Tom's Reverie and final paragraphs of the text. (1870s). Illustration by Fred Barnard for Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit LIV), page 423. [This formatting of the letterpress, the double columns and double frame, is intended to recall the format of Household Words, Dickens's vastly popular and influential journal in the 1850s.] The framed area is 21.2 x 15 cm., so that the image is surrounded by Dickens's words; consequently, for the reader the mixed-media page is what Arlene M. Jackson terms "a narrative-pictorial synthesis" (65). Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham. [You may use this image without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose as long as you (1) credit the person who scanned the image and (2) link your document to this URL in a web document or cite the Victorian Web in a print one. ]
References
Dickens, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, with 59 illustrations by Fred Barnard. Household Edition. London: Chapman and Hall, 1871-1880. The copy of the Household Edition from which this picture was scanned was the gift of George Gorniak, Editor of The Dickens Magazine, whose subject for the fifth series, beginning in January 2008, was this novel.
Jackson, Arlene M. Illustration and The Novels of Thomas Hardy. Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Littlefield, 1981.
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