Category: British Literature

Dickens and His Illustrators Cruikshank, Seymour, Buss, "Phiz," Cattermole, Leech, Doyle, Stanfield, Maclise, Tenniel, Frank Stone, Landseer, Palmer, Topham, Marcus Stone, and Luke Fildes 2nd. Ed.

This Portrait was published during the Novelist's last visit to America (1867-68), by Fields, Osgood & Co., of Boston, their advertisement describing it as "an Authentic Portrait of Charles Dickens, drawn on stone by S. Eytinge, Jr., whose Illustrations of Dickens's Novels hav...

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1. Part 1

This Portrait was published during the Novelist's last visit to America (1867-68), by Fields, Osgood & Co., of Boston, their advertisement describing it as "an Authentic Portrai...

2. Part 2

Before his introduction to Charles Dickens in 1836, the versatile artist had adorned several volumes, which, but for his striking illustrations, would probably have enjoyed but...

3. Part 3

In considering the story as a whole, it is difficult to say how much of the powerful impression we are conscious of may be due to the illustrator. In his famous eulogy on Cruiks...

4. Part 4

In 1872 Cruikshank issued a pamphlet entitled "The Artist and the Author, a Statement of Facts," where he positively asserted that not only was he the actual originator of "Oliv...

5. Part 5

"I was a young man of three-and-twenty when the present publishers [Chapman & Hall], attracted by some pieces I was at that time writing in the _Morning Chronicle_ newspaper (of...

6. Part 6

"There has been going on for years an attempt on the part of Seymour's widow to extort money from me by representing that he had some inexplicable and ill-used part in the inven...

7. Part 7

As a painter of humorous scenes and historical events, Buss gained considerable popularity. From 1826 to 1859 he contributed nearly every year subject-pictures and portraits to...

8. Part 8

For the first three parts of "The Pickwick Papers" there was so limited a demand that the publishers seriously contemplated a discontinuance of the work, a fate which, from the...

9. Part 9

It was the novelist's intention to expose in this story the terrible abuses practised in the cheap boarding-schools of Yorkshire, and, in order that he might realise their true...

10. Part 10

Browne's versatile pencil was again actively employed in embellishing the story begun by Dickens soon after his return from America in 1842, and to this he contributed forty etc...

11. Part 11

"The Major presents them to Mr. Dombey, gloating within himself over what may come of it, and over the discomfiture of Miss Tox. Mr. Dombey (in deep mourning) bows solemnly. Dau...

12. Part 12

In 1882, a writer in _The Academy_, who considered the illustrations in "Bleak House" as being practically perfect, said of them: "Not only is the comic side, the even fussily c...

13. Part 13

Mr. Young acted as Browne's assistant in the manner described during the greater part of the years of "Phiz's" popularity, and his co-operation extended not only to the Dickens...

14. Part 14

"When Hugh and a small body of the rioters cut off from the Warren beckoned to their pals, they forced into a very remarkable postchaise Dolly Varden and Emma Haredale, and bore...

15. Part 15

"MY DEAR FORSTER,--I really cannot say off-hand how many illustrations I can make within the week; indeed, I am so embarrassed by the conditions under which I am to make my shar...

16. Part 16

In 1844 Dickens conceived the idea of a second Christmas Book, "The Chimes," and what more natural than that he should desire to enlist the services, as illustrator, of so skill...

17. Part 17

Both the frontispiece and title-page were excellently rendered on wood by John Thompson, one of the foremost engravers of the day. Maclise, however, had hoped the work would hav...

18. Part 18

Charles Dickens first became acquainted with Sir Edwin Henry Landseer during the "Nickleby" period, and ever entertained the highest admiration and personal regard for this famo...

19. Part 19

"MY DEAR MARCUS,--You made an excellent sketch from a book of mine which I have received (and preserved) with great pleasure. Will you accept from me _this_ little book? I belie...

20. Part 20

When Mr. Marcus Stone, R.A., had completed his designs for "Our Mutual Friend," he determined to relinquish black-and-white drawing and to concentrate his energy upon painting;...

21. Part 21

It was decreed, alas! that Mr. Fildes's visit to Charles Dickens's "little Kentish freehold" would never be realised while the great writer lived. On the morning of the appointe...

22. Part 22

Among the American illustrators of the writings of Dickens, an important place must be conceded to Sol. Eytinge, who was born in New York in 1833. He began to draw at a very ear...

23. Part 23

HEADS FROM "NICHOLAS NICKLEBY."--Portraits of twenty-four of the principal characters, "from drawings by Miss La Creevy." Six parts, demy 8vo, price 6d. each. London: Robert Tya...

24. Part 24

CHARLES DANA GIBSON.--This young American artist, who has frequently contributed to a New York journal called _Life_, recently essayed to illustrate Dickens by means of a series...

25. Part 25

Hablôt, Colonel, 114. Hall, Mr. (Chapman & Hall), 44, 49, 116. Hamerton, P. G., 2, 183. Hamilton, Colonel, 6. Hamilton, J., 245, 248. Hampstead Road, 199. Hanley, E., 245. "Hard...