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ENGLISH ILLUSTRATION
THE SIXTIES

MORGAN LE FAY.

ENGLISH
ILLUSTRATION
'THE SIXTIES': 1855–70
BY GLEESON WHITE

WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS BY
FORD MADOX BROWN : A. BOYD HOUGHTON
ARTHUR HUGHES : CHARLES KEENE
M. J. LAWLESS : LORD LEIGHTON, P.R.A.
SIR J. E. MILLAIS, P.R.A. : G. DU MAURIER
J. W. NORTH, R.A.: G. J. PINWELL
DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI : W. SMALL
FREDERICK SANDYS: J. M^cNEILL WHISTLER
FREDERICK WALKER, A.R.A. : AND OTHERS

London
ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND CO. LTD.
16 JAMES STREET HAYMARKET
1906

THIRD IMPRESSION

Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable, Printers to His Majesty

TO
A. M. G. W. AND C. R. G. W.
IN MEMORY OF THE
MANY HOURS SPENT
UNGRUDGINGLY IN
PROOF READING

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PREFACE

In a past century the author of a well-digestedand elaborately accurate monograph, thefruit of a life's labour, was well content toentitle it 'Brief Contributions towards aHistory of So-and-So.' Nowadays, aftera few weeks' special cramming, a hastilywritten record of the facts which mostimpressed the writer is labelled often enough 'A History.'Were this book called by the earlier phrase, it would still beoverweighted. Nor did an English idiom exist that wouldprovide the exact synonym for catalogue-raisonn