Dickens and His Illustrators / Cruikshank, Seymour, Buss, "Phiz," Cattermole, Leech, Doyle, Stanfield, Maclise, Tenniel, Frank Stone, Landseer, Palmer, Topham, Marcus Stone, and Luke Fildes / 2nd. Ed.

by Frederic George Kitton

FOOTNOTES:

[28] Partner in the firm of Chapman & Hall.

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Plate XXXVIII

GEORGE CATTERMOLE
From an Unpublished Photograph by LAKE PRICE

Lent by the Artist's Daughter, Mrs. Edward Franks.

GEORGE CATTERMOLE

First Acquaintance with Dickens—Declines Offer of Knighthood—Favourite Subjects for Pictures—"Master Humphrey's Clock"—A Letter from Dickens respecting the Illustrations—Cattermole's Designs Copied on Wood by "Phiz" and Samuel Williams—Some Dickens Correspondence—Minute Directions to the Artist—Design for Frontispiece—Useful Hints and Suggestions—The "Maypole" Inn—"Grip," the Raven—Subjects for "Barnaby Rudge"—An Unpublished Letter from Cattermole to Dickens—Closing Chapters of the Story—The Novelist Approves of the Illustrations—Frontispiece for the First Cheap Edition of "The Old Curiosity Shop"—Water-colour Drawings of "Little Nell's Home" and "Little Nell's Grave"—Dickens's Gratitude to Cattermole—Death of the Artist—His Vivacity and Good-fellowship.