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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
Punch’s Almanack 1848 (1848)
Humorous pictures and a calendar. There is also a special hand-colored version printed on better quality paper. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
John Leech
Punch’s Almanack 1849 (1849)
Humorous pictures and a calendar. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
John Leech
Punch’s Almanack 1850 (1850)
Humorous pictures and a calendar. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
John Leech
The Queen and Mr. Punch (1897)
The reign of Queen Victoria as depicted in editorial cartoons in the pages of Punch. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
Author(s):
Toby, M.P.
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
John Leech
Linley Sambourne
John Tenniel
Et al
Rebecca and Rowena (1850)
Thackeray imagines what comes after the wedding of Ivanhoe and Rowena.
Author(s):
William Makepeace Thackeray
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
Richard Doyle (1983)
A biography of the artist, with a review of the critical reception in his own time.
Author(s):
Rodney K. Engen
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
Richard Doyle: His Life and Work (1948)
A short biography, a fairly complete bibliography and many illustrations.
Author(s):
Daria Hambourg
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
Richard Doyle’s Journal, 1840 (1980)
An illustrated journal kept by the artist when he was fifteen.
Author(s):
Richard Doyle
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
Scenes from English History (1886)
Author(s):
James E. Doyle
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
The Scouring of the White Horse (1859)
A history of the White Horse of The White Horse Vale and of the maintenance of that venerable relic. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Thomas Hughes
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker (1865)
A collection of poetry. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Frederick Locker
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
John Leighton
John Everett Millais
A Sketchbook by Richard Doyle 1824-1883 (1985)
This is a limited edition facsimile of a sketchbook held by the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Author(s):
Richard Doyle
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
Snow White and Rosy Red (1871)
Five fairy tales from Fairy Tales from All Nations. The illustration may be in color, and may be used as a paste-on on the front board. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
Songs of Childhood (1902)
A collection of poems intended for children. The frontispiece is by Richard Doyle. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
Author(s):
Walter de la Mare
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
The Story of Jack and The Giants (1851)
This is a newly illustrated version of the famous story of Jack the Giant Killer. Read for free online at HathiTrust, or at the University of Florida, or at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Richard Doyle
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
Sunday Employment, Sunday Enjoyment for the Young and Good (1859)
A work intended to make the search after holiness agreeable, rather than tedious. The title page is by Richard Doyle. Read online at Google.
Author(s):
Mrs. Upcher Cousens
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
A Tale of Fairyland (The Princess Nobody) (2000)
Author(s):
Andrew Lang
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
The Tournament, or The Days of Chivalry Revived (1840)
Disappointed in the modernized coronation ceremony for Queen Victoria, the Earl of Eglinton produced a medieval tournament on his estate in Scotland, which is here gently satirized by our artist. Read online at British Museum.
Author(s):
Richard Doyle
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
The Visiting Justices and the Troublesome Priest (1868)
A musical attack on the British treatment of Irish persons incarcerated in British jails. Read online at Google Books.
Author(s):
Unknown
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle