Items by Dalziel

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 biblical scene [...]

Keywords: punishments, bare feet, people, rocks, nudity, biblical scenes, death

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-06-17

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Cleopatra

A Pre-Rapaelite drawing showing Cleopatra with some round-breasted topless women, presumably slaves or attendants, standing behind her with musical instruments. Incense burns in the foreground, and a [...]

Keywords: people, women, slaves, music, musical instruments

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-10-04

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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.

Keywords: borders

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-07-28

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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.”

— Shakespeare

By Sir John Gilbert, R.A., P.R.W.S.

Keywords: people, beards, weather, night scenes, spooky, shakespeare

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-10-28

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

GOOD WORDS FOR 1872 The border was engraved by one or other of the Dalziel brothers, and I suspect for this reason was placed inside my copy of their autobiography. I also made a version of this image [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-07-28

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Fairy Dance.

Fairy Dance. By W. E. Frost, R.A. From a book of poems by the Rev. T. J. Judkin. Seven women, all barefoot and several topless, are dancing on a beach, weaving in and around one another by a natural [...]

Keywords: people, dance, spirit, bare feet, beaches, nudity

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-07-26

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The Song of Bethlehem

“On wheels of light, on wings of flame, The glorious hosts of Zion came.” “The Song of Bethlehem.” – Campbell. From “Lays of the Holy Land.” By J. R. Clayton. By permission of Messrs. James Nisbet & C [...]

Keywords: christmas, angels, bare feet, wings, religion

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-11-09

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Moses Views the Promised Land

“By Lord Leighton, P.R.A., from “Dalziel’s Bible Gallery.” By permission of Messrs. Herbert Virtue & Co. Ltd.” (p. 243) The Biblical text illustrated is: “48 And the LORD spoke unto Moses that same da [...]

Keywords: people, scholars, bare feet, beards, mountains, religion

Places shown: Abarim; Moab; Israel

Added: 2006-10-02

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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. “We gave Doyle a commission to do a Panorama of an Overland [...]

Keywords: people, musical instruments, sports, bare feet, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Scotland

Added: 2006-01-08

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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 prostrat [...]

Keywords: christmas, people, religion

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-12-10

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Going Home to Love in a Cottage

A man leads a horse through the snow, at night. He holds on to his hat with one hand. The very spot where the Snorkers held a pic-nic. Oh! didn’t the ladies cry out in one voice, “I could live in suc [...]

Keywords: snow, christmas, people, animals, horses

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-12-11

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Mad Hatter just as hastily leaves

The Mad Hatter runs out of court in his socks, carrying sandwich and (bitten) teacup.

Keywords: alice, people, humour, food, illustrations for children

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-12-04

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