"Peggotty Searching for Little Emily" (1884)

Peggotty Searching for Little Emily

Signed "F. Barnard"

1912?

Photogravure

11.3 cm high by 8.8 cm wide (4 ⅜ by 3 ½ inches), framed.

Vignetted frontispiece illustrating Volume XV, 176, in Dickens's David Copperfield in the Co-operative Publication Society Edition

Text illustrated: "And many a woman, Mas'r Davy, as has had a daughter of about Emily's age, I've found a waiting for me, at Our Saviour's Cross outside the village." — Chapter XL, "The Wanderer." [Click on the image to enlarge it. Commentary continues below: mouse over the text for links.]

Terry-Lynn Johnson Collection

Commentary: A Flashback Illustrated

The principal illustrator of Chapman and Hall's twenty-two volume Household Edition (1871-79), Fred Barnard, contracted with Cassell, Petter, and Galpin to produce his first series of six extra coloured illustrations, "Character Sketches from Dickens," in lithograph (including portraits of some of Dickens's best-loved early characters: Samuel Pickwick; Alfred Jingle; Bill Sikes and dog, Bull's eye; Sairey Gamp; Little Dorrit; and Sydney Carton); a second series, in photogravure, which appeared in 1884, contained portraits of three paired characters (Tony and Sam Weller; Caleb Plummer and his blind daughter, Bertha; Little Nell and her grandfather), and Rogue Riderhood, Dan'l Peggotty, and Seth Pecksniff; and similarly a third and final photogravure series appeared in 1885, with portraits of Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim; Uriah Heep; Dick Swiveller and the Marchioness; Betsy Trotwood; Captain Cuttle; and the indefatigable Wilkins Micawber.

Link to Related Material

See Second Series: Dan'l Peggotty in France, Hunting for Em'ly for David Copperfield

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Bibliography

A Series of Character Sketches from Dickens, from the Original Drawings by Frederick Barnard, Being Facsimiles of Original Drawings by Fred. Barnard. Series 2: Tony and Sam Weller; Caleb Plummer and his blind daughter, Bertha; Little Nell and her grandfather, and Rogue Riderhood, Dan'l Peggotty, and Seth Pecksniff. London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, 1884.

Dickens, Charles. Works. Photogravure-Illustrated Edition. New York and London: Co-operative Publication Society, [n. d., 1912?].

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