"Clavering setting out to join the King" — Phiz's first serial illustration for William Harrison Ainsworth's "Ovingdean Grange: A Tale of the South Downs" (1859-60)

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Clavering setting out to join the King

Phiz

Dalziel

Part 1: November 1859

Wood-engraving

15.3 cm high by 10.4 cm wide, vignetted, facing p. 16.

Ovingdean Grange, originally published in Bentley's Miscellany; Book One, Chapter 2.

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Passage Illustrated: 1651

Sad presentiments had filled Dulcia’s breast when young Maunsel, full of martial ardour and enthusiasm for his cause, had set out on the expedition. She had accompanied him to the summit of the down overlooking the neighbouring town of Brightelmstone, then giving little promise of its future magnitude and importance, and chiefly noticeable from this point by a cluster of quaint old houses, with red-tiled roofs and gables, grouped around the ancient church on the hill, together with a short scattered street, consisting mostly of cottages and mean habitations, running towards the sea: — she had accompanied him, we say, to this point, and after a tearful parting — tearful on her side, at least — had gazed wistfully after him till he gained the brow of the opposite hill, when he waved a farewell with the scarf she had embroidered for him, and disappeared from view. [Book the First, Chapter II, "Ovingdean Grange in the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one," page 14; first published in Bentley's Miscellany, Vol. 46 (1859): 449.]

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Bibliography

Ainsworth, William Harrison. Ovingdean Grange: A Tale of the South Downs. (1860). Illustrated by Phiz. Ainsworth's Works. London & New York: George Routledge, 1876.

Buchanan-Brown, John. Phiz! Illustrator of Dickens' World. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1978.

Lester, Valerie Browne. Phiz: The Man Who Drew Dickens. London: Chatto and Windus, 2004.

Vann, J. Don. "William Harrison Ainsworth's Ovingdean Grange: A Tale of the South Downs in Bentley's Miscellany, November 1859 — July 1860." Victorian Novels in Serial. New York: Modern Language Association, 1985, pp. 30-31.

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