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The illustrated letters of Richard Doyle to his father, 1842-1843 / edited with an introduction and afterword by Grant F. Scott.
LIBRA NC978.5.D68 A3 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Doyle, Richard, 1824-1883, author.
- Series:
- Series in Victorian Studies
- Series in Victorian studies
- Standardized Title:
- Correspondence. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Doyle, Richard, 1824-1883--Correspondence.
- Doyle, Richard.
- Doyle, John, 1797-1868--Correspondence.
- Doyle, John.
- Doyle, John, 1797-1868.
- Doyle, Richard, 1824-1883.
- Illustrators--England--Correspondence.
- Illustrators.
- London (England)--In art.
- London (England).
- England.
- Genre:
- Correspondence.
- Personal correspondence.
- Art.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 347 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : Ohio University Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- "Before he joined the staff of Punch and designed its iconic front cover, illustrator Richard "Dicky" Doyle was a young man whose father (political caricaturist John Doyle) charged him with sending a weekly letter, even though they lived under the same roof. This volume collects the fifty-three illustrated missives in their entirety for the first time and provides an uncommon peek into the intimate but expansive observations of a precocious social commentator and artist. In a series of vivid manuscript canvases, Doyle observes Victorian customs and society. He visits operas, plays, and parades. He watches the queen visiting the House of Commons and witnesses the state funeral of the Duke of Sussex. He is caught up in the Chartist riots of August 1842 and is robbed during one of the melees. And he provides countless illustrations of ordinary people strolling in the streets and swarming the parks and picture galleries of the metropolis. The sketches offer a fresh perspective on major social and cultural events of London during the early 1840s by a keen observer not yet twenty years old. Doyle's epistles anticipate the modern comic strip and the graphic novel, especially in their experimentation with sequential narrative and their ingenious use of space. The letters are accompanied by a full biographical and critical introduction with new material about Doyle's life"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780821421857
- 0821421859
- OCLC:
- 921611407
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