Beautiful, clean scans and a nice website. Thank you Michael.
I love this style of illustration. As someone who dabbles in pen-and-ink illustrations, I am always so impressed to see it done well, and pleased to have a new reference to go off of in my learning.
Three cheers for the public domain, and those who take the time to archive it and make it accessible!
I know that Cruikshank was the original illustrator of many of Dickens's novels, but I prefer the artwork of James Mahoney. As a point of comparison, the same scene by both artists:
I scanned and vectorized all the artwork for "Oliver Twist" and typeset it at http://ahmadsoft.org/downloads/Oliver%20Twist,%20or,%20The%2... (warning, it's a large PDF due to the high resolution vector imagery), but then I started a company in 2020, and haven't had time to finish "Little Dorit", which, compared to "Oliver Twist", I was able to scan at a much higher resolution and get better quality.
I love this style of illustration. As someone who dabbles in pen-and-ink illustrations, I am always so impressed to see it done well, and pleased to have a new reference to go off of in my learning.
Three cheers for the public domain, and those who take the time to archive it and make it accessible!