The wood engravers' self-portrait : the Dalziel archive and Victorian illustration / Bethan Stevens.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stevens, Bethan (Bethan Kathleen), author.

Contributor:

Dalziel Brothers.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dalziel Brothers--History.

Dalziel Brothers.

Wood-engravers--England--History--19th century.

Wood-engravers.

Illustration of books--England--19th century.

Illustration of books.

England.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxii, 386 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2022.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. A wordless memoir: the illustrator as archivist

pt. I The Dalziel family and their `woodpecker' employees, 1839

93

2. `The print of [her] feet' (Wordsworth): the wood engravers' self-portrait

3. Ruskin's sinisterity: disjointed hands and brains, and the division of art labour

4. Barnaby Rudge and `the atmosphere of letters' (Craik): apprenticeship, education and employment

5. Ghostwriting the line of the other: Wilkie Collins's After Dark and Dalziel's freelance engravers

6. `This midnight forger' (Trollope): signatures, authorship and relations between engravers and draughtspeople

pt. II Medium and technique at Dalziel Brothers

7. `Off with her head!' (Carroll): execution, technical violence and the discipline of visual cultures

8. `These many ingenious adaptations of photography' (Dalziel): photography and wood engraving, from Eadweard Muybridge to Julia Margaret Cameron

9. `A peculiar brilliancy of black' (DeVinne): the colour of monochrome, and Thomas Dalziel's The May Queen

10. Speed, print, news

11. Conclusion: Greedy rats.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 374-380) and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

1526156660

9781526156662

OCLC:

1276778801