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J. Clayton Clarke ("Kyd")
c. 1900
Original watercolour
Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham
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Commentary
The models for Kyd's illustrations for Oliver Twist illustrations were chiefly the serial illustrations of Dickens's original collaborator, George Cruikshank, in Bentley's Miscellany, February 1837 through April 1839 (twenty-four monthly parts, with two interruptions). However, Kyd would also have had access to James Mahoney's 1871 Household Edition volume. Since the style of Kyd's pictures suggests a period closer to his creation of the John Player cigarette card illustrations in 1910, Kyd may also have had access to Harry Furniss's 1910 Charles Dickens Library illustrations, and quite possibly the caricatural illustrations of Frederic W. Pailthorpe(1886). Whereas the other illustrations for the novel are massed-produced, these are original water-colours, designed to be positioned in an existing text.
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