The Wood Engravers' Self Portrait

The Dalziel Archive and Victorian illustration

By: Bethan Stevens

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Hardcover | 14 June 2022

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410 Pages

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24.0 x 17.0 x 3.0

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The Wood Engravers' Self Portrait tells the story of the image-making firm Dalziel Brothers, investigating and interpreting a unique archive from the British Museum.

The study takes a creative-critical approach to illustration, alongside detailed investigation of print techniques and history. Five siblings ran the wood engraving firm Dalziel Brothers: George, Edward, Margaret, John and Thomas Dalziel. Prospering through five decades of work, Dalziel became the major capitalist image makers of Victorian Britain.

This book, based on AHRC-funded research, outlines the achievements of these remarkable siblings and uncovers the histories of some of the 36 unknown artisan employees that worked alongside them. Dalziel Brothers made works of global importance: illustrations to Lewis Carroll's Alice books, novels by Charles Dickens, and landmark Pre-Raphaelite prints, as well as other, brilliant works that are published here for the first time since their initial creation.

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