The Dial, No. 2
Not on view
"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 (housed in a brown cloth cover with a leather spine and gold lettering, containing parts one to five, 1889,1892,1898,1896-1897). It contains the following illustrations:
1. Frontispiece: "The Palace Burns and Behemoth", wood engraving, Reginald Savage.
2. "Shepherd in the Mist", lithograph, C. Shannon, p. 8.
3. "Sister of the Woods", wood engraving, L. Pissarro, p. 15.
4. "Repeated Bend," lithograph, C. Shannon, p. 16.
5. "With Viol and Flute," lithograph by C. Shannon, p. 17.
6. "My Hair Is Filled with the Drops of the Night," wood engraving, C. Ricketts, p. 22.
