There were eight Dalziel brothers: William Dalziel (the eldest) whose art work was chiefly devoted to heraldic and occasional ornamental decoration for manuscript work, and was also a still-life painter; Robert Dalziel, a portrait painter; Alexander Dalziel a draughtsman, who died of consumption at the age of 23; George Dalziel, a pupil of Charles Gray (an engraver on wood); Edward Dalziel (1817 – 1905), who joined his younger brother George; John Dalziel, who was also an egraver, but who also died young; Thomas Dalziel (1823-1906), who was trained in copperplate engraving, but who later joined George and Edward in engraving on wood; The youngest, Davison Dalziel, “applied himself very successfully to commerce.”
The book is primarily by George and Edward Dalziel.
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Front Cover, The Brothers Dalziel
Handsome dark blue book with gold lettering. |
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Title Page, The Brothers Dalziel
The Brothers Dalziel [more...]
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Scotland.
From “An overland journey to the Great Eghibition of 1851” By Richard Doyle. Published for the Brothers Dalziel by Messrs. Chapman & Hall. [more...] |
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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...] |
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Lear Fantastically Dressed with Flowers
By Sir John Gilbert, R.A., P.R.W.S., By permission of Messrs. George Routledge & Sons. [more...] |
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The Song of Bethlehem
“On wheels of light, on wings of flame, The glorious hosts of Zion came.” [more...]
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Lady of Castle Windeck
“Messrs. D. Appleton, of New York, requested us to provide a set of illustrations to the Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant. They wished for a large number by Birket Foster, who at that time was at the very height of his popularity for black and white work. Out of something like one hundred pictures he gave us thirty-six, all of which are beautiful [...] [more...] |
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Cain and Abel.
A naked man lies dead in the background, his genitals conveniently hidden by a cloth. In the foreground, a man wearing only an animal-skin scurries barefoot away through the rocks. The [...] [more...] |
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Moses Views the Promised Land
“By Lord Leighton, P.R.A., from “Dalziel’s Bible Gallery.” [more...] |
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