"Thrown down in a costly mass upon the ground was every ornament she had had since she had been his wife; every dress she had worn; and everything she possessed." — Fred Barnard's forty-seventh illustration for "Dombey and Son" (1877)

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in a costly mass upon the ground was every ornament she had had since she had been his wife; and everything she possessed

Fred Barnard

1877

13.7 cm high x 10.5 cm wide, three-quarter-page, framed.

composite wood-block engraving

(339)

Illustration for Chapter 47, "The Thunderbolt," in Dickens's Dombey and Son, in the Household Edition, XV.

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Passage Illustrated: Edith repents of her bargain with Dombey

Her father seized a candle that was flaming on the ground — someone had put it down there, and forgotten it—and came running upstairs with such fury, that lorence, in her fear, had hardly time to fly before him. She heard him striking in the door, as she ran on, with her hands widely spread, and her hair streaming, and her face like a distracted person’s, back to her own room.

When the door yielded, and he rushed in, what did he see there? No one knew. But thrown down in a costly mass upon the ground, was every ornament she had had, since she had been his wife; every dress she had worn; and everything she had possessed. This was the room in which he had seen, in yonder mirror, the proud face discard him. This was the room in which he had wondered, idly, how these things would look when he should see them next! [Chapter 47, "The Thunderbolt," 339]

Pertinent Scenes from Other Illustrated Editions (1847 and 1877)

Left: Phiz's dramatisation of a different side of Edith's character as he focuses on her relationship with her step-daughter: Florence and Edith on the staircase (Ch. 47, December 1847). Right: Harry Furniss's somewhat theatrical version of the same scene, with Carker as the audience: Edith tearing off her jewels (1910).

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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