A weeping wife
Illustration for the poem: A Wife. Depicts a woman weeping in front of an open book (she is unhappily married and looking back at an old diary in which she expressed romantic hopes)
April (OAW)
April landscape with seasonal plants and animals. Illustration for the series "The Months" in Once a Week magazine, Volume 2, page 327.
Chicken Graftings, Hunterian Museum
From an article about the Hunterian Museum in Once a Week magazine, volume 3, page 628.
Cupid's Ring
"Dan Cupid" playfully captures a girl. Once a Week magazine, volume 3, page 528.
A Score of Years Ago - Charles Keene
Wood engraving illustration for the poem "A Score of Years Ago" by Eliza L. Watson. Once a Week magazine, Volume 3, page 416.
Alexander Pope on the Thames
Illustration for a magazine article, depicting Alexander Pope being rowed on the Thames, in his sedan chair which he has had lifted into the boat. Once a Week magazine, volume 3, page 109.
Bronze Ornament from Uriconium
Engraving of a Roman-British bronze ornament found in excavations at the site of Uriconium. Once a Week magazine, volume 2, page 43.
Après (Walker)
Illustration for the poem "Après." Depicts a man whose wife is dead looking at his daughter. Once a Week magazine, Volume 2, page 330.
Confessors Buildings at Westminster (Hine)
Illustration of the Confessor's Buildings at Westminster Abbey in 1860, for a magazine article. Once a Week magazine, volume 2, page 591.
An Agreeable Monk
Illustration for the story "An Agreeable Monk." Once a Week magazine, volume 3, page 301.
Castle of Dunluce (OAW)
Ruins of the castle of Dunluce (Ireland). Woodcut for a magazine story, arranged to wrap around the text. Once a Week magazine, volume 2, page 568.
Lead Cock from Uriconium
Engraving of a lead cock found in excavations at the Roman-British site of Uriconium. Once a Week magazine, volume 2, page 43.
Alpine Glacier (Skelton)
A glacier in Switzerland. Woodcut for the article "Guides and Glaciers," Once a Week magazine, volume 2, page 513.
Evan Harrington - 18 - Idle at Beckley
Illustration for Chapter 19 of "Evan Harrington". The Countess de Saldar spends an afternoon in fashionable langueur. She has asked to borrow Rose's album (the book where Victorian friends would write messages... More
A Border Song - Public domain book illustration
Illustration, depicting a cross-border raid in which Scots carry off English cattle, which was accompanied by a poem titled "A Border Song."
A Day with the Christchurch Drag
Illustration for a memoir of life as an Oxford student: the students are drag hunting, and have trespassed onto the land of a squire who is very irate. Left: squire confronts student; right: the man who was la... More
A Gossip about Organs (OAW) - transparent
Title and illustration for the article "A Gossip about Organs." The illustration is captioned "Anglo-Saxon organ, after Strutt."
A Head of Hair for Sale - John Everett Millais
Illustration for the sentimental story "A Head of Hair for Sale." A poverty-stricken young woman is forced to sell her hair in hopes of getting a doctor for her sick mother (she's too late). Once a Week magazi... More
An Honest Arab - Public domain book illustration
Illustration for a sentimental magazine story; depicts a small ragged boy in Scotland, having been given a large coin by the gentleman on the right, returning with change while the gentleman in the center look... More
An old maid's mistake - Public domain book illustration
Illustration for the poem "The Mistake", depicting an old maid, dressed up to meet a visitor she thought was a suitor, finding out that he's just a tradesman on business
Camping in Nova Scotia (Hine) - Public domain book illustration
Depicts a fishing trip to a lake in Nova Scotia in the 1850s, illustration of a magazine reminiscence. One of the three campers is fishing and another is building a fire.
Carnival at Rome (OAW) - Public domain book illustration
Woodcut for a magazine article, written but not illustrated by T. R. Macquoid, depicting the revels in a street of Rome during the Carnival. The signature "G. Thomas" is probably the obscure illustrator George Thomas.
Castle of Dunluce (Transparent)
Castle of Dunluce, with a transparent background, for use on a magazine page.
Castle of Klamm (Hine) - Public domain engraving
Engraving of the Castle of Klamm, from a magazine article.
Chateau of Ehrenhausen (Hine) - Public domain engraving
Engraving of the Chateau of Ehrenhausen, from a magazine article.
Church of Marie Strassengel (Hine)
Engraving of the Church of Marie Strassengel, from a magazine article.
Coastal Defences 1860 (1) - Public domain book illustration
From the article "Our Second Line of Defences" in Once a Week, volume 3, page 546.
Coastal Defences 1860 (2) - Public domain book illustration
From the article "Our Second Line of Defences" in Once a Week, volume 3, page 603.
