Frontispiece to 'The Dial'
by RICKETTS, Charles, Wood engraving on paper, 200 x 137 mm
The magazine The Dial was published by Charles Ricketts and Charles Shannon in an attempt to bridge the gap between tradition - printing inspired by the Middle Ages - and Art Nouveau’s graphic forms of expression. Woodcuts printed in The Dial in 1893 were referred to as “an experiment in line”.