# Frontispiece to 'The Dial' [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [RICKETTS, Charles]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Wood engraving on paper, 200 x 137 mm ## Commentary 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". ## Related artworks - [Costume design]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()