DMVI | Database of Mid-Victorian Illustration

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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:

Dearly Beloved

Source Text:

Anon., 'How I came to be Somebody's Bridesmaid' 1862 in Once a Week (Bradbury & Evans, London: Bradbury & Evans), 7 (28 Jun 1862), 24–28

Illustrator:

Adelaide Claxton

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

124 mm x 85 mm / 4"28 x 3"11

Genre:

Fiction [story] / Miscellany [periodical]

DMVI Code:

OWF023

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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:

Effie Blount's Explanation

Source Text:

John Saunders, 'Face to Face' 1862 in Illustrated London News [Christmas Supplement] (George Leighton, London: George Leighton), 41, 1180 (20 Dec 1862), 677–79

Illustrator:

[unknown]

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

238 mm x 172 mm / 9"12 x 6"25

Genre:

Fiction [story] / Newspaper

DMVI Code:

ILN010

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Title:

Esther Blyth, Queen of the Gipsies

Source Text:

Anon., 'Border Gypsies' 1862 in Once a Week (Bradbury & Evans, London: Bradbury & Evans), 6 (12 Apr 1862), 431–33

Illustrator:

[unknown]

Engraver:

Joseph Swain

Size:

67 mm x 108 mm / 2"20 x 4"8

Genre:

Non-fiction [sketch] / Miscellany [periodical]

DMVI Code:

OWF012

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Title:

Experientia Docet

Source Text:

Anon., '"Experientia Docet"' 1862 in Once a Week (Bradbury & Evans, London: Bradbury & Evans), 6 (22 Mar 1862), 364

Illustrator:

Hablot Knight Browne [Phiz]

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

127 mm x 76 mm / 5"0 x 3"0

Genre:

Poetry / Miscellany [periodical]

DMVI Code:

OWP011

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Title:

Eyebright Frontispiece

Source Text:

Anon., Eyebright. A Tale from Fairy Land (C. J. Jacob 1862, Basingstoke: C. J. Jacob 1862)

Illustrator:

Charles Samuel Keene

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

98 mm x 120 mm / 3"27 x 4"23

Genre:

Fiction [children's literature] / Children's Literature

DMVI Code:

EB001

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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 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:

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:

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:

"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, 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

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Title:

Going to the Scale

Source Text:

Anon., 'The Blue Riband of the Turf; or, Society at the London Carnival' 1862 in London Society (William Clowes, London: London Society), 2 (Jul 1862), 79–88

Illustrator:

Alfred W. Cooper

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

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

Genre:

Non-fiction [sketch] / Miscellany [periodical]

DMVI Code:

BRT003