[Frederick, Lionel, and Sibylla] — illustration for ‘Verner’s Pride’ by Charles Keene

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[Frederick, Lionel, and Sibylla]

Charles Keene

13 December 1862

Wood engraving by Joseph Swain.

5 x 4 inches

Thirteenth illustration for Mrs Henry Wood’s Verner’s Pride in Once a Week 7 (13 December 1862): 687.

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Another moment of consultation between Frederick and Lionel and Sibylla in which Keene observes some of Wood’s details but ignores others and adds his own. Frederick does have a clay pipe in this mouth, as Wood specifies, but does not wear a ‘rough cap’. In the text there is no mention of his attitude, but in the illustration he is shown as louche and disengaged, with one leg lolling over the arm of the chair. This telling gesture is Keene’s invention, a neat visualization of the way in which Frederick ‘coolly’ (p.688) deals with the married couple. This approach continues the artist’s anti-Sensational treatment of Sensational material.

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