The Dial, No. 4
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. "Delia," lithograph, C. Shannon, p. 1
2. "A Study of Mice," after a silverpoint drawing by C.Shannon, p. 4
3. "Atalanta," lithograph, C. Shannon, p. 9
4. "Le Petit Chaperon Rouge," woodcut, L. Pissarro, p. 12
5. "The Death of the Dragon," woodcut, T. Sturge Moore, p. 16
6. "Baby Giants," woodcut, T. Sturge Moore, p. 20
7.An illustration to "The King's Quair" after C. Ricketts, p. 22
8 Two pages of The Vale Type (with Initial), designed by C. Ricketts, p. 24
9. "Wotan and Logi Depart in Search of the Reingold," after a pen drawing by R. Savage, p. 32
