size:

93 mm x 114 mm / 3"21 x 4"16

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP098

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Title:

Down the wide stairs a darkling way they found

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:

Thomas Bolton

Size:

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

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP079

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Title:

Down where yon anchoring vessel spreads the sail

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 32 mm / 3"5 x 1"8

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP053

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Title:

Drown'd all in Rhenish and the sleepy mead

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:

FEP078

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Title:

Fair daffodils

Source Text:

Robert Herrick, 'To Daffodils' 1648 in The Poets of the Elizabethan Age (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 63–64

Illustrator:

Julian Portch

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

51 mm x 41 mm / 2"0 x 1"20

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

PEA023

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Title:

Favourite English Poems Title-Page

Source Text:

'[stand-alone image]' 1862'[stand-alone image]' 1862 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), N/A, N/A

Illustrator:

[unknown]

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

63 mm x 55 mm / 2"15 x 2"5

Genre:

N/A N/A / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP001

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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