The Dial, No. 1
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 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.
