Croquet dress 1863
Woman dressed for playing croquet, 1863. From an article in Once a Week magazine, Volume 9, page 637. The author is unknown because not credited in the magazine.
The Angel and the Infant - Lorenz Frolich (transparent)
Illustration for the poem "L'ange et l'enfant" ("The Angel and the Infant") by Jean Reboul. With space for the poem text. Once a Week magazine, volume 5, page 350. Transparent background for Wikisource use.
Bird Haunts and Nature Memories - Frontispiece
Frontispiece of Bird Haunts and Nature Memories, depicting a noctule bat (Nyctalus noctula), by Archibald Thorburn
Bird Haunts and Nature Memories - p 157
Photograph from Coward's Bird Haunts and Nature Memories, 1922.
Bird Haunts and Nature Memories - p 191
Photograph from Coward's Bird Haunts and Nature Memories, 1922.
Bird Haunts and Nature Memories - p 113
Photograph from Coward's Bird Haunts and Nature Memories, 1922.
Bird Haunts and Nature Memories - p 110
Photograph from Coward's Bird Haunts and Nature Memories, 1922.
Bird Haunts and Nature Memories - p 152
Photograph from Coward's Bird Haunts and Nature Memories, 1922.
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Photograph from Coward's Bird Haunts and Nature Memories, 1922.
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Photograph from Coward's Bird Haunts and Nature Memories, 1922.
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Photograph from Coward's Bird Haunts and Nature Memories, 1922.
Bird Haunts and Nature Memories - p 87
Photograph from Coward's Bird Haunts and Nature Memories, 1922.
Bird Haunts and Nature Memories - p 103
Photograph from Coward's Bird Haunts and Nature Memories, 1922.
Bird Haunts and Nature Memories - p 1
Photograph from p 1 of Bird Haunts and Nature Memories
Bird Haunts and Nature Memories - p 127
Photograph from Coward's Bird Haunts and Nature Memories, 1922.
Bird Haunts and Nature Memories - p 4
Photograph from p 4 of Bird Haunts and Nature Memories, depicting an Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula arctica).
Bird Haunts and Nature Memories - p 15
Photograph from p 15 of Bird Haunts and Nature Memories, depicting a Common Tern (Sterna hirundo) at its nest, with a chick.
Bird Haunts and Nature Memories - p 73
Photograph from p 73 of Bird Haunts and Nature Memories
Bird Haunts and Nature Memories - p 36
Photograph from p 36 of Bird Haunts and Nature Memories
Bird Haunts and Nature Memories - p 76b
Photograph from Coward's Bird Haunts and Nature Memories, 1922.
Bird Haunts and Nature Memories - p 198
Photograph from Coward's Bird Haunts and Nature Memories, 1922.
Bird Haunts and Nature Memories - p 22
Photograph from p 22 of Bird Haunts and Nature Memories
Bird Haunts and Nature Memories - p 55
Photograph from p 55 of Bird Haunts and Nature Memories
Bird Haunts and Nature Memories - p 121
Photograph from Coward's Bird Haunts and Nature Memories, 1922.
Bird Haunts and Nature Memories - p 94
Photograph from Coward's Bird Haunts and Nature Memories, 1922.
Bird Haunts and Nature Memories - p 33
Photograph from p 33 of Bird Haunts and Nature Memories
Porta Nigra 1863 (OAW)
1863 wood engraving of the Porta Nigra in Treves (Trier), from a travel article in Once a Week magazine (volume 8, page 278).
Mont Orgueil (Crane)
Illustration for the story "The Castle of Mont Orgueil" in Once a Week magazine, volume 9, page 713. As a teenager, the future King Charles II flees from his bedchamber in the castle of Mont Orgueil (Jersey) a... More
Amalfi (OAW)
View of Amalfi for a magazine article, Once a Week volume 9, page 167.
The Centurion's Escape - Charles Green
Wood engraving illustration for the story "The Centurion's Escape" in Once a Week magazine, volume 8, page 589. An adventure story dramatizing the conquest of Egypt by Rome: Roman officers and Egyptian priests... More
The Little Lovers
Illustration for the poem "The Little Lovers" in Once a Week magazine, Volume 9, page 724.
The Mermaid (Green)
Woodcut. Illustration for the poem "The Mermaid" by Walter Thornbury, in Once a Week magazine, Volume 10, page 295. The mermaid traps the knight in a deadly binding with a lock of her hair around his head.
Tannhäuser (Millais)
Illustration for Lady Duff Gordon's translation of the ballad "Tannhäuser." Tannhäuser has decided that he wants nothing more to do with Venus and the pagan women although they beg him to stay with them.
A Woman's Tragedy (4)
Illustration for part 4 of "Santa: A Woman's Tragedy" as serialized in Once a Week, volume 7, page 281. Here, Santa is spending a delightful evening with the little girl she thinks of like a daughter (the girl... More
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)
A Woman's Tragedy (1)
Illustration for part 1 of "Santa, or A Woman's Tragedy" as serialized in Once a Week, volume 7, page 225.
