Title

We have been favoured with [the first of a series of lithographic illustrations for Pickwick Papers to be published by Dowling.]

Author

Colonial Times.

Source

Colonial Times (Hobart)

Details

27 April 1838, page 7, column 3.

Publication date

27 April 1838

Type

News | Publication Review

Language

English

Country of context

Australia

Full text

We have been favoured with the first of a series of Lithographic Illustrations, which Mr. Dowling is preparing for the Pickwick Papers ; it is the frontispiece, and represents the immortal Pickwick, in his library, sitting in a contemplative posture, in his easy chair, after dinner, with spectacle on nose, and gaiter on leg. The equally immortal Sam is expounding to his attentive master some knotty point of his philosophy, and whether the easy, quiet, benevolent placidity of the great man himself, or the shrewd humour depicted on the countenance of Sam is the most admirable, we cannot tell. There is, indeed, great character in the work, and if the other etchings only equal this, we may safely pronounce upon the success of the undertaking. It is incomparably the best specimen of engraving, we have yet seen produced in the Colony; and we heartily congratulate both Mr. Dowling and the artist upon the excellence of their production, which we venture to affirm will be as anxiously looked for, as was ever the unrivalled narrative itself.

[Colonial Times (Hobart), 27 April 1838, p.7, col.3.]
 

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