The Dial, No. 1
"The Dial" was an art journal established in 1889. Five issues appeared by 1897. Its founders and editors were artistic partners, and close friends for more than fifty years--Ricketts an art critic and historian as well as a painter, sculptor, and theater and jewelry designer, and Shannon a painter, portraitist, book illustrator and lithographer. They also ran the Vale Press from 1894.
This number has a brown paper cover and is adorned with the following prints:
1. Cover vignette (a sundial in an overgrown walled garden), lithograph, C. Shannon.
2. Frontispiece vignette (a butterfly in a flower), C. Ricketts.
3. AA - Illustration to "The Great Worm" (a long-haired female nude and worm-like monster), color lithograph, C. Ricketts, executed by M. and N. Hanhart.
4. Title vignette to "Puvis de Chauvannes" (a nude woman holding a candle in one hand and a palette in another), lithograph, Ricketts.
5. AB - "Return of the Prodigal", woodcut, C. Shannon
6. Title vignette to "A Simple Story" (figures by a roaring fire), lithograph, C. Ricketts.
7. AC - "The Miracle of the Roses," photolithograph after a watercolor or painting by Reginald Savage.
8. Title vignette to "The Goncourts" (a female nude with a mirror seated above a patch of turnips or radishes), lithograph, C. Ricketts.
9. Title vignette: The Great Worm, lithograph (a female nude and worm-like monster), lithograph.
10. AD - "The Queen of Sheba", photolithograph, after a watercolor or painting by C. Shannon.
11. Vignette (Venus on an open shell near waves), lithograph, C. Ricketts.
12. AE - Illustration to "The Great Worm", Etching, C. Ricketts
13. Title vignette to "A Glimpse of Heaven" (a body lying amidst roses), lithograph, C. Ricketts.
14. AF - Illustration to "A Glimpse of Heaven", woodcut, C. Shannon
15. AG - "Circe the Enchantress", photolithograph after a watercolor by C. Shannon.
16. Chapter vignette to "The Cup of Happiness" (a lightly draped femal looking down at a snake-like monster), lithograph, C. Ricketts.
17: Title vignette to "Sensations" (a female nude standing in water before a mirror), lithograph, C. Ricketts.
18: Back cover vignette (woman with long hair looking at a butterfly fluttering over a sundial), lithograph, C. Ricketts.
This number has a brown paper cover and is adorned with the following prints:
1. Cover vignette (a sundial in an overgrown walled garden), lithograph, C. Shannon.
2. Frontispiece vignette (a butterfly in a flower), C. Ricketts.
3. AA - Illustration to "The Great Worm" (a long-haired female nude and worm-like monster), color lithograph, C. Ricketts, executed by M. and N. Hanhart.
4. Title vignette to "Puvis de Chauvannes" (a nude woman holding a candle in one hand and a palette in another), lithograph, Ricketts.
5. AB - "Return of the Prodigal", woodcut, C. Shannon
6. Title vignette to "A Simple Story" (figures by a roaring fire), lithograph, C. Ricketts.
7. AC - "The Miracle of the Roses," photolithograph after a watercolor or painting by Reginald Savage.
8. Title vignette to "The Goncourts" (a female nude with a mirror seated above a patch of turnips or radishes), lithograph, C. Ricketts.
9. Title vignette: The Great Worm, lithograph (a female nude and worm-like monster), lithograph.
10. AD - "The Queen of Sheba", photolithograph, after a watercolor or painting by C. Shannon.
11. Vignette (Venus on an open shell near waves), lithograph, C. Ricketts.
12. AE - Illustration to "The Great Worm", Etching, C. Ricketts
13. Title vignette to "A Glimpse of Heaven" (a body lying amidst roses), lithograph, C. Ricketts.
14. AF - Illustration to "A Glimpse of Heaven", woodcut, C. Shannon
15. AG - "Circe the Enchantress", photolithograph after a watercolor by C. Shannon.
16. Chapter vignette to "The Cup of Happiness" (a lightly draped femal looking down at a snake-like monster), lithograph, C. Ricketts.
17: Title vignette to "Sensations" (a female nude standing in water before a mirror), lithograph, C. Ricketts.
18: Back cover vignette (woman with long hair looking at a butterfly fluttering over a sundial), lithograph, C. Ricketts.
Artwork Details
- Title: The Dial, No. 1
- Artist and publisher: Charles Haslewood Shannon (British, Lincolnshire 1863–1937 Richmond) , Chelsea
- Artist and publisher: Charles Ricketts (British, Geneva 1866–1931 London)
- Artist: Reginald Savage (British, Colchester, Essex 1862–1937)
- Lithographer: M. & N. Hanhart, London
- Date: 1889
- Medium: Illustrations: woodcuts, lithographs, photomechanical process
- Dimensions: 12 7/8 × 10 7/16 in. (32.7 × 26.5 cm)
- Classifications: Books, Periodicals
- Credit Line: Gift of Burton Emmett, 1924
- Object Number: 24.35.1
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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