"Uncaptioned Tailpiece — Grip the Raven's parting words" — Fred Barnard's final illustration for Dickens's "Barnaby Rudge" (1874)

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"Polly put the kettle on & we'll all have tea!"

Fred Barnard

1874

3 ½ x 3 ¼ inches (8.8 cm by 5.2 cm), vignetted

Dickens's Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty, Vol. VII of the Household Edition, Chapter the Last, 320.

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Uncaptioned Tailpiece — Grip the Raven's parting words

Grip soon recovered his looks, and became as glossy and sleek as ever. But he was profoundly silent. Whether he had forgotten the art of Polite Conversation in Newgate, or had made a vow in those troubled times to forego, for a period, the display of his accomplishments, is matter of uncertainty; but certain it is that for a whole year he never indulged in any other sound than a grave, decorous croak. At the expiration of that term, the morning being very bright and sunny, he was heard to address himself to the horses in the stable, upon the subject of the Kettle, so often mentioned in these pages; and before the witness who overheard him could run into the house with the intelligence, and add to it upon his solemn affirmation the statement that he had heard him laugh, the bird himself advanced with fantastic steps to the very door of the bar, and there cried, "I’m a devil, I’m a devil, I’m a devil!" with extraordinary rapture. [Chapter LXXXI, 320]

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; rpt., Bradbury and Evans, 1849.

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

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