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.

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...

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...

"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...

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;...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

"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...

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...

"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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

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...

"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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...