Richard Doyle
(1824 - 1883)
Richard “Dickie” Doyle came from a family of artists that included his father John Doyle and two brothers James and Charles. He was the uncle of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Like Andrew Wyeth, he learned to draw from his father and completed his first book illustrations at the age of twelve.
He illustrated works by Dickens and Thackeray and specialized in fairy tales, including The King of the Golden River and his masterpiece In Fairyland by William Allingham.
The illustrations were later the subject of a book by Andrew Lang entitled The Princess Nobody.
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Bibliography
The Adventures of a Watch (1864)
Tells the story of a French family through the observations of a watch. Read online at Google.
Almanack of the Month (1846)
A review of current events which ran for one year and was published in two volumes. Read for free online at HathiTrust: Volume 1 and Volume 2.
Gilbert Abbott à Beckett
Horace Mayhew
The Attractive Picture Book (1865)
This is a collection of wood block prints, which includes those from Richard Doyle’s The Story of Jack and the Giants among others.
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The Battle of Life (1846)
A story of love and self sacrifice set in a rural village. Read online at archive.org.
John Leech
Daniel Maclise
Clarkson Stanfield
Beauty and the Beast (1973)
This is a reproduction of an unpublished manuscript. The translation is by Adelaide Doyle; the illustrations by her brother Richard.
Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, KG in Upwards of 100 Cartoons (1878)
The career of the British Prime Minister and novelist as depicted in the cartoons published in Punch. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
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Bird’s Eye Views of Society (1864)
A collection of pictures of people gathered together for social events in Victorian England. Read online at archive.org.
The Book of Ballads (1849)
This collection of humorous verse went through many editions. This is the first with illustrations by Richard Doyle. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
Bon Gaultier
Theodore Martin
Alfred Henry Forrester
The Brothers Dalziel (1901)
A history of the Brothers Dalziel and their engraving and printing business. Read online at archive.org.
George Dalziel
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Burlesques: Novels by Eminent Hands (1869)
Includes Jeames’s Diary, Adventures of Major Gahagan, A Legend of the Rhine, The History of the Next French Revolution, Cox’s Diary and Rebecca and Rowena.
There were many other editions in the collected works of Thackeray. But Doyle appears to have illustrated only Rebecca and Rowena.
Read for free online at HathiTrust.
William Makepeace Thackeray
A Chaplet of Verses (1862)
A collection of religious verse. Read online at archive.org.
The Chimes (1845)
The goblins ringing the chimes show old Trotty a dystopian future for his family -- he wakes determined to do all he can to avert it. Read online at archive.org.
John Leech
Daniel Maclise
Clarkson Stanfield
Christmas Books (1869)
An omnibus containing the five Christmas books: A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain, and The Battle of Life.
Charles Keene
John Leech
Comic Histories, with Tommy and the Lion (1885)
A collection of humorous illustrations of scenes from English history with captions by the author’s brother. Tommy and the Lion was the last production of the artist. The Scenes were published the next year in color.
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The Cricket on the Hearth (1846)
This the the most popular of Dickens’ Christmas books tells a domestic story of the Peerybingle family. Read online at archive.org.
Edwin Landseer
John Leech
Daniel Maclise
Clarkson Stanfield
Dick Doyle’s Journal (1885)
An illustrated journal kept by the artist for the year 1840, when he was fifteen. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
The Doyle Fairy Book (1890)
A collection of twenty-nine longer fairy tales. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
The Early Writings of William Makepeace Thackeray (1888)
A selection of some of Thackeray’s early works with illustrations. Read online at archive.org.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Richard Doyle
William Makepeace Thackeray
Easy Reading for Little Readers (1880)
A collection of fables and stories, including The Story of Jack and the Giants by Richard Doyle. Read online at the University of Florida.
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The Enchanted Crow and Other Famous Fairy Tales (1871)
A collection of six fairy tales. The cover has a paste-on colored version of this illustration. This is a reprint of part of Fairy Tales from All Nations. Read online at Internet Archive.