This morning we visited Shelley and Ron’s home bearing flowers and cards for a particular occasion. Ron was otherwise engaged, but Helen was also present. We enjoyed coffee and conversation and returned home for lunch.
Having reached page 556 of The Pickwick Papers I am ready to reproduce another batch of Charles Keeping’s illustrations to the Folio Society edition.
Close perusal of the last double page spread comparing the author’s text with the lively line drawings will display the artist’s fidelity to Charles Dickens’s writing and the skill of whoever planned the layout of the book. Should it be necessary, a click or two will enlarge the leaves.
This evening we dined on roast lamb; roast potatoes and butternut squash; crisp Yorkshire pudding; crunchy carrots; tender cabbage; and very meaty gravy, with which Jackie drank Hoegaarden and I drank Finca Carelio Tempranillo Barrica 2015.
Don’t you just love those sketches – so expressive!
What a fine table Jackie sets for you each day!!
Love these sketches 🙂 I agree with GP Cox – it’s a fine table you keep.
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Thank you very much for both these observations, GP.
Fabulous! Are you going to see the latest Nicholas Nickleby, which, I gathered from reading Geoff’s review, is ‘colour blind’?
Possibly not – Geoff rather put me off. Thanks very much, Pauline.
Those sketches capture so much! The dowager and the other ladies are quite scary. 🙂
Terrifying, I’d say, Merril. 🙂 Thank you very much.
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You make a very good point about the layout.
Thank you very much for seeing that, Susan
These Sketches fascinate me Derrick, their expressive detail is superb…
What he can do with such fluid lines – and such characterisation. I’m pleased you enjoy them. Thanks a lot.
I continue to enjoy the illustrations.
That is good, Tootlepedal. Thanks very much.
Wonderful sketches.
Thanks very much, Sue. I guess I’ll have to read all the others now 🙂
You’re hooked!
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Apologies for ignoring your posts recently. I hope you understand.
But I do so like these line drawings. Another great selection Derrick.
Of course I understand, my friend. In your condition ‘ignoring’ is not the right word. I am just pleased you are improving enough for this.
I wonder how long it took the artist to do all of those drawing…they look time consuming. Of course, I’m not an artist. I can hardly draw a stick person!
It must have taken years to do the whole set, all of which I have – except for one I lent someone who never returned it. Just reading the books in such detail would nave been a work in itself. Thanks very much, Jill.
These are wonderful. Could look at these for ages.
They are so good, Gary. I’m pleased you appreciate them. Thanks a lot.
Once again, I am thoroughly enjoying the illustrations. Thank you for sharing, Derrick.
I’m pleased, Dolly. Thank you for saying so.
It’s Mardi Gras in New Orleans tonight, and it wouldn’t surprise me one bit to find a trio like those dowagers roaming the French Quarter tomorrow at sunrise, looking equally attractive and entirely unready for Ash Wednesday services.
Goodness me!. How accurate was Mr Keeping. 🙂 Thanks very much for this, Linda.
I also continue to enjoy the illustrations, Derrick!
I’m pleased, Lavinia. Thank you for saying so.
They are such enjoyable illustrations and perfectly match the prose. Thanks for sharing them with us Derrick.
Thank you very much, Sherry. I’m pleased you like them.
It is delightful to see these illustrations – you are fortunate to own an illustrated version.
I am, Anne. I’m pleased you appreciate them. Thanks a lot.
Love the details in these illustrations…and those faces! Mr. Keeping shared such amazing character in those faces! 🙂
HUGS!!! 🙂
I’m so pleased, Carolyn. Thank you very much. X
Absolutely wonderful – incredible what Keeping can render with the tweak of the pen
He is superb, Peggy. Thank you for appreciating that.
So many times I have set out to re-read PP, but have never quite got round to it. I’ll make do now with your well-judged survey of its charms, together with the wonderful illustrations you reproduce. Thank you, Derrick.
Enjoy it, Roland. Thanks a lot.
A man who enjoys Pickwick Papers is a man of deep wisdom, and a gentleman from a bygone era, just my musings Derrick.
Cheers, Ian 🙂
Love seeing the sketches
I’m pleased Lynn. Thanks very much
Those line drawings are something else! They look as though they are ready to leap off the page.
They are indeed. So pleased you think so. Laurie.
I continue to enjoy these illustrations. I was first introduced to The Pickwick Papers (and Dickens) via Little Women when I was a young girl.
Oy, the images are too much for me, ha ha. I’m coming late and have apparently missed a series. Keeping’s skills are undeniable, and I think that’s why they have such an effect. Each character seems to hold a whole world of mischievousness inside, and some look truly ghoulish. Having this illustrated version of the book is marvelous, though. 🙂
It is so good, Crystal. Thanks very much.
The Dowager and her two ladies look quite scary!
Indeed. Imagine them bearing down on you 🙂 Thanks very much, Liz
*shudder*