"Doctor Blimber's Young Gentlemen as they appeared when enjoying themselves" — seventh serial illustration by "Phiz" for "Dombey and Son" (January 1847)

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Doctor Blimber's Young Gentlemen as they appeared when enjoying themselves

Phiz (Hablot K. Browne)

Steel-engraving

January 1847 (Chapter 12)

12.6 cm high by 11.7 cm wide

Seventh serial illustration in Dickens's Dombey and Son, facing p. 192

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Passage Illustrated: The Academicians out for a walk near the cliffs at Brighton

The young gentlemen bowed and withdrew. Mr Feeder did likewise. During the half-hour, the young gentlemen, broken into pairs, loitered arm-in-arm up and down a small piece of ground behind the house, or endeavoured to kindle a spark of animation in the breast of Briggs. But nothing happened so vulgar as play. Punctually at the appointed time, the gong was sounded, and the studies, under the joint auspices of Doctor Blimber and Mr. Feeder, were resumed.

As the Olympic game of lounging up and down had been cut shorter than usual that day, on Johnson’s account, they all went out for a walk before tea. Even Briggs (though he hadn’t begun yet) partook of this dissipation; in the enjoyment of which he looked over the cliff two or three times darkly. Doctor Blimber accompanied them; and Paul had the honour of being taken in tow by the Doctor himself: a distinguished state of things, in which he looked very little and feeble. [Chapter XII, "Paul's Education," 192]

Scenes for This Chapter from Other Editions (1877 and 1910)

Left: Fred Barnard focusses on Paul's relationship with the vacuous Toots: "Your father's regularly rich, ain't he?" inquired Mr. Toots (1877). Right: Harry Furniss'a description of Dr. Blimber's warm reception of his wealthy client: Paul introduced to Dr. Blimber (1910).

Related Material, including Other Illustrated Editions of Dombey and Son

Dombey and Son (homepage)
O. C. Darley's Frontispiece in the New York edition (Vol. 1, 1862)
O. C. Darley's Frontispiece in the New York edition (Vol. 2, 1862)
O. C. Darley's Frontispiece in the New York edition (Vol. 3, 1862)
Sol Eytinge, Junior's 16 Diamond Edition Illustrations (1867)
Fred Barnard's 61 Illustrations for the Household Edition (1877)
Groome's illustrations of the Collins Pocket Edition (1900, rpt. 1934)
Kyd's five Player's Cigarette Cards, 1910
Harry Furniss's 29 illustrations for the Charles Dickens Library Edition (1910)
Harold Copping's Captain Cuttle's Bright Idea, 1924.

Bibliography

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Kitton, Frederic George. Dickens and His Illustrators: Cruikshank, Seymour, Buss, "Phiz," Cattermole, Leech, Doyle, Stanfield, Maclise, Tenniel, Frank Stone, Landseer, Palmer, Topham, Marcus Stone, and Luke Fildes. Amsterdam: S. Emmering, 1972. Re-print of the London (1899) edition.

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