"All this time, the bereaved father has not been seen even by his attendant; for he sits in a corner of his own dark room" — Fred Barnard's eighteenth illustration for "Dombey and Son" (1877)

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All this time, the bereaved father has not been seen even by his attendant; for he sits in a corner of his own dark room.

Fred Barnard

1877

13.8 cm high x 10.7 cm wide, three-quarter-page, framed.

composite wood-block engraving

Dombey and Son, 124

Illustration for Chapter 18, "Father and Daughter," in Dickens's Dombey and Son, in the Household Edition, XV.

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Passage Illustrated: After Paul's Funeral

After dark there comes some visitors — noiseless visitors, with shoes of felt — who have been there before; and with them comes that bed of rest which is so strange a one for infant sleepers. All this time, the bereaved father has not been seen even by his attendant; for he sits in an inner corner of his own dark room when anyone is there, and never seems to move at other times, except to pace it to and fro. But in the morning it is whispered among the household that he was heard to go upstairs in the dead night, and that he stayed there—in the room—until the sun was shining. [Chapter 18, "Father and Daughter," 123]

Illustration for the same chapter in the Original Edition (March 1847)

Poor Paul's Friend

Images Dombey as an Emotional Oyster in Other Editions (1848 and 1867)

Left: Sol Eytinge, Junior, introduces Dombey with his boy in the frontispiece of the Diamond Edition: Dombey and Son (1867). Left of centre: Phiz's initial portrait of Dickens's emotionally detached capitalist: The Dombey Family with Florence, Paul as a baby, and his nurse (Chapter 3, December 1846). Right of centre: Phiz reiterates Dombey's emotional isolation in The Christening Party (Chapter 5, November 1846). Right of centre: Phiz's Mr. Dombey and the World (Chapter 51, January 1848).

Related Material including Other Illustrated Editions of Dombey and Son

Dombey and Son (homepage)
Phiz's 39 illustrations for Dombey and Son, Wholesale Retail & for Exportation (Oct. 1846 — April 1848)
Sol Eytinge, Junior's 16 illustrations (1867)
The Illustrators of the Household Edition of the Works of Charles Dickens (22 vols., 1871-79)
Kyd's five Player's Cigarette Cards for Dombey and Son (1910)
Harry Furniss's illustrations for the Charles Dickens Library Edition (1910)

Bibliography

Dickens, Charles. Dombey and Son. Illustrated by Phiz. (Hablot K. Browne). London: Chapman and Hall, 1848.

_______. Dombey and Son. Illustrated by Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz). 8 coloured plates. London and Edinburgh: Caxton and Ballantyne, Hanson, 1910.

_______. Dombey and Son.16 Illustrations by Sol Eytinge, Jr., and A. V. S. Anthony (engraver). The Diamond Edition. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1867. III.

_______. Dombey and Son. Illustrated by Fred Barnard [62 composite wood-block engravings]. The Works of Charles Dickens. The Household Edition. 22 vols. London: Chapman and Hall, 1877. XV.

"Dombey and Son — Sixty-two Illustrations by Fred Barnard." Scenes and Characters from the Works of Charles Dickens, Being Eight Hundred and Sixty-six Drawings by Fred Barnard, Gordon Thomson, Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz), J. McL. Ralston, J. Mahoney, H. French, Charles Green, E. G. Dalziel, A. B. Frost, F. A. Fraser, and Sir Luke Fildes. London: Chapman and Hall, 1907.

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