The Charles Dickens Illustrated Gallery

Beautiful, clean scans and a nice website. Thank you Michael.

I love this style of illustration. As someone who dabbles in pen-and-ink illustrations, I am always so impressed to see it done well, and pleased to have a new reference to go off of in my learning.

Three cheers for the public domain, and those who take the time to archive it and make it accessible!

Thank you for this!

I know that Cruikshank was the original illustrator of many of Dickens's novels, but I prefer the artwork of James Mahoney. As a point of comparison, the same scene by both artists:

1. "Oliver Rather Astonishes Noah", https://imgur.com/a/DWeblXT, as illustrated by James Mahoney.

2. "Oliver Plucks up a Spirit", https://www.charlesdickensillustration.org/oliver-twist?pgid..., as illustrated by George Cruikshank.

I scanned and vectorized all the artwork for "Oliver Twist" and typeset it at http://ahmadsoft.org/downloads/Oliver%20Twist,%20or,%20The%2... (warning, it's a large PDF due to the high resolution vector imagery), but then I started a company in 2020, and haven't had time to finish "Little Dorit", which, compared to "Oliver Twist", I was able to scan at a much higher resolution and get better quality.