Dalziel Brothers

. [ [http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Dalziel Free Dictionary] ]

[
bustle, from "Fun", 16th Nov, 1872] The Dalziel brothers worked with many important Victorian artists, producing illustrations for the burgeoning magazine and book market of the period.

Among the artists they worked with were Arthur Boyd Houghton, John Gilbert, William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and James McNeill Whistler. They cut the illustrations to Edward Lear's "Book of Nonsense" (1862); Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.

They also produced independent ventures, most notably "The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ", (Routledge, 1864), illustrated by Millais, and contributed humorous cartoons to magazines such as "Fun", which George and Edward acquired in 1865.

Until the advent of photo-mechanical processes c 1880, they were pre-eminent in their trade. Examples of their work can be seen in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

At the end of the nineteenth century they collaborated on an autobiographical summary of their work "The Brothers Dalziel, A Record of Work, 1840-1890" published by Methuen. [ [http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Dalziel-RecordOfWork/ From Old Books] ]

References

External links

* [http://www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/biog/Dalz_E.htm Biography of Edward Dalziel]
* [http://www.bl.uk/collections/early/victorian/woodengr/wooden2.html Dalziels's "Parables of Our Lord"]
* [http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Dalziel-RecordOfWork/ Excerpts from the Dalziel Brothers autobiography, with some of their engravings]
* [http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/UFDC/?c=juv&m=hrat&t=dalziel,,,&f=FC,+TX,+FC,+TI Books with engravings by the Dalziel brothers] from the University of Florida Digital Collections

Gallery

"Coral Island"

"Through the Looking Glass