Deaf White Cat - Public domain engraving
This engraving illustrates an article about the fact that pure white, blue-eyed cats are usually deaf. It depicts two cats on a wall, with a dog jumping and barking below. The white-spotted cat hisses at the d... More
Divorce a Vinculo - Battling Barrister
Initial letter for the story "Divorce a Vinculo": The battle of the barristers as a boxing-match
Divorce a Vinculo - Case According to the Petitioner
Illustration for the satirical story "Divorce a Vinculo." Mrs. Barber's most serious allegation against her husband: he cut off her hair. This is the scene, savage, according to her telling of it.
Divorce a Vinculo - Angel of the House
Initial letter for the satrical story "Divorce a vinculo," literalizing the idea that "women are angels."
Divorce a Vinculo - Case According to the Respondent
Illustration for the satirical story "Divorce a Vinculo." Mrs. Barber's most serious allegation against her husband: he cut off her hair. This is the scene, romantic, according to the way her husband might tell it.
Divorce a Vinculo - Cupid in Court
Decorative chapter-head art from the satirical story "Divorce a Vinculo." Depicts a lawyer dragging a crying cupid into court.
Divorce a Vinculo - Examining the Head
Illustration for the satirical story "Divorce a Vinculo." Mrs. Barber shows her legal team evidence of her husband's cruelty: a scar on her head.
Divorce a Vinculo - Love Letters
Illustration for the story "Divorce a Vinculo": Love letters being read aloud in court
Divorce a Vinculo - On Mr. Lamb's Arm
Illustration for the satirical story "Divorce a Vinculo." Mrs. Barber, veiled, enters the courtroom on the arm of her solicitous solicitor Mr. Lamb.
Divorce a Vinculo - The Cotton-Tops
Illustration of a satirical story, "Divorce a vinculo, or, The Terrors of Sir Cresswell Cresswell": A barrister holds up stockings that are evidence in a divorce trial.
Divorce a Vinculo - The Courtroom
Illustration for the satirical story "Divorce a Vinculo," depicting the courtroom at the start of the divorce trial. The Petitioner, Mrs. Barber, weeps; the elderly judge in charge, at right, is hard of hearin... More
Divorce a Vinculo - Savage Conduct
Illustration for the satirical story "Divorce a Vinculo." Mrs. Barber's telling of a quarrel with her husband about the fashionably huge crinoline she had bought.
Divorce a Vinculo - The Barrister and the Dove
Initial letter for the satirical story "Divorce a Vinculo." Illustrates the passage where Mrs. Barber, when introduced to the barrister for her case, "flapped her dove's pinions a little too hard" but "Dr. Dod... More
Divorce a Vinculo - Mme Lareine
Illustration for the satirical story "Divorce a vinuculo." On the left is Mrs. Barber, who is about to go to court to sue for divorce from her husband, and her solicitor Mr. Lamb. On the right is Mme. Léocadie... More
Divorce a Vinculo - The Enraged Father
Illustration for the satirical story "Divorce a Vinculo." The story according to Mrs. Barber: Her father becomes enraged when told that she, at 17 years old, has secretly married.
Divorce a vinculo - The two Misses Barber
Illustration of a satirical story, "Divorce a vinculo, or, The Terrors of Sir Cresswell Cresswell": Mrs. Barber alleges that her husband's sisters (maiden ladies) treated her cruelly: here, they painfully put ... More
Divorce a Vinculo - The Entrance
Illustration for the satirical story "Divorce a Vinculo," depicting the entrance to the divorce trials. "Enter Westminster Hall by the great door, and the first indication that you are near the Grand Stand wil... More
Evan Harrington - 06 - Mother and Son
Illustration of chapter VII of "Evan Harrington": Evan has arrived home for his father's funeral. His mother, Mrs. Mel, tells him that his father died with huge debts and that the only honorable thing for the ... More
Evan Harrington - 04 - Andrew Cogglesby's Sympathy
Illustration for chapter V of the novel "Evan Harrington": After returning home and hearing of his father's death, Evan is kindly and sympathetically greeted by his brother-in-law Andrew Cogglesby at Andrew's house.
Evan Harrington - 11 - Drinkers at the Green Dragon
Illustration for Chapter 11 of Evan Harrington (Once a Week magazine, volume 2, page 287). Tom Cogglesby (center rear) is celebrating his birthday at the Green Dragon inn by paying for unlimited refreshments f... More
Evan Harrington - 16 - Idle at the Green Dragon
Illustration for Chapter 17 of Evan Harrington (Once a Week magazine, volume 2, page 403). Jack Raikes spends the morning in gloomy immobility outside the Green Dragon inn (as Evan Harrington is arriving in th... More
Fair Drinking - Public domain book illustration
Illustrates the poem "Fair Drinking" which argues that, contrary to Pope's poem, all levels of society should taste the Pierian Spring (i.e. be educated) as much as they're able even if it's "a little learning"
George du Maurier - Faristan and Fatima (2) - George Du Maurier
Illustration for the poem "Faristan and Fatima: An Oriental Legend" by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Once a Week, Volume 3, page 379. Depicts the scene where Faristan (right), searching for his diappeared wife, finds ... More
Fenestrelle Fortress (Skelton) - Public domain engraving
Engraving of the alpine Fenestrelle Fortress, which guards the access to Turin. Image from the 1850s, when the territory belonged to the duchy of Savoy.
