The Dial, No. 3
Not on view
"The Dial" was an art journal established in 1889 that numbered five issues issued through 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: "Centaurs," woodcut, after R. Savage by C. Ricketts, p. 1
2. "A Romantic Landscape," lithograph, C. Shannon, p. 4
3. "Phaedra and Ariadne"– "And You Will See Ariadne Gazing at her Sister Who Is Hanging by a Rope," from Pausanias, reproduction of a pen drawing by C. Ricketts, p. 8
4. "White Nights," lithograph, C. Shannon, p. 12
5. "Pan Mountain," woodcut, T. Sturge Moore, p. 16
6. "In the Thebaid," illustration to a poem by A. Beardsley, reproduction of ink drawing by C. Ricketts, p. 18
7. "An Intruder," lithograph, C. Shannon, p. 20
8. "Solitude," woodcut, L. Pissarro, p. 24
9. "The Topmost Apple" from "Daphnis and Chloe," wood engraving, C. Shannon, p. 26
10. "The Lotos Eaters," reproduction of a pen drawing by R. Savage, p. 28
