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:

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:

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:

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:

Go, lovely rose

Source Text:

Edmund Waller, 'Go, Lovely Rose—A Song' 1645 in The Poets of the Elizabethan Age (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 79–80

Illustrator:

Julian Portch

Engraver:

Horace Harral

Size:

82 mm x 102 mm / 3"7 x 4"1

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

PEA029

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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:

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:

Jog on, jog on

Source Text:

William Shakespeare, 'Jog on, Jog on' 1564– 1616 in The Poets of the Elizabethan Age (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 35

Illustrator:

John Gilbert

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

102 mm x 76 mm / 4"1 x 3"0

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

PEA011

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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:

My mind to me a kingdom is

Source Text:

Anon., 'My Mind to me a Kingdom is' 1550– 1650 in The Poets of the Elizabethan Age (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 82–84

Illustrator:

Myles Birket Foster

Engraver:

Edmund Evans

Size:

89 mm x 70 mm / 3"16 x 2"24

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

PEA030

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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:

See the chariot at hand

Source Text:

Ben Jonson, 'Celia's Triumph' 1572– 1637 in The Poets of the Elizabethan Age (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 52–53

Illustrator:

Julian Portch

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

82 mm x 44 mm / 3"7 x 1"23

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

PEA019

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Title:

Sweet bird! That sing'st away

Source Text:

William Drummond, 'To a Nightingale' 1585– 1649 in The Poets of the Elizabethan Age (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 59

Illustrator:

Friedrich Wilhelm Keyl

Engraver:

William James Palmer

Size:

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

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

PEA021

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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:

Sweet rose!

Source Text:

George Herbert, 'Virtue' 1633 in The Poets of the Elizabethan Age (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 48

Illustrator:

Julian Portch

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

51 mm x 33 mm / 2"0 x 1"10

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

PEA017

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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