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Jane Austen: 1907-1908 Charles E. Brock illustrations for the other novel, and other Austen illustrations

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The illustrations below which do not have an artist's name specified are by C.E. Brock; from the signatures, these illustrations seem to have been done in 1907-1908 (much thanks to Carolyn Nelson for providing copies of the illustrations that have been scanned in as greyscale JPEGs below).


See also the 1895 C. E. Brock illustrations to Pride and Prejudice (with notes on regency clothing styles).
And other illustrations of the "extended" Regency period.
Different scans of many Brock illustrations, including some not included here, are available on Cathy Dean's C. E. Brock illustration page. [Some problems with this site?]

Selecting the thumbnail images below will bring up the full versions of the illustrations (the old greyscale JPEG scans of of C.E. Brock illustrations are each about 20-30k in filesize, while most of the other images are larger).
(Note: In some cases, particularly when using Netscape in a 256-color screen mode, greyscale JPEGs may be dithered to only six shades of grey; you may have better luck viewing such images with a separate (external) viewer program.)

Emma:

Mansfield Park:

  • A woodcut illustration by Joan Hassall:
    • Chapter 2: [Woodcut .GIF] -- She was found one morning by her cousin Edmund sitting crying on the attic stairs.
  • Chapter 7: [JPEG image] -- [Edmund and Mary:] Indulged with his favourite instrument.
  • A woodcut illustration by Joan Hassall:
    • Chapter 7: [Woodcut .GIF] -- A young woman, pretty, lively, with a harp as elegant as herself... was enough to catch any man's heart.
  • (For the passage from Mansfield Park which is illustrated by the preceding two images, along with comments and other pictures of harp-playing Regency ladies, see this file.)
  • Chapter 7: [JPEG image] -- While Fanny cut the roses.
  • An alternative illustration for Fanny cutting the roses? --
    • [Typographic `cut' .GIF image] (This is actually a typographer's "cut" or "Grasset Ornament" from ca. 1900, that has nothing whatever to do with Mansfield Park.)
  • Chapter 10: [JPEG image] -- [Mr. Rushworth:] He walked to the gate and stood there without seeming to know what to do.
  • A woodcut illustration by Joan Hassall:
    • Chapter 11: [Woodcut .GIF] -- ``It is a great while since we have had any star-gazing.'' The glee began. ``We will stay till this is finished, Fanny,'' said [Edmund], turning his back on the window.
  • Chapter 12: [JPEG image] -- [Fanny Price and Tom Bertram:] ``It would give me the greatest pleasure, but that I am this moment going to dance.''
  • Chapter 18: [JPEG image] -- [Fanny Price:] She worked very diligently under her aunt's directions.
  • Chapter 22: [JPEG image] -- Dr. Grant himself went out with an umbrella.
  • Another illustration, by Hugh Thomson:
    • Chapter 25: [.GIF Image] -- Fanny's last feeling in the visit was disappointment: for the shawl which Edmund was quietly taking from the servant to bring and put round her shoulders was seized by Mr Crawford's quicker hand, and she was obliged to be indebted to his more prominent attention.
  • A woodcut illustration by Joan Hassall:
    • Chapter 26: [Woodcut .GIF] -- She met Miss Crawford within a few yards of the Parsonage.
  • Chapter 27: [JPEG image] -- [Fanny and Edmund:] ``Oh, this is beautiful indeed!''
  • Chapter 31: [JPEG image] -- [Henry Crawford and Fanny Price:] ``No, no, no!'' she cried, hiding her face.
  • A woodcut illustration by Joan Hassall:
    • Chapter 32: [Woodcut .GIF] -- ``Why have you no fire to-day?''
  • Chapter 36: [JPEG image] -- [Fanny and Mary:] Good gentle Fanny.
  • Chapter 38: [JPEG image] -- [Fanny and William Price:] Looked at him for a moment in speechless admiration.
  • Chapter 41: [JPEG image] -- [At Portsmouth:] Fanny was obliged to introduce him.
  • Illustration by Hugh Thomson to Mansfield Park:
    • Chapter 42: [GIF Image] -- "Mrs. Price...only discomposed if she saw Rebecca pass by with a flower in her hat."
  • Chapter 48: [Greyscale JPEG] -- The joyful consent which met Edmund's application.

Northanger Abbey:

For further color scans of Brock's Northanger Abbey illustrations, see this page.

Persuasion:

  • Indeterminate illustration to Jane Austen by Hugh Thomson (illustration of a Regency carriage departure scene):
    [GIF Image]

Sense and Sensibility:

NOTE: The illustrator chose to set his portrayals of this novel in the period of the early 1790's (when Jane Austen began working on Elinor and Marianne, the first version of Sense and Sensibility), and not in 1811, when the final revised Sense and Sensibility was published. (Also, the illustrator's conception of Col. Brandon is quite different from that of the recent movie version...)

  • Chapter 12: [Greyscale JPEG] -- [Marianne Dashwood and Willoughby:] "He cut off a long lock of her hair"
  • Chapter 26: [Greyscale JPEG] -- [Col. Brandon and Marianne:] "She immediately left the room"
  • Chapter 34: [Greyscale JPEG] -- "Mrs. Ferrars"
  • Chapter 44: [Greyscale JPEG] -- [Elinor and Willoughby:] "Miss Dashwood, I entreat you to stay"
  • Chapter 46: [Greyscale JPEG] -- "Colonel Brandon was invited to visit her"

See also the 1895 C. E. Brock illustrations to Pride and Prejudice (with notes on regency clothing styles).
And other illustrations of the "extended" Regency period.
Different scans of many Brock illustrations, including some not included here, are available on Cathy Dean's C. E. Brock illustration page. [Some problems with this site?]