New C.E. Brock watercolor images available online
We are exceedingly pleased to announce that six seven (eight if you count the title page) watercolor illustrations of Persuasion painted by C.E. Brock are now available online–we think for the first time. Alert Janeite Cinthia of JAcastellano, the Spanish language Jane Austen mailing list, has been persistently trying to track these down for some time, and has at last succeeded. We also had assistance from Alert Janeite Marybeth, who is preparing a scholarly study of the Brock illustrations of Jane Austen’s novels. They join an existing archive of other Brock illustrations already online.
The new illustrations are:
Mr. Shepherd gives his opinion
Mary Musgrove welcomes her sister to Uppercross Cottage
A fine family-piece at Uppercross
A conversation in the Octagon Room
A list of all the scans from Persuasion is available here.
We are in the process of collecting scans of other illustrations of Jane Austen’s novels and should be presenting them soon, along with lots of other goodies; they will have a new home of their own. Stay tuned!
(And we are truly grateful to Cinthia and Marybeth for all their help in assembling these lovely illustrations from our favorite of Jane Austen’s novels.)
ETA: The missing scan.
February 1st, 2006 at 7:14 am
Oh, those illustrations are exquisite - just perfect!
February 1st, 2006 at 10:05 am
Mags, I’ve already sent the 7th one missing, which is the frontispiece of the edition. So there, you have it, the complete set.
February 1st, 2006 at 11:28 am
Lovely illustrations. Great to see them.
February 1st, 2006 at 1:05 pm
Beautiful! A bright spot in an otherwise down day.
Thanks so much for sharing these, Mags, Cinthia, and Marybeth.
February 1st, 2006 at 4:53 pm
I absolutely adore Brock’s illustrations! Brock just captures the elegance and comedy of Jane’s works and he seems to put the characters just the way I see them in my mind! Thanks so much for telling us about these, Mags and for scouting them out, Cinthia, and Marybeth!
February 1st, 2006 at 8:00 pm
Beautiful!
February 9th, 2006 at 10:58 am
They really are just lovely! Thank you for putting all the work into making them available!