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.
- Frontispiece. Plate 1: And Through Humility, And Sorrow, And Forgiveness, He Had Gone To His Redeemer's Rest. (220)
- Title-page vignette. Thumbnail: Sissy Jupe and the Nine Oils (facing the volume's frontispiece, Time and His Wife, See page 91)
- Plate 2: No Caption: Mr. Gradgrind Catches Louisa and Tom at the Circus. Headpiece for Chapter I. "The One Thing Needful."
- Plate 3: "Father Must Have Gone Down to the Booth, Sir." Running Head: Mr. Bounderby Instructed in Terms of Art (133).
- Plate 4: "You were in the tiptop fashion, and all the rest of it," said Mr. Bounderby. Running Head: Gentility and Humility (139)
- Plate 5: "Heaven's Mercy, Woman! . . . . Hast Thou Come Back Again!" (146)
- Plate 6: The Creature Struggled, Struck Her, Seized Her by the Hair; But Rachael Had the Cup. Running Head: Stephen's Dream (153)
- Plate 7: "My Dear Louisa," returned Mr. Gradgrind, re-Assured and satisfied, "You Correct Me Justly. I Merely Wished to Discharge My Duty." (158)
- Plate 8: "The Lady is quite a philosopher, I am told?" (166)
- Plate 9: "My Sister Loo?" said Tom. "She Never Cared for Old Bounderby." Running Head: The Whelp Under A Spell (171)
- Plate 10: "Rachael, will you tell him — for you know how, without offense — that this is freely his, to help him on his way?" (180)
- Plate 11: "Oh, Tom! Tell me the truth!" (190)
- Plate 12: Mrs. Sparsit Saw with Delight that His Arm Embraced Her. Running Head: Mrs. Sparsit's Triumph (197)
- Plate 13: "Forgive me, pity me, help me!" Running Head: Sissy and Louisa (203)
- Plate 14: "If You Can't Get It Out, Ma''am," said Bounderby, "Leave me to get it out." (208)
- Plate 15: Rachael Caught Her in Both Arms, with a Scream That Resounded Over the Wide Landscape. Running Head: The Old Pit (217)
- Plate 16: The Father Buried His Face in His Hands, And the Son Stood in His Disgraceful Grotesqueness Biting Straw (224)
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.
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