"He rose from his bed with a heavy sigh, and wrapped himself in his morning-gown." — Fred Barnard's forty-first illustration for Dickens's "Barnaby Rudge" (1874)

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He rose from his bed with a heavy sigh, and wrapped himself in his morning-gown. "So she kept her word," he said, "and was constant to her threat!"

Fred Barnard

1874

5 ⅜ x 4 ⅛ inches (13.8 cm by 10.6 cm), framed

Dickens's Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty, Vol. VII of the Household Edition, Chapter LXXVI, 296.

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Passage Illustrated

Gabriel said no more, but gave the knight a parting look, and left him. As he quitted the room, Sir John’s face changed; and the smile gave place to a haggard and anxious expression, like that of a weary actor jaded by the performance of a difficult part. He rose from his bed with a heavy sigh, and wrapped himself in his morning-gown.

"So she kept her word," he said, "and was constant to her threat! I would I had never seen that dark face of hers, — I might have read these consequences in it, from the first. This affair would make a noise abroad, if it rested on better evidence; but, as it is, and by not joining the scattered links of the chain, I can afford to slight it. — Extremely distressing to be the parent of such an uncouth creature! Still, I gave him very good advice. I told him he would certainly be hanged. I could have done no more if I had known of our relationship; and there are a great many fathers who have never done as much for their natural children.—The hairdresser may come in, Peak!" [Chapter LXXV, 295]

Relevant Illustration from the 1841 First Edition: Maintaining the Facade

Phiz's depiction as Chester as suave and unemotional, in contrast to the earnestness of Gabriel Varden in Intruding upon the Privacy of "A Gentleman" (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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