Dickens and His Illustrators

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DICKENS

AND HIS ILLUSTRATORS

[Illustration: "And so as Tiny Tim observed, God bless us every one!"

Charles Dickens]

PLATE I

CHARLES DICKENS

From a scarce Lithograph by

SOL. EYTINGE, JUNR.

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 have been so popular." The late Mr. J. R. Osgood did not recall any actual sitting for the Portrait, but remembers that Eytinge often saw Dickens while making the drawing. The impression from which the present reproduction was made is particularly interesting on account of the quotation from "A Christmas Carol" in the autograph of Dickens.

Lent by Mr. Stuart M. Samuel.

DICKENS

AND HIS ILLUSTRATORS

CRUIKSHANK, SEYMOUR, BUSS, "PHIZ," CATTERMOLE LEECH, DOYLE, STANFIELD, MACLISE, TENNIEL FRANK STONE, LANDSEER, PALMER, TOPHAM MARCUS STONE, AND LUKE FILDES

BY

FREDERIC G. KITTON AUTHOR OF "CHARLES DICKENS BY PEN AND PENCIL," ETC.

WITH TWENTY-TWO PORTRAITS AND FACSIMILES OF SEVENTY ORIGINAL DRAWINGS NOW REPRODUCED FOR THE FIRST TIME

SECOND EDITION

LONDON GEORGE REDWAY 1899

TO

CHARLES DICKENS'S DAUGHTER

KATE PERUGINI

THESE NOTES UPON THE ILLUSTRATIONS TO HER FATHER'S WRITINGS

are respectfully dedicated

BY THE AUTHOR

PREFACE

In the matter of pictorial embellishment, the writings of Charles Dickens may be regarded as occupying a unique position. The original issues alone present a remarkable array of illustrations; and when we remember the innumerable engravings specially prepared for subsequent editions, as well as for independent publication, we are fain to confess that, in this respect at least, the works of "Boz" take precedence of those of any other novelist. These designs, too, are of particular interest, inasmuch as they are representative of nearly every branch of the art of the book-illustrator; both the pencil of the draughtsman and the needle of the etcher have been requisitioned, while the brush of the painter has depicted for us many striking scenes culled from the pages of Dickens.

The evolution of a successful picture, as exhibited by means of preparatory sketches, is eminently instructive to the student of Art. The present volume should therefore appeal not merely to the Dickens Collector, but to all who appreciate the artistic value of tentative studies wrought for a special purpose. The absolute facsimiles, here given for the first time, enable us to obtain an insight into the methods adopted by the designers in developing their conceptions, those methods being further manifested by the aid of correspondence which, happily, is still extant.