"Gashford's Advice to Hugh" — Harry Furniss's sixteenth illustration for Dickens's "Barnaby Rudge" (1910)

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Gashford's Advice to Hugh

"I would have you put some meaning into your work. Fools! Can you make no better bonfires than of rags and scraps? Can you burn nothing whole?" "A little patience, master," said Hugh. "Wait but a few hours, and you shall see. Look for a redness in the sky, to-morrow night."

Harry Furniss

1910

14.3 cm x 9.3 cm (5 ½ by 3 ⅝ inches), framed

Dickens's Barnaby Rudge, The Charles Dickens Library Edition (1910), facing VI, 400.

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Context of the Illustration: Furniss Brings Sim together with Hugh and Denis

As the main body filed off from this scene of action, and passed down Welbeck Street, they came upon Gashford, who had been a witness of their proceedings, and was walking stealthily along the pavement. Keeping up with him, and yet not seeming to speak, Hugh muttered in his ear:

"Is this better, master?"

"No," said Gashford. "It is not."

"What would you have?" said Hugh. "Fevers are never at their height at once. They must get on by degrees."

"I would have you," said Gashford, pinching his arm with such malevolence that his nails seemed to meet in the skin; "I would have you put some meaning into your work. Fools! Can you make no better bonfires than of rags and scraps? Can you burn nothing whole?"

"A little patience, master," said Hugh. "Wait but a few hours, and you shall see. Look for a redness in the sky, to-morrow night." [Chapter LII, 407]

Relevant Illustration from the 1874 Household Edition

Above: Barnard describes the action of the mob in a dark plate: It flitted onward, and was gone (Chapter LI).

Related Material including Other Illustrated Editions of Barnaby Rudge

Charles Dickens’s Barnaby Rudge (homepage)
Cattermole and Phiz — First illustrators: A Team Effort by "The Clock Works" (1841)
Cattermole's Seventeen Illustrations (13 Feb.-27 Nov. 1841)
Phiz's Original Serial Illustrations (13 Feb.-27 Nov. 1841)
F. O. C. Darley's frontispieces and extra illustrations for the novel (1862 and 1888)
Sol Eytinge, Jr.'s Diamond Edition Illustrations (1867)
Fred Barnard's 46 illustrations for the Household Edition (1874)
A. H. Buckland's illustrations for The Collins' Clear-type Press Pocket Edition (1900)

Bibliography

Dickens, Charles. Barnaby Rudge in Master Humphrey's Clock. Illustrated by Phiz and George Cattermole. 3 vols. London: Chapman and Hall, 1841; rpt., Bradbury and Evans, 1849.

________. Barnaby Rudge — A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty. Illustrated by Fred Barnard. The Household Edition. 22 vols. London: Chapman and Hall, 1874. VII.

________. Barnaby Rudge. Illustrated by Harry Furniss. The Charles Dickens Library Edition. London: Educational Book Company, 1910. VI.

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Last modified 17 December 2020