The Illustrations of Richard Doyle, 1824-83

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Biographical and Critical Discussions

• Biography
• Doyle as a Satirist and Parodist
• New Readings in the Art of Richard Doyle
• Doyle and the Conventions of Fairy Art

Works

• Principal Books illustrated by Doyle
• Lithographs
• Watercolors

The Chimes by Charles Dickens (1843)

• The Dinner on the Steps
• Trotty at Home
• Trotty Veck among the Bells
• Margret and her Child

The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens (1843)

• Chirp the First
• Chirp the Second
• Chirp the Third

The Battle of Life by Charles Dickens (1843)

• Part the First
• Part the Second
• Part the Third

The Scouring of the White Horse by Thomas Hughes (1859)

• Title Page
• Frontispiece [The Great Battle of Ashdown in 871 AD]
• Decorative initial [Richard Easy and his Employer]
• The White Horse
• St. George and the Dragon
• Gathering at the White Horse Fair
• Backswording
• Footrace
• Chasing the Greased Pig

Ruskin's The King of the Golden River

• Cover and back of First Edition

• Frontispiece
• Title Page
• Half Title
• Decorative letters "IN" (Ch. I)
• Decorative letter "S" (Ch. II)
• Gluck and His Visitor
• Decorative initial "T" (Ch. III)
• Hans drinks from his flask
• Decorative initial "P" (Ch. IV)
• Schwartz climbed the steep rock path
• Decorative initial "W" (Ch. V)
• He went to the priest, and the priest gave him some holy wate
• Gluck revives the young child
• Schwartz and Hans drink while Gluck works
• Gluck looks out the window at Treasure Valley

Miscellaneous

• Jack the Giant Killer
• The Sleeping Beauty
• Rebecca and Rowena
• A Railway Station . . . Showynge ye Travellers Refreshyng Themselvess
• A Science and Art Conversazione
• Elves engaged upon the Restoration of Jacob Pout's Enchanted Doll
• The Foreign Tour of Brown, Jones and Robinson
• Dick Doyle Surrounded by Malevolent Fairies
• Front cover of Punch

Related Material, including other illustrators in the Doyle family

• A Doyle Gallery
• Charles Altamont Doyle (1832–93)
• James Doyle (1797–1868)

Bibliography

Cooke, Simon. 'A Forgotten Illustration by Richard Doyle.'Studies in Illustration, 26 (Spring 2004): 32-34.

Cooke, Simon. 'Notable Books: Richard Doyle's In Fairyland'. The Private Library, Fifth Series, 8:4 (Winter 2005): 153-171.

Engen, Rodney. Richard Doyle. Stroud: The Catalpa Press, 1983.

Hambourg, Daria. Richard Doyle. London: Art & Technics, 1948.

Maas, Jeremy. Victorian Painting. London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1978.

Muir, Percy. Victorian Illustrated Books. London: Batsford, 1971; revised ed., 1985.

The Brothers Dalziel, A Record of Work, 1840-1890 . Foreword by Graham Reynolds. 1901; reprinted London: Batsford, 1978.

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Last modified 15 June 2013