"Mr. Paul Rooney" — Phiz's third wood-engraving and sixth illustration for Charles Lever's "Jack Hinton, The Guardsman" (February 1842)

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Mr. Paul Rooney

Evans

Phiz

February 1842 instalment

Wood-engraving

8 cm by 5 cm (3 ¼ by 2 inches), vignetted

Third wood-cut: sixth illustration for Charles Lever's Jack Hinton, The Guardsman (February 1842), embedded on page 46.

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Passage Illustrated: A City Lawyer transforms himself into a Country Squire

Scarcely, however, did the courts rise, when Paul, shaking from his shoulders the learned dust of the Exchequer, would dive into a small apartment which, in an obscure house in Mass-lane, he dignified by the name of his study. Short and few as were his moments of seclusion, they sufficed to effect in his entire man a complete and total change. The shrewd little attorney, that went in with a nisi prius grin, came out a round, pleasant-looking fellow, with a green coat of jockey cut, a buff waistcoat, white cords, and tops; his hat set jauntily on one side, his spotted neckcloth knotted in bang-up mode, — in fact, his figure the beau idéal of a west-country squire taking a canter among his covers before the opening of the hunting. [Chapter VII, "The Rooneys," 45]

The Other Eight Wood-cuts

Mr. Delany (p. 16)
Long Tim (p. 29)
Mrs. Paul Rooney (p. 48)
The Boys (p. 80)
Painting Latitat (p. 111)
Tipperary Joe (p. 177)
Mr. Harkin (p. 185)
Corny Delany (p. 215).

Bibliography

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

Lever, Charles. Jack Hinton, The Guardsman. Illustrated by Hablột Knight Browne (Phiz). London: Downey & Co., 1901. [First published serially in The Dublin University Magazine January through December 1842; and subsequently in a single volume, Dublin: William Curry, Jun. December 1842, pp. 396. Illustrated with wood and steel engravings by H. K. Browne: 27 full-page plates. 8vo, 396pp. Boston: Little, Brown, 1894; New York: Croscup, 1894. 2 vols.]

Stevenson, Lionel. Chapter VI, "Editor, 1839-1841." Dr. Quicksilver: The Life of Charles Lever. London: Chapman and Hall, 1939. 92-107.

Sutherland, John A. "Jack Hinton The Guardsman." The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford, Cal.: Stanford U. P., 1989, rpt. 1990. 323.

Thomson, David Croal. Life and Labours of Hablột Knight Browne, "Phiz". London: Chapman and Hall, 1884.

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