"Characters in the Story" by Harry Furniss — title-page & vignettes; second illustration for Dickens's "Great Expectations" (1910)

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Characters in the Story

Harry Furniss

1910

Lithograph

13.8 cm by 9.0 cm (framed)

Engraved title-page for Great Expectations, The Charles Dickens Library Edition (1910), facing XIV, frontispiece.

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Commentary

The Characters in the Story: Harry Furniss provides a visual summary of the weekly serialised novel's extensive cast, ranging the convict in the graveyard (upper left) through Miss Havisham in state (upper right), a graphic overture to the twenty-six illustrations that follow the frontispiece and the title-page. Several of these thumbnails do not appear anywhere in the program of illustration — for example, the judge, lower right, pronouncing sentence (probably over Magwitch in ch. 56) — suggesting that some of these may be based on preliminary studies that Furniss later elected not to use.

Illustrations by Other Artists

A Comparison of Fraser's Illustrations in the original 1876 Household Edition plates and those in the Collier New York edition of 1900
J. Clayton Clarke ("Kyd") (2 plates)
Felix O. C. Darley (2 plates)
Sol Eytinge, Jr. (8 wood-engravings)
F. A. Fraser (29 wood-engravings)
John McLenan (40 weekly wood-engravings)
Charles Green (10 lithographs)
Frederic W. Pailthorpe (12 plates)
Marcus Stone (8 plates)

The 1876 Household Edition Title-Page and Vignette

Above: F. A. Fraser's 1876 Household Edition title-page & vignette: Pip at the lime-kiln on the Marshes.

Bibliography

Davis, Paul. Charles Dickens A to Z: The Essential Reference to His Life and Work. New York: Facts On File, 1998.

Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. Illustrated by Marcus Stone. The Illustrated Library Edition. London: Chapman and Hall, 1862.

_____. Great Expectations. Illustrated by F. A. Fraser. The Household Edition. 22 vols. London: Chapman and Hall, 1876. Vol. 6.

_____. Great Expectations. Illustrated by Charles Green. The Gadshill Edition. London: Chapman and Hall, 1898.

_____. Great Expectations. Illustrated Harry Furniss. Charles Dickens Library Edition. 18 vols. London: Educational Book Company, 1910. Vol. 14.

Created 24 January 2013

7 October 2021