Sol eytinge biography
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A century ago, the most famous American illustrator of Dickens'sworks was Felix Octavious Carr Darley(), whowas the lead artist of the American "Household Edition," initiated in byHoughton, Mifflin (New York and Boston).
Sol eytinge biography
However, challenging FredericG. Kitton'sjudgment about the greatest Dickens illustrator on the other side ofthe Atlantic,J. A. Hammerton notes
Another very successful American illustrator of Dickens was SolEytinge, Junr., whose chief work was devoted to the Diamond Edition of Dickens,inaugurated by Ticknor & Fields in , though on many other occasions hefound subjects in the great English novelist for the exercise of his s himself said of Eytinge's illustrations: "They are remarkable alike fora delicate perception of beauty, a lively eye for character, a most agreeableabsence of exaggeration, and a general modesty and propriety which I greatlylike." This expression of opinion is especially valuable in view of the factthat certain of the qualities here enumerated b