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Phiz

Male : Watercolourist & Illustrator, especially of Charles Dickens novels (after death of Robert Seymour). Married Miss Reynolds in 1840. An illness (probably polio) in 1867 left him partially blind and paralysed.
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Kennington, London

Date of Birth : 1815 Date of Death : 1882 Age : 66

Pseudonyms : Pseud of Hablot Knight Browne

Education : Botesdale School, Suffolk
W H AINSWORTH : Revelations of London (1844)
Old St Paul's
(1847)
Crichton
(1849)
Mervyn Clitheroe
(1851) (1858 Routledge)
The Spendthrift : A Tale
(1857 Routledge)
Ovingdean Grange : A Tale of the South Downs
(1860 Routledge)
ANON : The Legend of Cloth Fair
(1840)
Fiddle-Faddle's Sentimental Tour
(1845)
Longlost Found
(1847)
Aunt Mavor's Third Book of Nursery Rhymes
(1858)
Christmas Cheer
(1858)
Confessions of a Page
(1861)
Grimm's Goblins
(1860)
New Mysteries of London
(1860)
The Young Ragamuffin
(1866)
Ghost Wives
(1867)
The Frog He would A'Wooing Go
(1890)
R BROUGH : Ulf the Minstrel
(1859)
Lord BYRON : Poetical Works
(1854)
H CALDWELL : The Art of Doing Our Best
(1860)
Lady Pamela CAMPBELL : The Cabin by the Wayside
(1854)
William CARLETON : Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry
(1843) (1853)
Valentine McClutchy
(1846)
Edward CASWALL : Sketches of Young Ladies
(1837)
Morals from the Churchyard
(1838)
DAMOCLES : All About Kisses
(1875)
Daniel DEFOE : Robinson Crusoe
(1848)
DEMOCRITUS : Medical and Christian Dissection of Teetotalism
(1846)
Charles DICKENS : Sunday Under Three Heads
(1836)
Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
(1836-7)
Sketches of Young Gentlemen
(1838)
Nicholas Nickleby
(1839)
Sketches of Young Couples
(1840)
Master Humphrey's Clock
(1840)
(In) (Ed) The Pic-nic Papers (1841)
The Old Curiosity Shop
(1840-1)
Martin Chuzzlewit
(1844)
Dombey and Son
(1848)
David Copperfield
(1850)
Bleak House
(1853)
Little Dorrit
(1857)
A Tale of Two Cities
(1859)
Maria EDGEWORTH : The Parents' Assistant
(1864)
M B B EDWARDS : Snowflakes
(1862)
Henry FIELDING : Jonathan Wild
(1840)
Amelia
(1857)
Joseph Andrews
(1857)
Mrs GATTY : Legendary Tales
(1858)
James GRANT : Sketches in London
(1838)
Charles Butler GREATREX
(Lindon Meadows) : Dame Perkins and Her Grey Mare,
or The Mount for Market
(1866 Sampson Low)
George HALSE : Queen Loeta and the Mistletoe
(1857)
Agatha
(1861)
Sir Guy de Guy
(1864)
A Salad of Stray Leaves
(1882)
James HANNAY : Hearts are Trumps
(1849)
Ann, Lady HAWKSHAW : Aunt Effie's Rhymes for Little Children
(1852 Addey & Co) - Hablot K Browne
(1878 Routledge)
Thomas HOOD : Penny Readings
(1866)
T E HOOK : Precepts and Practice
(1840)
Peter Priggins
(1841)
G P R JAMES : The Commissioner
(1843)
The Fight of the Fiddlers
(1849)
W B JERROLD : The Disgrace to the Family
(1848)
Mary & Elizabeth KIRBY : The Discontented Children
(1855)
S LE FANU : The Fortunes of Colonel Torlogh O'Brien
(1851)
Ghost Stories
(1851)
M LEGRAND : The Cambridge Freshman
(1871)
Christian LE ROS : Christmas Day
(1854)
Mark LEMON : Tom Moody's Tales
(1864)
Charles LEVER : The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer
(1839 Wm Curry, Dublin) (1901 Downey)
Charles O'Malley : The Irish Dragoon
(1841 Curry) - 2 vols. Anon
Jack Hinton, the Guardsman
(1843 Curry) (1901 Downey - Phiz )
Tom Burke of Ours
(1843)
The O'Donoghue : A Tale of Ireland Fifty Years Ago
(1845 Wm Curry Jnr, Dublin) (1845 C & H)
St Patrick's Eve
(1845 Chapman & Hall)
The Knight of Gwynne : A Tale of the Time of the Union
(1847 Chapman & Hall)
The Confessions of Con Cregan : The Irish Gil Blas
(1849 Orr) - 2 vols.
Roland Cashell
(1850 Chapman & Hall)
The Daltons, or Three Roads in Life
(1852 Chapman & Hall) - 2 vols.
The Dodd Family Abroad
(1854 Chapman & Hall)
The Martins of Cro' Martin
(1856 Chapman & Hall)
Nuts and Nutcrackers
(1857)
Davenport Dunn : A Man of Our Day
(1859 C & H)
One of Them
(1861) (1872 Routledge)
Barrington
(1863 Chapman & Hall)
Luttrell of Arran
(1865 Chapman & Hall)
Samuel LOVER : Metrical Tales
(1850)
Bulwer LYTTON : Eugene Aram
(1849)
[He provided the frontispiece for this and many other Lytton novels]
J C MAITLAND : The Doll and Her Friends
(1852)
Cornelius MATHEWS : The Career of Puffer Hopkins
(1842)
W H MAXWELL : Rambling Recollections of a Soldier of Fortune
(1842)
Augustus MAYHEW : Paved with Gold
(1857)
Horace MAYHEW : Letters Left at the Pastrycooks
(1853)
The Image of His Father
(1848) - with Augustus Mayhew
Letters Left at a Pastry Cook's
(1854)
L MEADOWS : Dame Perkins and Her Grey Mare
(1866)
G T MILLER : Godfrey Malvern
(1842)
Harriet MYRTLE : A Day of Pleasure
(1853 Addey & Co) - Hablot K Browne
The Water Lily
(1854 T Bosworth) - Hablot K Browne
W J NEALE : Paul Periwinkle
(1841)
S OLIVER : The Old English Squire
(1838)
Robert PALTOCK : The Adventures of Peter Wilkins
(1860)
Cavendish PELHAM : Chonicles of Crime
(1841)
H C PENNELL : Puck on Pegasus
(1861)
'QUIZ' : Sketches of Young Ladies
(1837)
George RAYMOND : The Memoirs of R W Elliston
(1844)
A B REACH : The Romance of a Mince Pie
(1848)
G W M REYNOLDS : Robert Macaire in England
(1840)
J P ROBERTSON : Solomon Seesaw
(1839)
G H RODWELL : Memoirs of an Unbrella
(1845)
C H ROSS : The Strange Adventures of Two Single Gentlemen
(1864)
Charles ROWCROFT : Fanny the Little Milliner
(1846)
(In) Sir Walter SCOTT : Waverley Novels (1842 Abbotsford Edition, Volume 1)
(In) Waverley Novels (1846 Abbotsford Edition, Volume 10)
William SHAKESPEARE : Works
(1882)
Frank SMEDLEY : Lewis Arundel
(1852)
The Fortunes of the House of Colville
(1853)
Harry Coverdale's Courtship
(1854)
Albert SMITH : The Pottleton Legacy
(1849)
Sketches of Cantabs
(1850)
John SMITH : Irish Diamonds
(1847)
Tobias SMOLLETT : Humphrey Clinker
(1857)
Peregrine Pickle
(1857)
A E STOTHARD : A Peep at the Pixies
(1854)
Harriet Beecher STOWE : The Minister's Wooing
(1859)
R S SURTEES : Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities
(1838)
Hawbuck Grange
(1847)
Mr Romford's Hounds
(1865)
Jonathan SWIFT : Gulliver's Travels
(1861)
G W THORNBURY : The Buccaneers
(1858)
Anthony TROLLOPE : Can You Forgive Her ?
(1864)
Frances TROLLOPE : Charles Chesterfield
(1841)
J R WARE : The Fortunes of the House of Pennyl
(1860)
G & P WHARTON : Wits and Beaux of Society
(1860)
Captain Barabbas WHITEFEATHER : The Handbook of Swindling
(1839)
(In) Henry WINKLES : Cathedral Churches of England and Wales, Volume 1 (1836)
(In) Cathedral Churches of England and Wales, Volume 2 (1838)
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A Paper on Tobacco
(1839) - by Joseph Fume

