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.
On the Sixties school, see Gleeson White, English Illustration: The Sixties' (1897; rpt. Bath: Kingsmead Reprints, 1970); Joseph Pennell, Modern Illustration (London: George Bel1, 1895); George and Edward Dalziel, The Brothers Dalziel; Forrest Reid, Illustrators of the Sixties (1928; rpt. New York: Dover Publications, 1975); T. S. R. Boase, English Art 1800-1876 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1959), pp. 288-91; and N. John Hall, "Millais's Illustrations for Trollope," University of Pennsylvania Library C'hronicle, 42 (Spring 1977), 23-45. See John Harvey, Victorian Novelists and Their Illustrators(London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1970), p. 161, and Anthony Burton, "Thackeray's Collaborations with Cruikshank, Doyle, and Walker," Costerus, 2 (1974), 174. See Reid, Illustrators of the Sixties, p. 207. Fra Bartolommeo's famous portrait of Savonarola is evoked in chapter 15 of Romola and was a central inspiration of the novel (Letters, III, 295). .
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