"Barnaby and Hugh" from one of four Phiz illustrations for "Barnaby Rudge" (1849 Cheap Edition)

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Barnaby and Hugh

Hablot Knight Browne ('Phiz')

1912, based on an 1849 engraving

Photogravure

13.2 cm high by 8.8 cm wide (5 ¼ inches high by 3 ½ inches wide), framed in an oval.

Volume IX, Dickens's Barnaby Rudge, 414, in the Co-operative Publication Society Edition (1912)

Terry-Lynn Johnson Collection.

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Passage Illustrated: Barnaby tells his mother about an encounter Hugh and he had

‘What man?’

‘The robber; him that the stars winked at. We have waited for him after dark these many nights, and we shall have him. I’d know him in a thousand. Mother, see here! This is the man. Look!’

He twisted his handkerchief round his head, pulled his hat upon his brow, wrapped his coat about him, and stood up before her: so like the original he counterfeited, that the dark figure peering out behind him might have passed for his own shadow.

‘Ha ha ha! We shall have him,’ he cried, ridding himself of the semblance as hastily as he had assumed it. ‘You shall see him, mother, bound hand and foot, and brought to London at a saddle-girth; and you shall hear of him at Tyburn Tree if we have luck. So Hugh says. You’re pale again, and trembling. And why DO you look behind me so?’

‘It is nothing,’ she answered. ‘I am not quite well. Go you to bed, dear, and leave me here.’ [Master Humphrey's Clock, Vol. 2: Barnaby Rudge, Chapter XVII, pp. 29-30]

Relevant Character Studies from Eytinge, Barnard, and Darley (1867, 1874, and 1888)

Left: Sol Eytinge, Junior's dual character study: Dennis and Hugh (Chapter 74). Left of centre: Eytinge's Barnaby and His Mother (frontispiece). Right of centre: Felix Octavius Carr Darley's 1888 study Barnaby Rudge and Grip the Raven. Right: Fred Barnard's 1874 Household Edition illustration of Hugh and the Hangman: "You ought to be the best, instead of the worst," said Hugh. . . . (Chapter LXXVII).

Related Resources: Other Illustrated Editions (1841-1910)

Dickens's Barnaby Rudge (homepage)
Cattermole's Seventeen Illustrations for Barnaby Rudge (13 Feb.-27 Nov. 1841)
Felix Octavius Carr Darley's Six Illustrations for Barnaby Rudge (1865 and 1888)
Sol Eytinge, Jr.'s Diamond Edition Illustrations for Barnaby Rudge (1867)
Fred Barnard's 46 Illustrations for the Household Edition of Dickens's Barnaby Rudge (1874)
A. H. Buckland's 6 illustrations for the Collins' Clear-type Pocket Edition of Dickens's Barnaby Rudge (1900)
The Charles Dickens Library Edition Illustrations for Barnaby Rudge by Harry Furniss (1910)

Bibliography

Darley, Octavius Carr. Character Sketches from Dickens. Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, 1888.

Dickens, Charles. Barnaby Rudge in Master Humphrey's Clock, vols. 2 and 3. Illustrated by Hablot Knight Browne and George Cattermole. London: Chapman and Hall, 1841.

Dickens, Charles. Barnaby Rudge. Illustrated by Hablot Knight Browne. Original pencil drawings Barnaby and Hugh, and Mrs. Varden and Miggs, two of four extra illustrations for the Cheap Edition. London: Chapman and Hall, 1849.

Dickens, Charles. Barnaby Rudge and Hard Times. Illustrated by Sol Eytinge, Jr. The Diamond Edition. 16 vols. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1867. Vol. IX.

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

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

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