Record of Fifty Years’ Work, A (page 2/3)

Front Cover, The Brothers Dalziel

Handsome dark blue book with gold lettering.

Title Page, The Brothers Dalziel

The Brothers Dalziel [more...]

The front cover or title page of “Good Words” from 1872

GOOD WORDS
FOR 1872 [more...]

Victorian vine-leaf page border

A border for a title-page, made from vine leaves with fruits. The engraving has a lot of small dots that might be ink spots from overly fast or careless printing, or might be part of the design. [more...]

The Adoration of the Maji. By F. R. Pickersgill, R.A.

The Adoration of the Magi, or Maji, or Wise Men, or th eThree Kings (the Gospels do not say that they were kings, nor that there were three of them) is a popular subject; here two of them are prostrate on the ground, barefoot, while a third waits. Mary might havea Jewish [...] [more...]

Fairy Dance.

Fairy Dance. By W. E. Frost, R.A.
From a book of poems by the Rev. T. J. Judkin. [more...]

Scotland.

From “An overland journey to the Great Eghibition of 1851”
By Richard Doyle. Published for the Brothers Dalziel by Messrs. Chapman & Hall.

“We gave Doyle a commission to do a Panorama of an Overland Journey to the Great Exhibition of 1851, which it was intended should be published before, or immediately after, the opening day. We need hardly say the drawings were not done to time; in fact, the last of them was not finished until just on the closing of the Exhibition, consequently the publication was a dead failure.

It is greatly to be regretted that Doyle did not see his way to complete this work at the date agreed upon, and while the great excitement about the Exhibition was at fever height, for the characteristic humour which is so peculiarly his own, and so cleverly depicted in the various Nationalities forming the Panorama, must have secured for the work a very extensive circulation, and thereby have added greatly to his reputation.” (pp. 59 – 61)

The drawing here shows five scotsmen wearing tartan; one is dancing; the next is blowing the bagpipes; the next stands barefoot and barelegged ready [more...] [$]

King Lear and Fool in a Storm.

“Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!
You cataracts, and hurricanoes, spout
Till you have drench’d our steeples.” [more...]

Lear Fantastically Dressed with Flowers

By Sir John Gilbert, R.A., P.R.W.S., By permission of Messrs. George Routledge & Sons. [more...]

The Song of Bethlehem

“On wheels of light, on wings of flame,
The glorious hosts of Zion came.” [more...]

Their beds are made in swelling turf

A child, a girl in a long billowy dress perhaps, kneels in a graveyard in the winter snow, perhaps in moonlight. She holds a shovel, covering a grave perhaps. She is grieving. [more...]