Dickens's "Little Nell in Her Bonnet," headpiece by Harold Copping (1893)

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Little Nell in Her Bonnet (headpiece)

Harold Copping

1893

Photographic reproduction of line drawing

9 x 6 cm (3 ½ by 2 ¼ inches), vignetted

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Copping sets the keynote for his character studies of Dickens's most attractive child characters with a head-and-shoulders portrait of Edwardian readers' sentimental favourite, Little Nell from The Old Curiosity Shop, serialised in Master Humphrey's Clock (1840-41). [Commentary continued below.]

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Passage Illustrated: A Cameo of Little Nell Trent, Dressed for the Road

The old man looked irresolutely and helplessly at her, and shook his head. It was plain that she was thenceforth his guide ands leader. The child felt it, but had no doubts nor misgivings, and, putting her had in his, led him away. [Mary Angela Dickens et al., 137]

Various Artists' Illustrations for Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop (1841-1924)

The Old Curiosity Shop Illustrated: A Team Effort by "The Clock Works."
George Cattermole (13 plates selected)
Hablot Knight Browne (61 wood-engravings)
Felix O. C. Darley (4 photogravure plates)
Sol Eytinge, Jr. (12 wood engravings)
Thomas Worth (54 wood engravings)
Charles Green (39 wood engravings)
W. H. C. Groome (8 lithographs plus engraved title)
J. Clayton Clarke ("Kyd") (13 lithographs from watercolours)
Harry Furniss (31 lithographs plus engraved title)

Bibliography

Dickens, Charles. The Old Curiosity Shop. Illustrated by Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"). London: Chapman and Hall, 1841. Rpt., 1849 by Bradbury and Evans (3 vols. in 2).

_____. The Old Curiosity Shop. Illustrated by Thomas Worth. The Household Edition. New York: Harper & Bros., 1872. I.

_____. The Old Curiosity Shop. Illustrated by Charles Green. The Household Edition. London: Chapman and Hall, 1876.

Dickens, Mary Angela, Percy Fitzgerald, Captain Edric Vredenburg, and Others. Illustrated by Harold Copping with eleven coloured lithographs. Children's Stories from Dickens. London: Raphael Tuck, 1893.

Matz, B. W., and Kate Perugini; illustrated by Harold Copping. Character Sketches from Dickens. London: Raphael Tuck, 1924. Copy in the Paterson Library, Lakehead University.

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