Thomas Dalziel (engraver)

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Thomas Dalziel (1823 — 1906) was an engraver who joined the Dalziel Brothers in 1860. He was the fourth one to join, the firm had been founded in 1839 by George Dalziel and Edward Dalziel, and John Dalziel joined in 1852.

Thomas Dalziel made many book illustrations, at first in a style much influenced by John Gilbert, and later developing a more personal manner. Many of his designs are workmanlike rather than anything more inspired - it is hard to avoid the suspicion that they are there to increase the numbers of pictures in otherwise under-illustrated books. However, at his best he is far above his average, notably in his Pilgrim's Progress and The Arabian Nights.

His elder brother Edward Dalziel also drew, but rather less frequently. He made a very few illustrations for Jean Ingelow's Poems, for Dalziel's Arabian Nights, two for Willmott's Poems of the 19th Century and a few for other books, but produced almost nothing for the illustrated magazines.