Author: Valerie Lester
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446483932
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
'Phiz' - Hablot Knight Browne - was the great illustrator of Dickens' fiction. For over twenty-three years they worked together, and Phiz's drawings brought to life a galaxy of much-loved characters, from Mr Pickwick, Nicholas Nickleby and Mr Micawber, to Little Nell and David Copperfield. But, from the mystery of his birth onwards, Phiz himself led a life as rich as any novel. In this vivid, lively memoir - the first full biography, long-awaited by Victorian scholars - his great-great-granddaughter Valerie Browne Lester tracks the struggles of the abandoned Browne family and follows Phiz's path to marriage and fame, his travels around England and Ireland and work with Dickens, Lever, Trollope and others, and his colourful private life. Based on a mass of unpublished material, this enchanting book, packed with surprising and delicious illustrations, is a perfect present for all who love Dickens and enjoy the hidden byways of Victorian life.
Phiz
Author: Valerie Lester
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446483932
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
'Phiz' - Hablot Knight Browne - was the great illustrator of Dickens' fiction. For over twenty-three years they worked together, and Phiz's drawings brought to life a galaxy of much-loved characters, from Mr Pickwick, Nicholas Nickleby and Mr Micawber, to Little Nell and David Copperfield. But, from the mystery of his birth onwards, Phiz himself led a life as rich as any novel. In this vivid, lively memoir - the first full biography, long-awaited by Victorian scholars - his great-great-granddaughter Valerie Browne Lester tracks the struggles of the abandoned Browne family and follows Phiz's path to marriage and fame, his travels around England and Ireland and work with Dickens, Lever, Trollope and others, and his colourful private life. Based on a mass of unpublished material, this enchanting book, packed with surprising and delicious illustrations, is a perfect present for all who love Dickens and enjoy the hidden byways of Victorian life.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446483932
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
'Phiz' - Hablot Knight Browne - was the great illustrator of Dickens' fiction. For over twenty-three years they worked together, and Phiz's drawings brought to life a galaxy of much-loved characters, from Mr Pickwick, Nicholas Nickleby and Mr Micawber, to Little Nell and David Copperfield. But, from the mystery of his birth onwards, Phiz himself led a life as rich as any novel. In this vivid, lively memoir - the first full biography, long-awaited by Victorian scholars - his great-great-granddaughter Valerie Browne Lester tracks the struggles of the abandoned Browne family and follows Phiz's path to marriage and fame, his travels around England and Ireland and work with Dickens, Lever, Trollope and others, and his colourful private life. Based on a mass of unpublished material, this enchanting book, packed with surprising and delicious illustrations, is a perfect present for all who love Dickens and enjoy the hidden byways of Victorian life.
Phiz
Author: H.K Browne
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752379464
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Phiz by H.K Browne
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752379464
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Phiz by H.K Browne
"Phiz" (Hablot Knight Browne), a Memoir
Author: Frederic George Kitton
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
"Phiz" is a biography about Hablot Knight Browne, an English artist and illustrator. Well-known by his pen name, Phiz, he illustrated books by Charles Dickens, Charles Lever, and Harrison Ainsworth. Excerpt: "Fizz, Whizz, or something of that sort," humorous Tom Hood would say when trying to recall the pseudonym that has since become so familiar using the innumerable works of art to which it was appended. At the time Hablot Knight Browne first used this quaint sobriquet, it was customary to look upon book-illustrators as second, or even third-rate artists—mere hacks..."
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
"Phiz" is a biography about Hablot Knight Browne, an English artist and illustrator. Well-known by his pen name, Phiz, he illustrated books by Charles Dickens, Charles Lever, and Harrison Ainsworth. Excerpt: "Fizz, Whizz, or something of that sort," humorous Tom Hood would say when trying to recall the pseudonym that has since become so familiar using the innumerable works of art to which it was appended. At the time Hablot Knight Browne first used this quaint sobriquet, it was customary to look upon book-illustrators as second, or even third-rate artists—mere hacks..."
"Phiz" (Hablot Knight Browne)
Author: Frederic George Kitton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illustrators
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illustrators
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Life and Labours of Hablôt Knight Browne, "Phiz"
Author: David Croal Thomson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Phiz and Dickens
Author: Edgar Browne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
"Phiz" (Hablot Knight Browne), a Memoir. Including a Selection from His Correspondence and Notes on His Principal Works. [With a Portrait.]
Author: Frederic George Kitton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
A Shillingsworth of Phiz!
Author: Charles Henry Ross
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Phiz and Dickens as They Appeared to Edgar Browne
Author: Edgar Browne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors and artists
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors and artists
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
The history of Amelia, with illustr. by Phiz
Author: Henry Fielding
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description