Biographical Materials
Critical Discussions
- Social Commentary and Victorian Illustration: The Representation of Working Class Life, 1837–1880
- Social Commentaries of the 1860s: from Dickens to the Idyllic School of Illustration
Four illustrations for Dickens's Hard Times (1868)
- Introduction
- Mr. Harthouse Dines at the Bounderbys
- Stephen and Rachel in the Sick-Room
- Mr. Harthouse and Tom Bounderby [sic] in the Garden
- Stephen Blackpool Recovered from the Old Hell Shaft
Ten Illustrations for Thackeray's The Adventures of Philip (1861-62)
- Waiting for Papa [The Chaplain's Daughter]
- The Fates
- Philip in Church
- Good Samaritans
- The Old Fogies
- Nurse and Doctor
- The Poor Helping the Poor
- Paterfamilias
- The Quarrel
- At the Sick Man's Door
Seven Illustrations for Thackeray's Denis Duval from the Cornhill (1864)
- Denis Duval's Valet
- Little Denis Dances and Sings before the Navy Gentleman
- Last Moments of the Count of Saverne
- Evidence for the Defence
- Initial letter (April 1864)
- Initial letter (May 1864)
- Initial letter (June 1864)
Miscellaneous Illustrations
- "The Schoolboy's Story" by Dickens
- The Nursing Friend by George Crabbe
- A Lament by Amelia Opie
- A Child in Prayer by Aris Willmott
- Weeping Cupid
- Out Among The Wild Flowers
- Let Us Drink to the Health of the Absent
- A Vacarme
- Out of the World
- The Village on the Cliff
- Oswald Cray
- Esmond
- Broken Victuals
- The Vagrants
- Spring Days
- Summer Days
- Autumn Days
- Winter Days
- The Lost Path
- Portrait of a Minister
- The Bit o' Garden
- Rainy Day at Cookham
- Our Village: Cookham
- Rain
- The Fishmonger
Posters, Invitations, and Caricatures
- The Woman in White
- The Temptation of St. Anthony Walker
- Captain Jinks of the 'Selfish' and His Friends Enjoying Themselves on the River
- Invitation Card for Mr. Arthur Lewis
- Invitation Card for the Moray Minstrels
- Poster advertising the Moray Minstrels (1865)
- Invitation Card for the Moray Minstrels (1866)
Books Illustrated in whole or part by Walker
- W. M. Thackeray, The Adventures of Philip (London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1862).
- W. M. Thackeray, âDenis Duval (The Cornhill, 1864).
- George Dalziel, A Round of Days (London: Routledge, 1866).
- R. W. Buchnan, Wayside Posies (London: Routledge, 1867).
- W. M. Thackeray, Denis Duval (London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1867).
- Charles Dickens, Hard Times The Illustrated Library Edition. (London:âChapman & Hall,â1868).
Bibliography
Armstrong, Walter. "Walker, Frederick."â Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 20. 1909. Pp. 508-510.
Black, Clementina. Frederick Walker. New York: Dutton; London: Duckworth, 1902.
Chesterton, Gilbert. Famous Paintings. London, New York, and Toronto: Cassell, 1912.
Dickens, Charles. Hard Times and Pictures from Italy. One vol. London: Chapman and Hall,1868.
"Frederick
Walker." Online version available from Spartacus Educational
at www.spartacus-educational.com. Web. 10âJuly 2018. Hammerton, J. A. The Dickens Picture-Book.
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Southwilts.com.. Web. 8 July 2018. Muir, Percy. Chapter 6, "The Dalziel Era." Victorian
Illustrated Books. London: B. T. Batsford, 1971. Pp. 129-148. Phillips, Claude. Frederick Walker and His
Works. London: Seeley & Co., 1905. Facing p. 48. Reid, Forrest. Illustrators of the Eighteen Sixties:
An Illustrated Survey of the Work of 58 British Artists. New York: Dover, 1975.
Originally published by Faber and Gwyer in London, 1928, as Illustrators of the Sixties. Thackeray, W. M. The Adventures of Philip,
serialized in The Cornhill Magazine. London: Smith Elder,
1862. Last modified 26 April 2019