American-born but European-trained artist C. S. [Charles Stanley] Reinhart's fifteen plates for Charles Dickens's Hard Times. For These Times appeared in the single-volume, American version of the Household Edition published in the early 1870s. His "Parisian" style of illustration, just in vogue when the American Household edition of Hard Times was published in 1870, is a severe departure from the careful detailism of Fred Walker and Harry French, the novel's previous (British) illustrators. Simon Houfe's remarks about Reinhart's penmanship conveying a sense of colouring without the actual use of any pigmentation are certainly appropriate to his work on this Dickens novel.
Frontispiece. Plate 1: Caption: And Through Humility, And Sorrow, And Forgiveness, He Had Gone To His Redeemer's Rest. [Page 220.
Plate 2: No Caption: Mr. Gradgrind Catches Louisa and Tom at the Circus. Illustration before Chapter I. "The One Thing Needful."
Plate 3: Caption: "Father Must Have Gone Down to the Booth, Sir." Running Head: Mr. Bounderby Instructed in Terms of Art. Page 133.
Plate 4: Caption: "Heaven's Mercy, Woman! . . . .Hast Thou Come Back Again!" Page 146.
Plate 5: Caption: "The Creature Struggled, Struck Her, Seized Her by the Hair; But Rachael Had the Cup." Running Head: Stephen's Dream. Page 153.
Plate 6: Caption: "My Dear Louisa," Returned Mr. Gradgrind, Re-Assured and Satisfied, "You Correct Me Justly. I Merely Wished to Discharge My Duty." Page 158.
Plate 7: Caption: "The Lady Is Quite a Philosopher, I Am Told?" Page 166.
Plate 8: Caption: "My Sister Loo?" Said Tom. "She Never Cared for Old Bounderby." Running Head: The Whelp Under A Spell. Page 171.
Plate 9: Caption: "Rachael, Will You Tell Him--For You Know How, Without Offense--That This Is Freely His, To Help Him on His Way?" Page 180.
Plate 10: Caption: "Oh, Tom! Tell Me the Truth!" Page 190.
Plate 11: "Mrs. Sparsit Saw with Delight That His Arm Embraced Her." Running Head: Mrs. Sparsit's Triumph. Page 197.
Plate 12: "Forgive Me, Pity Me, Help Me!" Running Head: Sissy and Louisa. Page 203.
Plate 13: "If You Can't Get It Out, Ma''am," Said Bounderby, "Leave Me to Get It Out." Page 208.
Plate 14: "Rachael Caught Her in Both Arms, with a Scream That Resounded Over the Wide Landscape." Running Head: The Old Pit. Page 217.
Plate 15: The Father Buried His Face in His Hands, And the Son Stood in His Disgraceful Grotesqueness Biting Straw. Page 224.
References
Houfe, Simon. The Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Book Illustrators and Caricaturists. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors' Club, 1978.
Pennell, Joseph. The Adventures of An Illustrator Mostly in Following His Authors in America and Europe. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1925.
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