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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On our Free Downloads page, get a free ebook of his The King of the Golden River (1850).
Bibliography
A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker (1865)
A collection of poetry. Read online at archive.org.
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.
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.
Songs of Childhood (1902)
A collection of poems intended for children. The frontispiece is by Richard Doyle. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
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.
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.
A Tale of Fairyland (The Princess Nobody) (2000)
Richard Doyle did a suite of fairy illustrations for which William Allingham wrote a poem. Several years later Andrew Lang wrote a fairy tale to go with the illustrations which is here republished by Dover with additional illustrations from the first version.
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.
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.