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Richard Doyle
(1824 - 1883)
Richard “Dickie” Doyle came from a family of artists that included his father John Doyle and two brothers James and Charles. He was the uncle of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Like Andrew Wyeth, he learned to draw from his father and completed his first book illustrations at the age of twelve.
He illustrated works by Dickens and Thackeray and specialized in fairy tales, including The King of the Golden River and his masterpiece In Fairyland by William Allingham.
The illustrations were later the subject of a book by Andrew Lang entitled The Princess Nobody.
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Bibliography
The Enchanted Crow and Other Famous Fairy Tales (1871)
A collection of six fairy tales. The cover has a paste-on colored version of this illustration. This is a reprint of part of Fairy Tales from All Nations. Read online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
The Enchanted Doll (1849)
A wooden doll maker is punished for his laziness and envy of his neighbor, a silversmith. This story was written for the entertainment of Charles Dickens’ children. The image above is from a later edition. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
Author(s):
Mark Lemon
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
The Fairy Ring (1846)
Newly-translated tales from the collection of the Brothers Grimm. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
Author(s):
Brothers Grimm
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
The Fairy Ring (1847)
Newly translated tales from the collection of the Brothers Grimm. This is the expanded second edition.
Author(s):
Brothers Grimm
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
The Fairy Ring (1857)
Newly translated tales from the collection of the Brothers Grimm. This is the third edition. Read online at Google Books.
Author(s):
Brothers Grimm
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
Fairy Tales (1868)
Includes The Enchanted Doll and The Chronicles of the Three Sisters. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Mark Lemon
Illustrator(s):
Charles H. Bennett
Richard Doyle
Fairy Tales from All Nations (1849)
Author(s):
Anthony R. Montalba
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
The Feast of the Dwarfs (1871)
This is a reprint of eight tales from Fairy Tales from All Nations. The frontispiece is in color in this edition. The cover has a paste-on color version of the illustration shown above. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
The Foreign Tour of Messrs. Brown, Jones and Robinson (1854)
A comic look at three Englishmen on the continent, in pictures with gently humorous captions. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Richard Doyle
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
Fortune’s Favorite and other Famous Fairy Tales (1871)
Six fairy tales from Fairy Tales from All Nations. Read for free online at the University of Florida.
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
The Fortunes of Hector O’Halloran and His Man Mark Anthony O’Toole (1842)
A novel of the Irish revolt against the English at the turn of the nineteenth century. The first two of the thirteen monthly parts were illustrated by Dick Kitcat (Richard Doyle); the rest by John Leech. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
Author(s):
William Hamilton Maxwell
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
John Leech
Fraser’s Magazine (1842)
Richard Doyle contributed to this magazine in the years 1842 to 1844.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
Et al
God’s Englishmen (1948)
A collection of drawings of Englishmen and women going about their daily business with some humorous commentary.
Author(s):
Percival Leigh
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
Higgledy-Piggledy (1876)
Six fairy stories by a British MP. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
E. H. Knatchbull-Hugessen
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
The Illustrated Letters of Richard Doyle to His Father, 1842-1843 (2016)
As part of his education, his father required Richard Doyle to write a weekly letter about his experiences in London.
Author(s):
Richard Doyle
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
The Illustrated London Almanack, 1849 (1848)
An almanack containing celestial phenomena as well as general information and significant dates. Doyle did the headings for the months. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
The Illustrated London News (1848)
Richard Doyle contributed to this magazine in the years 1848 to 1851.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
Et al
In Fairyland (1979)
Dicky Doyle drew the pictures and William Allingham wrote a poem, A Forest in Fairyland. Then Andrew Lang wrote a tale, The Princess Nobody to go with the pictures. Read online at the University of Florida.
Author(s):
William Allingham
Andrew Lang
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
In Fairyland: Pictures from the Elf-World (1870)
Richard Doyle drew the pictures, then William Allingham wrote the poem, A Forest in Fairyland to go with them. Read online at the University of Florida.
Author(s):
William Allingham
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
Jack the Giant Killer (1888)
One of his juvenilia, drawn in 1842, this was published after the artist’s death. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
Author(s):
Richard Doyle
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle