Good Words for 1862
Burne-Jones designed this wood engraving at the outset of his career, choosing deliberately simplified forms to demonstrate his admiration for medieval art and the work of his mentor Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The illustration accompanies Forsyth’s poetic retelling of a Norse saga and shows a young Norwegian king bidding the maiden he loves farewell as he departs on a crusade.
Artwork Details
- Title: Good Words for 1862
- Editor: Norman Macleod (British, Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland 1812–1872 Glasgow)
- Illustrator: George Henry Andrews (British, Lambeth 1816–1898 Hammersmith)
- Illustrator: Henry Hugh Armstead (British, London 1828–1905 London)
- Illustrator: Sir Edward Burne-Jones (British, Birmingham 1833–1898 Fulham)
- Illustrator: William Paton Burton (British (born India), Madras 1828–1883 Kincardineshire, Scotland)
- Illustrator: Thomas Alexander Ferguson Graham (British, Kirkwall, Orkney, Scotland 1840–1906 Edinburgh)
- Illustrator: Arthur Boyd Houghton (British (born India), Madras 1836–1875 London)
- Illustrator: William Holman Hunt (British, London 1827–1910 London)
- Illustrator: Charles Samuel Keene (British, Hornsey, Middlesex 1823–1891 London)
- Illustrator: Matthew James Lawless (Irish, Dublin 1837–1864 London)
- Illustrator: Henry Stormonth Leifchild (British, London 1823–1884 London)
- Illustrator: John MacWhirter (British, Edinburgh, Scotland 1837–1911 London)
- Illustrator: Sir John Everett Millais (British, Southampton 1829–1896 London)
- Illustrator: Thomas Morten (British, Uxbridge 1836–1866 London)
- Illustrator: John Pettie (British, Edinburgh, Scotland 1839–1893 Hastings)
- Illustrator: Frederick Augustus Sandys (British, Norwich 1829–1904 London)
- Illustrator: Charles Piazzi Smyth (British (born Italy), Naples 1819–1900 Ripon, Yorkshire)
- Illustrator: Simeon Solomon (British, London 1840–1905 London)
- Illustrator: Frank Stone (British, Manchester 1800–1859 London)
- Illustrator: Sir John Tenniel (British, London 1820–1914 London)
- Illustrator: Frederick Walker (British, London 1840–1875 Perthshire, Scotland)
- Illustrator: John Dawson Watson (British, Sedbergh, Yorkshire 1832–1892 Conwy, Wales)
- Illustrator: James McNeill Whistler (American, Lowell, Massachusetts 1834–1903 London)
- Engraver: Dalziel Brothers (British, active 1839–93)
- Publisher: Alexander Strahan & Co. , London
- Printer: Bradbury & Evans
- Date: 1862
- Medium: Illustrations: wood engraving
- Dimensions: 9 3/4 x 7 1/4 x 2 1/8 in. (24.8 x 18.4 x 5.4 cm)
- Classifications: Books, Periodicals
- Credit Line: Gift of Sinclair Hamilton, 1965
- Object Number: 65.629.3(1)
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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