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George Dalziel
1815–1902
A leading Victorian wood engraver, he helped build the Dalziel Brothers into one of the great illustration firms of 19th-century Britain. His work connected readers with artists and writers across a huge range of popular books and magazines.
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The Brothers Dalziel A Record of Fifty Years Work in Conjunction with many of the Most Distinguished Artists of the Period 1840-1890
by George Dalziel, Edward Dalziel
About the author
Born in Wooler, Northumberland, on 1 December 1815, he was educated in Newcastle and moved to London as a young man to train under the wood engraver Charles Gray. In 1839 he started his own engraving business, and his brother Edward joined him the following year, beginning the firm that became widely known as the Dalziel Brothers.
The business grew into one of the most important wood-engraving houses in Victorian Britain. Working with many prominent artists, the Dalziel firm became especially well known for black-and-white book and magazine illustration, and George later helped record that story in The Brothers Dalziel: A Record of Fifty Years' Work (1840–1890).
George Dalziel died on 4 August 1902. He is remembered as the senior figure in a family enterprise that played a major part in the look of 19th-century illustrated publishing.