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Front Cover, The Brothers DalzielRecord of Fifty Years’ Work, A (1901)

Handsome dark blue book with gold lettering.

Keywords: book covers, colour

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Title Page, The Brothers DalzielRecord of Fifty Years’ Work, A (1901)

The Brothers Dalziel A Record of fifty years’ work in conjunction with many of the most distinguished artists of the period 1840—1890 With selected pictures by, and autograph letters from Lord Leighto [...]

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The front cover or title page of “Good Words” from 1872Record of Fifty Years’ Work, A (1901)

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 [...]

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Added: 2008-07-28

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Victorian vine-leaf page borderRecord of Fifty Years’ Work, A (1901)

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, floriated borders, leaves, vines, grapes, fruit, twigs, greyscale

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The Adoration of the Maji. By F. R. Pickersgill, R.A.Record of Fifty Years’ Work, A (1901)

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, bare feet, greyscale

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Added: 2008-12-10

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Fairy Dance.Record of Fifty Years’ Work, A (1901)

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, greyscale

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Added: 2008-07-26

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Scotland.Record of Fifty Years’ Work, A (1901)

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, greyscale

Places shown: Scotland

Added: 2006-01-08

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King Lear and Fool in a Storm.Record of Fifty Years’ Work, A (1901)

“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: shakespear, king lear, fool, people, beards, weather, night scenes, spooky, jesters, greyscale

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Lear Fantastically Dressed with FlowersRecord of Fifty Years’ Work, A (1901)

By Sir John Gilbert, R.A., P.R.W.S., By permission of Messrs. George Routledge & Sons. (That is, the caption said that in 1901 the Brothers Dalziel had permission to use the image) The drawing of King [...]

Keywords: beards, people, faces, spooky, greyscale

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The Song of BethlehemRecord of Fifty Years’ Work, A (1901)

“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, greyscale

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Their beds are made in swelling turfRecord of Fifty Years’ Work, A (1901)

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. The engraving is signed [...]

Keywords: grief, graveyards, tombs, snow, people, mourning, greyscale

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Added: 2010-02-13

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CleopatraRecord of Fifty Years’ Work, A (1901)

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, slavery, music, musical instruments, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-10-04

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Lady of Castle WindeckRecord of Fifty Years’ Work, A (1901)

“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 [...]

Keywords: poetry, knights, people, greyscale

Places shown: Windeck; Baden-Württemberg; Germany

Added: 2006-04-26

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Silent they stoodRecord of Fifty Years’ Work, A (1901)

“Silent they stood, each gazing on the dust Of kindred;—on the well-beloved ones Whom they should never lie beside in slumber.” “The Exiles of Glen Oona.”—Robert Buchanan. [picture] By William Small. [...]

Keywords: people, death, music, musical instruments, dogs, gravestones, spooky, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-10-26

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Music.—A Man at the Spinet.Record of Fifty Years’ Work, A (1901)

From “Good Words [magazine].” By J. M. Lawless. A man in eighteenth-century costume sits at the spinet (a sort of early piano) and plays from sheet music. Among our many truly gifted young artists who [...]

Keywords: music, musical instruments, spinets, people, person, keyboards, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

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Added: 2011-02-11

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Cain and Abel.Record of Fifty Years’ Work, A (1901)

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, greyscale

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Added: 2006-06-17

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Moses Views the Promised LandRecord of Fifty Years’ Work, A (1901)

“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, greyscale

Places shown: Abarim; Moab; Israel

Added: 2006-10-02

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The Old year and the NewRecord of Fifty Years’ Work, A (1901)

A jester crowns the new year as a young woman, and ushers out the old year, an old woman. This picture was obviously made for the end of 1866 and the start of 1867; it is dated 1867 in the text. It w [...]

Keywords: comics, drawings, people, new year, jesters, women, people, greyscale

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Added: 2008-12-22

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Going Home to Love in a CottageRecord of Fifty Years’ Work, A (1901)

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: winter, snow, christmas, people, animals, horses, walking, greyscale

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Added: 2008-12-10

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