{"product_id":"the-wood-engravers-self-portrait-the-dalziel-archive-and-victorian-illustration-9781526156662","title":"The Wood Engravers' Self-Portrait: The Dalziel","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe wood engravers’ self-portrait\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eAlice \u003c\/i\u003ebooks, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction Approaching engravings: medium and the parasite\u003cbr\u003e1 A wordless memoir: the illustrator as archivist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart I The Dalziel family and their ‘woodpecker’ employees, 1839-1893\u003cbr\u003e2 ‘The print of [her] feet’ (Wordsworth): the wood engravers’ self portrait\u003cbr\u003e3 Ruskin’s sinisterity: disjointed hands and brains, and the division of art labour\u003cbr\u003e4 \u003ci\u003eBarnaby Rudge\u003c\/i\u003e and ‘the atmosphere of letters’ (Craik): apprenticeship, education and employment\u003cbr\u003e5 Ghostwriting the line of the other: Wilkie Collins’s \u003ci\u003eAfter Dark\u003c\/i\u003e, and Dalziel’s freelance engravers\u003cbr\u003e6 ‘This midnight forger’ (Trollope): signatures, authorship, and relations between engravers and draughtspeople\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart II Medium and technique at Dalziel Brothers\u003cbr\u003e7 ‘Off with her head!’ (Carroll): execution, technical violence, and the discipline of visual culture\u003cbr\u003e8 ‘These many ingenious adaptations of photography’ (Dalziel): photography and wood engraving, from Eadweard Muybridge to Julia Margaret Cameron\u003cbr\u003e9 ‘A peculiar brilliancy of black’ (DeVinne): the colour of monochrome, and Thomas Dalziel’s \u003ci\u003eThe May Queen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e10 Speed, print, news\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003e11 Greedy rats\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041021264215,"sku":"9781526156662","price":63.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526156662.jpg?v=1750948633","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-wood-engravers-self-portrait-the-dalziel-archive-and-victorian-illustration-9781526156662","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}