"Modern Wood Engraving", from London and Westminster Review, August 1838
The London-based quarterly periodical ''Westminster Review'' began its publication in January 1824, and continued for almost a century until 1914. It merged with another publication and, for a few years in the 1830s, was known as the ''London and Westminster Review.'' Cole's pioneering article on contemporary wood-engraving outlined its wide reach which made the ''spirit and genius of a great artist [now] accessible to the thousands, or the millions, by embodying them in inexpensive and portable forms.'' The author later became an administrator and was the founding director in 1857 of the South Kensington Museum, London (later the Victoria and Albert Museum).
Artwork Details
- Title: "Modern Wood Engraving", from London and Westminster Review, August 1838
- Author: Henry Cole (British, 1808–1882)
- Dedicatee: Dawson Turner (British, Great Yarmouth 1775–1858 Old Brompton)
- Artist: Ebenezer Landells (British, Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1808–1860 West Brompton)
- Artist: John Orrin Smith (British, Colchester, Essex 1799–1843 London)
- Artist: John Jackson (British, Ovingham, Northumberland 1801–1848 London)
- Artist: Charlton Nesbit (British, Swalwell 1775–1838 London)
- Artist: W. T. Green (British, active 1837–72)
- Artist: Samuel Williams (British, Colchester, Essex 1788–1853 London)
- Artist: William Henry Powis (British, 1808–1836)
- Artist: Porret et Lallou (French)
- Artist: Seneworth et Wade (French)
- Artist: Louis-Henri Brevière (French, Forges-les-Eaux 1797–1869 Hyers)
- Artist: John Thompson (British, Manchester 1785–1866 London)
- Artist: Mary Ann Williams (British, born 1788)
- Artist: After Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (British, London 1802–1873 London)
- Artist: After William Harvey (British, Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1796–1866 Richmond, Surrey)
- Artist: After C. F. Sargent (British, 19th century)
- Artist: After Tony Johannot (French, Offenbach 1803–1852 Paris)
- Artist: After J. J. Grandville (French, Nancy 1803–1847 Vanves)
- Printer: Samuel Bentley (British, 1785–1868)
- Printer: Whitehead & Co. (London)
- Printer: Vizetelly & Co. (London)
- Date: ca. 1838–40
- Medium: Wood engraving
- Dimensions: 9 9/16 x 5 7/8 x 9/16 in. (24.3 x 15 x 1.5 cm)
- Classifications: Albums, Prints
- Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1936
- Object Number: Ref.1936.1049
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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