A Woman's Tragedy (2)
Illustration for part 2 of "Santa: A Woman's Tragedy" as serialized in Once a Week magazine, volume 7, page 253. Here, Santa (in black) is by a dying man, who has been treating her very cruelly (and will never... More
A Woman's Tragedy (5bw)
Woodcut illustration for part 5 of the serial novella Santa, or A Woman's Tragedy. Here, Santa overhears a man she thought was a friend speaking dismissively of her and planning to treat her cruelly. Once a We... More
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.
A Childs History of England - 1900 - Plate 3
Plate from 1900 edition of A Child's History of England by Charles Dickens. Unattributed.
A Childs History of England - 1900 - Frontispiece
Plate from 1900 edition of A Child's History of England by Charles Dickens. Unattributed.
A Childs History of England - 1900 - Plate 6
Plate from 1900 edition of A Child's History of England by Charles Dickens. Unattributed.
A Childs History of England - 1900 - Plate 1
Plate from 1900 edition of A Child's History of England by Charles Dickens. Unattributed.
A Childs History of England - 1900 - Plate 2
Plate from 1900 edition of A Child's History of England by Charles Dickens. Unattributed.
A Child's History of England and Miscellaneous Pieces - Title Page
Title page from Charles Dickens' A Child's History of England and Miscellaneous Pieces (1900)
A Childs History of England - 1900 - Plate 4
Plate from 1900 edition of A Child's History of England by Charles Dickens. Unattributed.
A Childs History of England - 1900 - Plate 7
Plate from 1900 edition of A Child's History of England by Charles Dickens. Unattributed.
A Childs History of England - 1900 - Plate 8
Plate from 1900 edition of A Child's History of England by Charles Dickens. Unattributed.
A Childs History of England - 1900 - Plate 5
Plate from 1900 edition of A Child's History of England by Charles Dickens. Unattributed.
Clyte (Tenniel)
Illustration for the poem "Clyte"; wooducut in Once a Week magazine, Volume 9, page 154.
Compensation - W Harry Rogers
Illustrated title for the poem "Compensation," which is a Tasmanian colonist's regrets for the flowers of home (daisies, shown in the clouds) but compensated by native irises Diplarrena moraea. Once a Week, Vo... More
The Silver Cord (8)
Illustration from "Once a Week" magazine, 29 December 1860
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.
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Ornament from West Irish folk-tales and romances by William Larminie
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A Valentine (Browne)
Illustration for the poem "A Valentine" in Once a Week magazine, volume 6, page 252. Cigar-smoke vision: : "Worth" offers the heart that "Rank," "Birth," "Wealth," "Fashion" and "Genius" do not.
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.
The Art of German Cooking and Baking - Frontispiece
Frontispiece from The Art of German Cooking and Baking (1922).
Irish plays and playwrights (IA irishplaysplaywr00weygrich) (page 93 c...
Depicted person: George Moore – Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist
Irish plays and playwrights - Sara Allgood
Depicted person: Sara Allgood – Irish actress (1880-1950)
Irish plays and playwrights - Yeats
Depicted person: William Butler Yeats – Irish poet and playwright (1865–1939)
Irish plays and playwrights - Lennox Robinson
Depicted person: Lennox Robinson – Irish writer
Irish plays and playwrights - Hyde
Depicted person: Douglas Hyde – first President of Ireland; historian, poet, and folklorist (1860-1949)
Broken Toys (Lawless)
A woman breaks into tears while attempting to put away the belongings of her dead son. Illustration for the poem "Broken Toys" in Once a Week magazine, volume 9, page 672.
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.
Conventual Church Seligenstadt
View of the Conventual Church, Seligenstadt, in 1863, from a magazine article. Once a Week, volume 9, page 391.
An Agreeable Monk
Illustration for the story "An Agreeable Monk." Once a Week magazine, volume 3, page 301.
Cousin Miriam - Walter John Knewstub
Illustration for the story "Miriam's Birthday" by Isabella Law. Once a Week magazine, volume 11, page 337.
A Novel Use for Trousers - George Henry Haydon
Sketch by George Henry Haydon accompanying his account of a stay on a small uninhabited island near Australia, where he had gone to try to make money cutting mangrove trees. Previous European visitors had left... More
A Run for Life - Frederick Walker
Illustration for the story "A Run for Life: A Railroad Adventure." Two boys have taken a locomotive for a short drive on a track that ought to be deserted. But another locomotive comes up behind them, apparent... More
Capri (OAW)
View of Capri for a magazine article, Once a Week volume 9, page 111.
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Admiral's Daughters (1)
Illustration for the story "The Admiral's Daughters;" wood engraving published in Once a Week magazine, volume 6, page 1.
Admiral's Daughters (3)
Illustration for the story "The Admiral's Daughters;" wood engraving published in Once a Week magazine, volume 6, page 57.
Admiral's Daughters (2)
Illustration for the story "The Admiral's Daughters;" wood engraving published in Once a Week magazine, volume 6, page 29.
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.
Basalt at Runascariff - H G Hine
Columnar basalt at Runascariff, Rathlin Island, 1860s. From a magazine article, Once a Week, Volume 5, page 503.
Basalt at Doon Point - H G Hine
Basalt at Doon Point, Rathlin Island, 1860s. From a magazine article, Once a Week, Volume 5, page 503.