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:

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:

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:

I with my angle would rejoice

Source Text:

Izaak Walton, 'The Angler's Wish' 1653 in The Poets of the Elizabethan Age (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 77–78

Illustrator:

Edmund Morison Wimperis

Engraver:

William James Palmer

Size:

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

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

PEA028

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Title:

Like as a ship

Source Text:

Edmund Spenser, 'Sonnet [Like as a ship]' 1552– 1599 in The Poets of the Elizabethan Age (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 27–28

Illustrator:

Edmund Morison Wimperis

Engraver:

William James Palmer

Size:

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

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

PEA008

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Title:

O day most calm, most bright

Source Text:

George Herbert, 'Sunday' 1633 in The Poets of the Elizabethan Age (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 49–51

Illustrator:

Edmund Morison Wimperis

Engraver:

William James Palmer

Size:

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

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

PEA018

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Title:

Poets of the Elizabethan Age Title-Page

Source Text:

'[stand-alone image]' 1862'[stand-alone image]' 1862 in The Poets of the Elizabethan Age (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), N/A, N/A

Illustrator:

Edmund Morison Wimperis

Engraver:

William James Palmer

Size:

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

Genre:

N/A N/A / Poetry

DMVI Code:

PEA001

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Title:

Sweet country life

Source Text:

Robert Herrick, 'A Country Life' 1648 in The Poets of the Elizabethan Age (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 64–68

Illustrator:

Edmund Morison Wimperis

Engraver:

William James Palmer

Size:

79 mm x 95 mm / 3"4 x 3"24

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

PEA024

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Title:

The breath of great-eyed kine

Source Text:

Robert Herrick, 'A Country Life' 1648 in The Poets of the Elizabethan Age (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 64–68

Illustrator:

Edmund Morison Wimperis

Engraver:

William James Palmer

Size:

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

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

PEA025

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Title:

The shepherd's life

Source Text:

Phineas Fletcher, 'Happiness of the Shepherd's Life' 1582– 1650 in The Poets of the Elizabethan Age (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 61–62

Illustrator:

Edmund Morison Wimperis

Engraver:

William James Palmer

Size:

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

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

PEA022

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Title:

The soote season

Source Text:

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, 'Spring' 1517– 1547 in The Poets of the Elizabethan Age (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 11–12

Illustrator:

Edmund Morison Wimperis

Engraver:

William James Palmer

Size:

102 mm x 114 mm / 4"1 x 4"16

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

PEA003

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Title:

The wenches with their wassail bowls

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:

89 mm x 95 mm / 3"16 x 3"24

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

PEA027

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Title:

The wrathful winter

Source Text:

Thomas Sackville, Earl of Dorset, 'Winter. From the Induction to a Mirrour for Magistrates' 1536– 1608 in The Poets of the Elizabethan Age (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 31–32

Illustrator:

Edmund Morison Wimperis

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

95 mm x 51 mm / 3"24 x 2"0

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

PEA009

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Title:

Under the greenwood tree

Source Text:

William Shakespeare, 'Under the Greenwood Tree' 1564– 1616 in The Poets of the Elizabethan Age (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 37

Illustrator:

Edmund Morison Wimperis

Engraver:

William James Palmer

Size:

82 mm x 57 mm / 3"7 x 2"8

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

PEA013

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Title:

When May is in his prime

Source Text:

Thomas Watson, 'Sonnet [When May is in his prime]' 1582 in The Poets of the Elizabethan Age (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 19–20

Illustrator:

Edmund Morison Wimperis

Engraver:

William James Palmer

Size:

76 mm x 89 mm / 3"0 x 3"16

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

PEA005

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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:

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