"Sat the unhappy author of all — Lord George Gordon" — Fred Barnard's fortieth illustration for Dickens's "Barnaby Rudge" (1874)

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Sat the unhappy author of all — Lord George Gordon

Fred Barnard

1874

5 ⅜ x 3 ⅝ inches (13.8 cm by 9.4 cm), vignetted

Dickens's Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty, Vol. VII of the Household Edition, Chapter LXXIII, 288.

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Passage Illustrated

And in the Tower, in a dreary room whose thick stone walls shut out the hum of life, and made a stillness which the records left by former prisoners with those silent witnesses seemed to deepen and intensify; remorseful for every act that had been done by every man among the cruel crowd; feeling for the time their guilt his own, and their lives put in peril by himself; and finding, amidst such reflections, little comfort in fanaticism, or in his fancied call; sat the unhappy author of all — Lord George Gordon.

He had been made prisoner that evening. "If you are sure it’s me you want," he said to the officers, who waited outside with the warrant for his arrest on a charge of High Treason, "I am ready to accompany you —" which he did without resistance. He was conducted first before the Privy Council, and afterwards to the Horse Guards, and then was taken by way of Westminster Bridge, and back over London Bridge (for the purpose of avoiding the main streets), to the Tower, under the strongest guard ever known to enter its gates with a single prisoner. [Chapter LXXIII, 286]

Equivalent Illustration from the First Edition

George Cattermole's atmospheric illustration of the aristocratic prisoner held on a charge of high treason: Lord George Gordon in The Tower (30 October 1841).

Related Material including Other Illustrated Editions of Barnaby Rudge

Dickens's Barnaby Rudge (homepage)
Cattermole and Phiz: The First illustrators: A Team Effort by "The Clock Works" (1841)
Phiz's Original Serial Illustrations (13 Feb.-27 Nov. 1841)
Cattermole's Seventeen Illustrations (13 Feb.- 27 Nov. 1841)
Felix Octavius Carr Darley's Six Illustrations (1865 and 1888)
Sol Eytinge, Jr.'s ten Diamond Edition Illustrations (1867)
A. H. Buckland's six illustrations for the Collins' Clear-type Pocket Edition (1900)
Harry Furniss's 28 illustrations for The Charles Dickens Library Edition (1910)

Bibliography

Dickens, Charles. Barnaby Rudge in Master Humphrey's Clock. Illustrated by Phiz and George Cattermole. 3 vols. London: Chapman and Hall, 1841.

_______. Barnaby Rudge. Illustrated by Sol Eytinge, Jr. The Diamond Edition. 16 vols. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867.

________. Barnaby Rudge — A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty. Illustrated by Fred Barnard. The Household Edition. 22 vols. London: Chapman and Hall, 1874. VII.

________. The Dickens Souvenir Book. London: Chapman & Hall, 1912.

Hammerton, J. A. "Ch. XIV. Barnaby Rudge." The Dickens Picture-Book. The Charles Dickens Library Edition, illustrated by Harry Furniss. London: Educational Book Co., 1910. 213-55.

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