Sergeant Delves Reprimanded by Phiz (Hablot K. Browne), seventh serial illustration for William Harrison Ainsworth's Ovingdean Grange: A Tale of the South Downs, Part 7 (May 1860), Book the Seventh, "Captain Tattersall of the Swiftsure," Chapter I, "How Sergeant Delves was Reprimanded by his Leader." 10.0 cm high by 15.3 cm wide, wood-engraving, vignetted, facing p. 213. Source: Ainsworth's Works (1882), originally published in Bentley's Miscellany, and, upon its completion as a serial, in volume form by George Routledge and Sons, London (July 1860). [Click on the image to enlarge it.]
Passage Illustrated
"Dispatch me, captain, without pity," the sergeant rejoined. "I deserve to die. You cannot be more angered with me than I am with myself. Were I to live a hundred years, instead of only so many seconds, I should never regain my own good opinion. To think that I, who have been signalled out for public commendation by the Lord General himself — who have been deemed worthy of your confidence, captain — who prided myself upon strictness of discipline, and blind obedience to the orders of my superior, that I should have failed on all points! — it is too much — it is more than I can bear. Place your pistol at my head, and finish me.” [Book VII, "Captain Tattersall of the Swiftsure," Chapter I, "How Sergeant Delves was Reprimanded by his Leader," 212-213 ]
Working methods
- Phiz's Illustrations for William Harrison Ainsworth's Ovingdean Grange (1859-60)
- "Phiz" — artist, wood-engraver, etcher, and printer
- Etching, Wood-engraving, or Lithography in Phiz's Illustrations for A Tale of Two Cities?
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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. 30-31.
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Last modified 28 December 2020