Florinda (Lawless) - Public domain engraving
Illustration for the poem "Florinda." Depicts a woman whose beloved married another, sunk in total despair. Engraved by Joseph Swain from an original by Matthew James Lawless.
Garrison Point 1860 - Public domain book illustration
From the article "Our Second Line of Defences" in Once a Week, volume 3, page 547.
I'll Never Forget That Dear - Public domain book illustration
Illustration for the comic poem "I'll Never Forget That, Ma'am" by the Irish songwriter Samuel Lover. The young lady has invited her swain to her house--encouragingly, he thinks, but in reality, she just inten... More
Injured Hawk - Public domain book illustration
Illustrates an article by Sarah Stickney Ellis about wild animals she has known: this is a hawk with a broken beak that she nursed back to health.
Lace-leaf plant (OAW) - Public domain book illustration
The lace-leaf plant, Aponogeton madagascariensis (or Ouvirandra fenestralis), as first cultivated at Kew garden. Woodcut for a magazine article.
Lay of the Lady and the Hound - Public domain book illustration
Illustration for the medieval-set poem "The Lay of the Lady and the Hound," depicting a knight in armor, an angry-looking lady, and a praying friar.
Monkey and Cat - Public domain engraving
Engraving depicting a tame monkey belonging to Sarah Stickney Ellis, holding a cat affectionately
Monkey on the Bed - Public domain book illustration
Depicts Sarah Stickney's tame monkey, which has broken into the bedroom of her guest and is sitting on the bed aggressively, while the guest huddles terrified under the covers
OAW Vol III title page
Title page of Once a Week Vol. III, with an ornamental border by Joseph Swain
Once a Week Series 1 Volume II title page
Title page of series 1, Volume II of Once a Week, with ornamental border by Thomas Robert Macquoid
Pearl Wearers and Pearl Winners
Illustration for the article "Oysters and Pearls."
Physic Initial Letter
Initial letter for the story "Physic: A Fortune."
Point Battery (OAW) - Public domain book illustration
From the article "Our Second Line of Defences" in Once a Week, volume 3, page 602.
Pope Pius IX (OAW) - Public domain portrait engraving
Portrait of Pope Pius IX, engraved by Joseph Swain from an unknown original (photograph?), published in the magazine "Once a Week"
Prayer at Sea - Public domain book illustration
Illustration accompanying the poem "God Save Our Men at Sea," depicting a sailor praying on deck during a storm.
Raven (Joseph Wolf) - Public domain book illustration
Raven hunching down with feathers fluffed (an appeasement display) with sticks scattered around it. Woodcut as illustration for an article in "Once a Week" magazine. This is Sarah Stickney Ellis's tame raven,... More
Rubber printing (original size)
Image from an article on a technique of enlarging or reducing images for lithographic printing, by inking a rubber sheet. Uses for demonstration an illustration by Charles Keene that had previously been publis... More
Rubber printing (enlarged) - Public domain portrait print
Image from an article on a technique of enlarging or reducing images for lithographic printing, by inking a rubber sheet. Uses for demonstration an illustration by Charles Keene that had previously been publis... More
Rubber printing (reduced) - Public domain portrait print
Image from an article on a technique of enlarging or reducing images for lithographic printing, by inking a rubber sheet. Uses for demonstration an illustration by Charles Keene that had previously been publis... More
Sam Bentley's Christmas (1) - Public domain book illustration
Illustration for the serial novella "Sam Bentley's Christmas," Once a Week magazine, Volume 3, page 687.
Ship Armour Diagram 1 (OAW Volume 3)
Figure 1 for an article by W. Bridges Adams about armoured warships. Once a Week magazine, Volume 3, page 398.
Ship Armour Diagram 2 (OAW Volume 3)
Figure 2 for an article by W. Bridges Adams about armoured warships. Once a Week magazine, Volume 3, page 398.
St. Anne's Lake Transylvania by Hine
engraving of St. Anne's Lake, Transylvania
Star Chamber door (Hine) - Public domain book illustration
1860 illustration of the door of the Star Chamber at Westminster Abbey, for a magazine article. Once a Week magazine, volume 2, page 594.
