English Illustration 'The Sixties': 1855-70 With Numerous Illustrations by Ford Madox Brown: A. Boyd Houghton: Arthur Hughes: Charles Keene: M. J. Lawless: Lord Leighton, P.R.A.: Sir J. E. Millais, P.R.A.: G. Du Maurier: J. W. North, R.A.: G. J. Pinwell: Dante Gabriel Rossetti: W. Small: Frederick Sandys: J. Mcneill Whistler: Frederick Walker, A.R.A.: and Others

Although space forbids biographical notice, even in the briefest form, of all the artists mentioned in the preceding pages, and it would be folly to summarise in a few hasty sen...

THE CORNHILL MAGAZINE, which began in 1860 with Thackeray as editor, showed from the very first that the aim of the Magazine was to keep the level of its pictures equal to that...

With 1865 we reach the height of the movement--this and the following year being of all others most fertile in books illustrated by the best representative men. It saw Rossetti'...

To draw up a complete list, with the barest details of title, artist, author, and publisher of the books in the period with which this volume is concerned would be unnecessary,...

In 1870 we find another change, this time to a page that may be a quarto technically, but instead of the square proportions we usually connect with that shape, it seems more aki...

Song_ (p. 434), a small boy in a Spanish turban swinging. Volume vi. houses a dozen: _Schwerting of Saxony_ (p. 43), _The Battle of the Thirty_ (p. 155), _The Child of Care_ (pp...

Among the books dated 1860, or issued in the autumn of that year, are more elaborately illustrated editions of popular poets--all, as a rule, in the conventional quarto, or in w...

In devoting another chapter to periodicals one must insist upon their relative importance; for the time and money expended on them in a single year would balance possibly the co...

Once a Week.--On the second of July 1859 appeared the first number of _Once a Week_, 'an illustrated miscellany of Literature, Art, Science, and Popular Information.' Despite th...

The borderland between the hallowed past and the matter-of-fact present is rarely attractive. It appeals neither to our veneration nor our curiosity. Its heroes are too recent t...

That Thornbury's _Legendary Ballads_ (dated 1876) should be regarded as a most important volume in a collection of the 'sixties' is not odd, when you find that its eighty-one il...

The more you study the position of illustrators during the last forty years, the more you are inclined to believe that they owe their very existence, as a class, to the populari...

PUNCH.--It is impossible to overlook the famous weekly that from its own pages could offer a fairly representative group of the work of any decade since it was established; a pa...

Although it would be retraversing beaten paths to trace the illustrator of the sixties back to Bewick, or to still earlier progenitors in Dürer or the Florentines, there can be...

BROWN, FORD MADOX, Prisoner of Chillon, _Willmott's Poets of the Nineteenth Century_ (Routledge), 104 Elijah and the Widow's Son, _Bible Gallery_ (Routledge), 150 Joseph's Coat,...