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Dalziels' Bible Gallery

Print
1881 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Wood engraving depicting a scene from the Bible. Each mount lettered with title and name of artist responsible for original drawing. Most plates lettered 'Dalziel Sc.' and some lettered with artists' initials or monograms and dated.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Titles
  • Dalziels' Bible Gallery (assigned by artist)
  • Abram And The Angel (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Wood engraving
Brief description
Print entitled 'Abram And The Angel', after a drawing by Sir F. Leighton, from a volume entitled 'Dalziels' Bible Gallery', consisting of 62 plates after drawings by various artists, engraved by the Dalziel Brothers. Great Britain, 1881.
Physical description
Wood engraving depicting a scene from the Bible. Each mount lettered with title and name of artist responsible for original drawing. Most plates lettered 'Dalziel Sc.' and some lettered with artists' initials or monograms and dated.
Dimensions
  • Size of covers height: 43.7 cm
  • Width: 34cm
Dimensions taken from departmental notes
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, Art Fund, Shell International and the Friends of the V&A
Production
This volume is No.446 of a limited edition of 1,000.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
SP.183:7

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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