John McLenan's "Harper's Weekly" Illustrations of "Great Expectations" (1860-61) (original) (raw)

• Introduction to the plates
• Plate One [The gibbet on the marshes]
• Plate Two: "You young dog!" said the man, licking his lips at me, "What fat cheeks you ha' got!"
• Plate Three: "Pip, old chap! You'll do yourself a mischief. It'll stick somewhere. You can't have chawed it, Pip.""
• Plate Four: "You're not a false imp? You brought no one with you?"
• Plate Five: But he was down on the rank wet grass, filing at his iron like a madman."
• Plate Six: "Oh, Un-cle Pum-ble-chook! This is kind!"
• Plate Seven [Three soldiers, carrying torches, are leading Magwitch, centre, away in chains.]
• Plate Eight: Then Joe began to hammer and clink, hammer and clink."
• Plate Nine: [Mrs. Joe roughly washes and dries Pip's face]
• Plate Ten: "At such times as your sister is on the ram-page, Pip."
• Plate Eleven: "Who is it?" said the lady at the table. "Pip, Ma'am."
• Plate Twelve: "Leave this lad to me, Ma'am; leave this lad to me."
• Plate Thirteen: "It's a great cake. A bride-cake. Mine!"
• Plate Fourteen: "Which I meantersay, Pip." Note: The January 19 (i. e., ninth) instalment was not illustrated, and no instalment appeared in the January 26 issue of Harper's.
• Plate Fifteen [Pip and Biddy sitting on a bank in the Marshes].
• Plate Sixteen: "Hulloa!" he growled; "Where are you two going?"" [Orlick, Pip, and Biddy]
• Plate Seventeen: [Scene: Saturday night at the Three Jolly Bargemen]
• Plate Eighteen: "Pip's a gentleman of fortune, then" said Joe, "and God bless him in it!"
• Plate Nineteen [Pip and Joe on the marshes]
• Plate Twenty: "And may I — May I —?"
• Plate Twenty-one: "You infernal scoundrel, how dare you tell me that?"
• Plate Twenty-two: "I hope your Mama is quite well?"
• Plate Twenty-three: "This chap murdered his master."
• Plate Twenty-four: "Molly, let them see both your wrists. Show them. Come!"
• Plate Twenty-five: "Pip, how are you, Pip?"
• Plate Twenty-six: We walked round the garden twice or thrice more, etc.
• Plate Twenty-seven: "Hold me! I'm so frightened!"
• Plate Twenty-eight: "If I say yes, may I kiss the cheek again?"
• Plate Twenty-nine: "Dear Joe, how are you?"
• Plate Thirty: The responsible duty of making the toast was delegated to the Aged.
• Plate Thirty-one: She carried a bare candle in her hand, etc.

Note: The May 11, 18, and 25 (i. e., the twenty-fourth through twenty-sixth) instalments were not illustrated, perhaps because Harper's was providing extensive pictorial coverage of the Civil War, depicting camps, fortresses, and battles — e. g., Camp Curtin, Near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, a Rendezvous of the Pennsylvania Volunteers. — [Sketched by Jasper Green, Esq.] on page 301 takes up three of the four columns, the fourth being the start of Chapter 38 of Great Expectations. A Civil War scene also occupies the space that might otherwise have been devoted to McLenan illustrations on p. 318.

• Plate Thirty-two: "All done, all gone!"
• Plate Thirty-three: "Look here," said Herbert.
• Plate Thirty-four: Let me sit listening as I would, with dread, etc. 11.5 cm wide by 12 cm high.
• Plate Thirty-five: I saw her running at me, shrieking, with a whirl of fire blazing all about her, etc.
• Plate Thirty-six: "Know him!" repeated the landlord. "Ever since he was no height at all."
• Plate Thirty-seven: He was taken on board, and instantly manacled at the wrists and ankles.
• Plate Thirty-eight: The placid look at the white ceiling came back, and passed away, and his head dropped quietly on his breast.
• Plate Thirty-nine: Joe now sat down to his great work, etc.
• Plate Forty: I saw the shadow of no parting from her.

Other Artists’ Illustrations for Dickens's Great Expectations

• Edward Ardizzone (2 plates selected)
• H. M. Brock (8 lithographs)
• J. Clayton Clarke ("Kyd") (2 lithographs from watercolours)
• Felix O. C. Darley (4 photogravure plates)
• Sol Eytinge, Jr. (8 wood engravings)
• Marcus Stone (8 wood engravings)
• Frederic W. Pailthorpe (21 coloured lithographs)
• Harry Furniss (28 plates)
• Charles Green (10 lithographs)

Related Material

• Abel Magwitch: A Chronology of the Step-father Figure in Dickens's Great Expectations
• Front page of All the Year Round, Vol. IV, No. 84
• Fifteen Images of Magwitch
• A Comparison of Fraser's Illustrations in the original 1876 Household Edition plates and those in the Collier New York edition of 1900
• Great Expectations in Film and Television, 1917 to 2000
• Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations
• Bibliography of works relevant to illustrations of Great Expectations

Bibliography

Allingham, Philip V. "The Illustrations for Great Expectations in Harper's Weekly (1860-61) and in the Illustrated Library Edition (1862) — 'Reading by the Light of Illustration'." Dickens Studies Annual, Vol. 40 (2009): 113-169.

Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. Illustrated by John McLenan. [The First American Edition]. Harper's Weekly: A Journal of Civilization, Vols. IV: 740 through V: 495 (24 November 1860-3 August 1861).

______. Great Expectations. All the Year Round. Vols. IV and V. 1 December 1860 through 3 August 1861.

______. ("Boz."). Great Expectations. With thirty-four illustrations from original designs by John McLenan. Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson (by agreement with Harper & Bros., New York), 1861.

Created 28 November 2006

Last updated 3 December 2021