Note 12 to Chapter 9 of the author's George Eliot and the Visual Arts, which Yale University Press published in a 1979. It has been included in the Victorian web with the kind permission of the author, who of course retains copyright.
For other statements of this principle, see Hamerton, Portfolio Papers, p. 312; Ralph Cohen, The Art of Discrimination, pp. 2, 250-54; and Anthony Burton, "Cruikshank as an Illustrator of Fiction," in George Cruikshank: A Revaluation, ed. Robert L. Patten, special number of The Princeton University Library Chronicle, 35 (1973-74), 93. On the interpretive element in Pre-Raphaelite illustration, see White, English Illustration, p. 106, Reid, Illustrators of the Sixties, pp. 31-32; Laurence Housman, Arthur Boyd Houghton (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1896), p. 13; and Allan R. Life, "The Periodical Illustrations of John Everett Millais and Their Literary Interpretation," Victorian Periodicals Newsletter, 9 (June 1976), 50-68.
[Materials available after the publication of George Eliot and the Visual Arts: see the extensive materials in the Victorian Web on book illustration by these and other artists. GPL]
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