John McLenan's illustrations for "A Tale of Two Cities" (7 May through 26 November 1859) (original) (raw)

Introduction Title page [Dr. Manette released from his cell in the Bastille by an angel carrying keys] (7 May 1859) The figures of a hose and rider came slowly through the mist [Mr. Lorry and waiter at The Royal George, Dover], Bk 1 ch 4 He felt his wrist held closer, and he stopped [The St. Antoine mob scoops up the contents of the broken cask] "A white-haired man sat on a low bench, stooping forward and very busy, making shoes." He scrawled upon a wall with his finger dipped in muddy wine lees — blood." [Door with cobwebs]. Bk 1, ch 6 [girl and older man in prison] [girl and older man in prison] [Tellson's Bank], Bk II, ch 1 "You're at it again, are you?" [Attorney general speaking in courtBk II, ch 3, B The Prisoner and his double [Sydney Carton, intoxicated and unconscious, after working on legal papers]Bk II, ch 4 "The Lion and the Jackal." [(Mr. Lorry with his cane escorted home in the dark by Jerry Cruncher, holding a lantern], Bk II, ch 6 "Miss Pross and Mr. Lorry [Woman praying before a large crucifix in a cemetery], Bk II, ch 8 "'Killed!' shrieked the man." [bird singing on the ledge before a latticed window, presumably at the chateau of the Marquis] Bk II, ch 9 "This from Jacques." [Lucie Manette at the door of the house in Soho] Bk II, ch 10 "The tutor's request." [Dr. Manette, left, and Lucie, right, in the house in Soho] Two Promises [Young Jerry Cruncher is chased through a cemetery by an animated coffin] Bk II, ch 14 "Mr. Cruncher's Friends" [The assassin of the Marquis is hanging above the village fountain] "He described it as if he were there —" [a speck in a blue cap toiled through the darkness] "And stood with his hand on the back of his wife's chair" [Lucie and Dr. Manette at the door of their house in Soho] "'See!' said the Doctor of Beauvaise, etc. " [Charles Darnay and Lucie embrace] "The Auto da Fe" [Miss Pross and little Lucie in the garden] "In the name of all the angels or devils, work!" [The St. Antoine mob carries the head of Foulon through the streets on a pike] "He took out a blackened pipe." [Charles Darnay, on horseback, presumably going to aid Gabelle in France] "I know the fellow." [Charles Darnay in solitary confinement in La Force)] [Lucie and her daughter] "But such awful workers, and such awful work!" [Father and child wearing Jacobin caps play with miniature guillotine] "I call myself the Samson of the fire-wood guillotine" [The mob] The Citizen Evrémond, called Darnay [Armed Jacobins in the wineshop] "So you put him in his coffin." [Mr. Lorry and Jerry Cruncher, positioned as they are as chapter begins] "The Citizen Evrémonde, called Darnay" [Dr. Manette and the St. Evrémonde brothers at their coach] "I mark this cross of blood upon him, as a sign that I do it" [In Mr. Lorry's room in Paris] "I swear to you, like Evrémonde!" Bk II, ch 11 [In Darnay's cell in La Force] "Write exactly as I speak" [A Jacobin holds the severed head of a victim] Bk III, ch 14 "Like the soul of the furious woman whose body lay lifeless on the ground" [Three Jacobin women knit before the guillotine] "The two stand in the fast-thinning throng of victims, etc." (26 November 1859)

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