I parted from him, poor fellow, at the corner of the the street, with his great kite at his back, a very monument of human misery. Thirty-fifth illustration by Fred Barnard for the 1872 Household Edition of David Copperfield (Chapter XXXV, "Depression," but situated on p. 241). Half-page, 10.8 cm by 13.9 cm (4 ¼ by 5 ½ inches), framed. Headline: "Mr. Dick Under Reverses" (249). [Click on the image to enlarge it. Mouse over text for links.]
Passage illustrated: Peggotty, Mr. Dick, and his Great Kite
Sol Eytinge, Jr.'s full-page study of her mildly demented companion and
David's aunt in the Diamond Edition:
"Trot, my dear," said my aunt, when she saw me making preparations for compounding her usual night-draught, "No!"
"Nothing, aunt?"
"Not wine, my dear. Ale."
"But there is wine here, aunt. And you always have it made of wine."
"Keep that, in case of sickness," said my aunt. ‘We mustn’t use it carelessly, Trot. Ale for me. Half a pint."
I thought Mr. Dick would have fallen, insensible. My aunt being resolute, I went out and got the ale myself. As it was growing late, Peggotty and Mr. Dick took that opportunity of repairing to the chandler’s shop together. I parted from him, poor fellow, at the corner of the street, with his great kite at his back, a very monument of human misery. [Chapter XXXV, "Depression," 249]
Related Material
- David Copperfield (homepage)
- Phiz's 40 serial illustrations for David Copperfield (May 1849 - November 1850)
- O. C. Darley's Frontispiece in the New York edition (Vol. 1, 1862)
- O. C. Darley's Frontispiece in the New York edition (Vol. 2, 1862)
- O. C. Darley's Frontispiece in the New York edition (Vol. 3, 1862)
- Sol Eytinge, Junior's 16 Diamond Edition Illustrations (1867)
- W. H. C. Groome's 7 illustrations for the Collins Clear-type Pocket Edition, Vol. I (1907)
- Kyd's five Player's Cigarette Cards, 1910
- Harry Furniss's 29 Illustrations for Dickens's The Personal Experience and History of David Copperfield in the Charles Dickens Library Edition (1910)
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Bibliography
Dickens, Charles. The Personal History of David Copperfield, illustrated by Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"). The Centenary Edition. London & New York: Chapman & Hall, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911 [rpt. from 1850]. 2 vols.
_______. David Copperfield, with 61 illustrations by Fred Barnard. Household Edition. London: Chapman and Hall, 1872. Vol. 3.
_______. David Copperfield. Illustrated by W. H. C. Groome. London and Glasgow: Collins Clear-type Press, 1907. No. 1.
The copy of the Household Edition from which this picture was scanned was the gift of George Gorniak, Editor of The Dickens Magazine, whose subject for the fifth series, beginning in January 2010, is this novel.
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