"Took Uncle Sol’s snuff-coloured lapels, one in each hand; kissed him on the cheek, etc." — Fred Barnard's twentieth illustration for "Dombey and Son" (1877)

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Took Uncle Sol’s snuff-coloured lapels, one in each hand; kissed him on the cheek, etc.

Fred Barnard

1877

14 cm high x 10.8 cm wide, three-quarter-page, framed.

composite wood-block engraving

Dombey and Son, 128

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

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Passage Illustrated: News that Walter is being sent abroad

‘Why, Uncle!" exclaimed Walter. "What’s the matter?"

Old Solomon replied, "Miss Dombey!"

"Is it possible?" cried Walter, looking round and starting up in his turn. "Here!"

Why, It was so possible and so actual, that, while the words were on his lips, Florence hurried past him; took Uncle Sol’s snuff-coloured lapels, one in each hand; kissed him on the cheek; and turning, gave her hand to Walter with a simple truth and earnestness that was her own, and no one else’s in the world!

"Going away, Walter?" said Florence. [Chapter 19, "Walter goes away," 134-35]

Relevant Illustrations from Other Editions (1847-1877)

Left: Phiz's original illustration of Florence and Susan Nipper arriving at the marine store shop: The Wooden Midshipman on the Look-Out (March, 1847). Centre: Sol Eytinge, Jr.'s dual study of the nautical characters: Sol. Gills and Walter Gay (1867). Right: W. H. C. Groome's version of the same scene: Florence kissed him on the cheek (1900).

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)
Groome's illustrations of the Collins Pocket Edition of Dombey and Son (1900, rpt. 1934)
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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