H K BROWNE : Dombey and Son, the Four Portraits
(1848)
Dombey and Son, Full-length Portraits
(1848)
Four Plates to Illustrate the cheap Edition of 'The Old Curiosity Shop'
(1848)
Four Plates to Illustrate the cheap Edition of 'Barnaby Rudge'
(1849)
Home Pictures : Sixteen Domestic Scenes of Childhood
(1851 Cundall & Addey 12/- plain & 21/- coloured) - Hablot Knight Browne
Illustrations of the Five Sense
(1852)
Merry Pictures
(1857)
Hunting Bits
(1862)
London's Great outing
(1868)
Racing and Chasing
(1868)
Sketches of the Seaside and the Country
(1869)
Phiz's Baby Sweethearts
(1883)
Phiz's Funny Alphabet
(1883)
Phiz's Funny Stories
(1883)
Phiz's Merry Hours
(1883)

READING
F G Kitton : Phiz - a Memoir including a Selection from His Correspondence
(1882 W Satchell, London)
David Croal Thomson : Life and Labours of Hablot Knight Browne
(Phiz) (1884 Chapman & Hall) - 250
John Buchanan-Brown : Phiz ! The Book Illustrations of Hablot Knight Browne
(1978 David & Charles)
Valerie Browne Lester : Phiz, the Man Who Drew Dickerns
(2004 Random House £20)
[Browne's great-great-grandaughter]

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Daniel Defoe
Maria Edgeworth
Henry Fielding
Thomas Hood
Sir Walter Scott
William Shakespeare
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Anthony Trollope


See also

Folio Society
Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm
George Payne Rainsford James
Charles James Lever
Racism, Books On
Tobias George Smollett
Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe
Frances Milton Trollope