Swanka (OAW) - Public domain engraving
Illustration for the burlesque story "Swanka!" by Frederick Gale. Sailors held captive by Don Whiskerando Skittleballos have turned the tables on him in his bedchamber and prepare to flog him with a curtain co... More
Swans Nesting (Wolf) - Public domain engraving
Engraving depicting a nesting pair of swans, one sitting on eggs in the background, the other in the water in front, raising its wings aggressively at intruders. To the right, in the water, a coot(?)
Swimming an icy river 1860 - Public domain book illustration
Illustration for "A Night on the Ice". Depicts a horse, with a woman on its back, attempting to swim across a river full of chunks of floating ice, and a man in a soldier's hat swimming alongside. It is dark a... More
Temujin - William Holman Hunt - Public domain book illustration
Illustration for the poem "Temujin," Once a Week magazine, volume 3, page 630. The hero, pursued by Chinese soldiers, has been hidden by the heroine in her hut under the heap of cotton she's spinning.
The Bridal of Galtrim (2) - Public domain book illustration
One of two illustrations for the poem "The Bridal of Galtrim" about a woman whose husband was killed in battle on her wedding day. Depicts the bride leaning on another woman for comfort with sorrowful robed fi... More
The Bridal of Galtrim (1) - Public domain book illustration
One of two illustrations for the poem "The Bridal of Galtrim" about a woman whose husband was killed in battle on her wedding day. Depicts a dead man in armor with others gathered around him (only his feet visible).
The Ghost's Night-Cap - Public domain book illustration
Illustration for the story "The Ghost's Nightcap," depicting a skeleton in a nightcap standing in a bedroom with a shocked man in a nightshirt in the background
The Head of Bran (Millais) - Public domain book illustration
Illustration for George Meredith's poem "The Head of Bran," on a topic from Celtic mythology. Warriors carrying the head to London where it protects Britain.
The Herberts of Elfdale (5) - Public domain book illustration
Illustration for The Herberts of Elfdale by Catherine Crowe; Once a Week magazine, volume 3, page 508.
The Poor Woman's Hovel - Public domain book illustration
Illustration for the story "Peasant Proprietorship;" here, the self-reliant peasant Austin meets his neighbor, a very poor woman taking care of a disabled child. Her cottage is tiny and tumbledown but clean, w... More
The Pythagorean - Virginia's death
One of three engravings illustrating The Pythagorean (A Tale of the First Century) by A. Stewart Harrison. The two lovers are imprisoned; Virginia has died and her lover has gone mad. Depicts them chained toge... More
The Pythagorean - Imprisonment - Public domain scan / engraving
One of three engravings illustrating The Pythagorean (A Tale of the First Century) by A. Stewart Harrison. The lovers have been imprisoned with nothing but an ever-decreasing trickle to drink from.
The Pythagorean- Lovers meeting - Public domain engraving
One of three engravings illustrating The Pythagorean (A Tale of the First Century) by A. Stewart Harrison. Depicts two people in classical garb: on the steps of a building, a woman hands a man a bowl (he has a... More
The Silver Cord (2) - Public domain book illustration
Illustration for the serial novel The Silver Cord by Shirley Brooks. Once a Week magazine, volume 3, page 561.
The Silver Cord (1) - Public domain book illustration
Illustration for the serial novel The Silver Cord by Shirley Brooks. Once a Week magazine, volume 3, page 533.
The Silver Cord (3) - Public domain book illustration
Illustration for the serial novel The Silver Cord by Shirley Brooks. Once a Week magazine, volume 3, page 589.
The Silver Cord (4) - Public domain book illustration
Illustration for the serial novel The Silver Cord by Shirley Brooks. Once a Week magazine, volume 3, page 617.
The Silver Cord (5) - Public domain book illustration
Illustration for the serial novel The Silver Cord by Shirley Brooks. Once a Week magazine, volume 3, page 645.
The Silver Cord (6) - Public domain book illustration
Illustration for the serial novel The Silver Cord by Shirley Brooks. Once a Week magazine, volume 3, page 673.
The Silver Cord (7) - Public domain book illustration
Illustration for the serial novel The Silver Cord by Shirley Brooks. Once a Week magazine, volume 3, page 701.
Torda Gorge Transylvania by Hine
Engraving by Henry George Hine, depicting the Turda George (a.ka. Cheile Turzii or Tordai-hasadék) in Transylvania. It was first published in the magazine Once a Week in 1860. Deutsch: Stich von Henry George ... More
Trout Fishing in Nova Scotia (Hine)
Illustration for a memoir of a three-day trout fishing trip in Nova Scotia.
Two Orchids (Hine) - Public domain botanical illustration
Illustration for an article about two orchids of interest to English flower enthusiasts: the dove orchid or espiritu santo, Peristeria elata, and the butterfly orchid, Oncidium (now Psychopsis) papilio.
Vase by Triqueti (OAW) - Public domain engraving
Engraving of a vase decorated with ivory carvings by Henri de Triqueti, published Once a Week magazine, volume 3, page 163.