Frontispiece: John and Dot Peerybingle before the Fire

Daniel Maclise and J. Thompson (engraver)

1845

Wood engraving

16.3 cm high x 9.7 cm wide (6 ½ by 3 ⅞ inches), framed

Frontispiece: full-page illustration for Dickens's The Cricket on the Hearth: "Chirp the First," facing Maclise's engraved title showing the Moorish reaper on the Dutch clock.

Daniel Maclise, a Royal Academician, possessed a style of illustration markedly different from that of the lead artist on the project, John Leech (essentially a caricaturist and cartoonist); however, by leaving publication so late in the autumn of 1845 Dickens could not rely on a single illustrator to meet his publication deadline.

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Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham.

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