Title The illustrated letters of Richard Doyle to his father, 1842-1843 / edited with an introduction and afterword by Grant F. Scott

Published Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 347 pages) : illustrations (some color) Series Series in Victorian studies Series in Victorian Studies. Contents Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Number 1; Number 2; Number 3; Number 4; Number 5; Number 6; Number 7; Number 8; Number 9; Number 10; Number 11; Number 12; Number 13; Number 14; Number 15; Number 16; Number 17; Number 18; Number 19; Number 20; Number 21; Number 22; Number 23; Number 24; Number 25; Number 26; Number 27; Number 28; Number 29; Number 30; Number 31; Number 32; Number 33; Number 34; Number 35; Number 36; Number 37; Number 38; Number 39; Number 40; Number 41; Number 42; Number 43; Number 44; Number 45; Number 46; Number 47; Number 48 Number 49Number 50; Number 51; Number 52; Number 53; Afterword; Gallery of Plates; Bibliography; Index 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-337) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Doyle, Richard, 1824-1883 -- Correspondence Doyle, John, 1797-1868 -- Correspondence SUBJECT Doyle, John, 1797-1868 fast Doyle, Richard, 1824-1883 fast Subject Illustrators -- England -- Correspondence ART -- History -- General. ART -- General. DESIGN -- History & Criticism. ART -- Techniques -- Drawing. Illustrators SUBJECT London (England) -- In art Subject England England -- London Genre/Form Art Personal correspondence Form Electronic book Author Scott, Grant F., editor ISBN 9780821445426 0821445421

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