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American-born but European-trained artist C. S. [Charles Stanley] Reinhart's sixteen plates for Charles Dickens's Hard Times. For These Times appeared in the single-volume, American version of the Household Edition published in 1876 by Harper & Brothers. (This slender, 328-page volume also contains The Uncommercial Traveller and The Mystery of Edwin Drood.) Reinhart's"Parisian" style of illustration, just in vogue when the American Household edition of Hard Times was published in the 1870s, is a severe departure from the careful detailism of Fred Walker and Harry French, the novel's previous (British) illustrators. Simon Houfe's remarks about C. S. Reinhart's penmanship conveying a sense of colouring without the actual use of any pigmentation are certainly applicable to his work on this short Dickens novel, first published weekly in Household Words between 1 April and 12 August in 1854.

Bibliography

Dickens, Charles. Hard Times for These Times. Illustrated by C. S. Reinhart. The Household Edition. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1876.

Houfe, Simon. The Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century B ritish Book Illustrators and Caricaturists. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors' Club, 1978.

Pennell, Joseph. The Adventures of An Illustrator Mostly in Following His Authors in America and Europe. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1925.


Created 19 May 2011

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