Skip to content Skip to navigation menu 25 April 2007 Experts in
the School of English, Communication and Philosophy have created
a unique online database of mid-Victorian illustrations. The
Database of Mid-Victorian Wood-Engraved Illustration contains
records and images of 868 literary illustrations that were
published in or around 1862, providing bibliographical and
iconographical details, as well as the ability for users to view
images at exceptionally high quality. The year 1862 was chosen
because it saw the emergence and growth of major illustrated
periodicals, including the Cornhill Magazine and Good Words, and
allowed for the inclusion of familiar illustrated works like
Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market, illustrated by her brother,
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, alongside those that are less well
known. The Database brings together for the first time
illustrations from a variety of literary works and publications
that it would be otherwise impossible to see side by side.
Although representing only a fraction