The Dial, No. 5
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: "The Infancy of Bacchus," lithograph, C. Shannon
2. "December," woodcut, C. Shannon, p. 4
3. "The Dressing Room" from the "Stone Bath Series," lithograph, C. Shannon, p. 9
4. "Pan Island," woodcut, T. Sturge Moore, p. 12
5. "Centaur with a Bough" and "The Hare Making Circles in her Mirth," woodcut, T. Sturge Moore, p. 16
6. "The Vision of King James the First of Scotland," after a design by. C. Ricketts, p. 20
7. "Pan Hailing Psyche Across the River" after C. Ricketts, p. 24
8. "Ruth, Orpah and Naomi" and "Ruth The Gleaner," woodcut, L. Pissarro, p. 26
