Pip and Estella
H. M. Brock
photogravure
1901-3
15.3 cm high by 9.6 cm wide (6 by 3 ¾ inches), framed
Coloured frontispiece for Dickens's Great Expectations
Image scan and text by Philip V. Allingham.
Passage Illustrated: Estella coyly delivers Pip's lunch
“You are to wait here, you boy,” said Estella; and disappeared and closed the door.
I took the opportunity of being alone in the courtyard to look at my coarse hands and my common boots. My opinion of those accessories was not favourable. They had never troubled me before, but they troubled me now, as vulgar appendages. I determined to ask Joe why he had ever taught me to call those picture-cards Jacks, which ought to be called knaves. I wished Joe had been rather more genteelly brought up, and then I should have been so too.
She came back, with some bread and meat and a little mug of beer. She put the mug down on the stones of the yard, and gave me the bread and meat without looking at me, as insolently as if I were a dog in disgrace. I was so humiliated, hurt, spurned, offended, angry, sorry, — I cannot hit upon the right name for the smart — God knows what its name was, — that tears started to my eyes. The moment they sprang there, the girl looked at me with a quick delight in having been the cause of them. This gave me power to keep them back and to look at her: so, she gave a contemptuous toss — but with a sense, I thought, of having made too sure that I was so wounded — and left me. [Chapter VIII, pp.44-45]
Pertinent Illustrations in Other Editions: 1860, 1867, 1876, 1885, and 1903
Upper left: John McLenan's Pip and Estella in "Which I meantersay, Pip."; upper right, Sol Eytinge, Jr.'s "Estella and Miss Havisham". Upper right: Harry Furniss's romantic interlude with Estella, An Unexpected Pleasure For Pip (1910). Lower left: F. A. Fraser's "She gave a contemptuous toss . . . . and left me." Lower right: H. M. Brock's I present Joe to Miss Havisham. [Click on the images to enlarge them.]
Other Artists’ Illustrations for Dickens's Great Expectations
- A Comparison of Fraser's Illustrations in the original 1870s Household Edition plates and those in the Collier New York edition of 1900
- J. Clayton Clarke or "Kyd"
(2 coloured lithographs) - Felix O. C. Darley (2 plates)
- A. A. Dixon (8 lithographs)
- Sol Eytinge, Jr. (8 wood-engravings)
- F. A. Fraser (30 wood-engravings)
- Harry Furniss (28 plates)
- Charles Green (10 lithographs)
- Frederic W. Pailthorpe (21 lithographs)
- John McLenan (40 plates)
- Marcus Stone (8 plates)
Bibliography
Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. Illustrated by H. M. Brock. Imperial Edition. 16 vols. London: Gresham Publishing Company [34 Southampton Street, The Strand, London], 1901-3.
Created 19 January 2002 Last updated 28 September 2021