Beautiful, clean scans and a nice website. Thank you Michael.<p>I love this style of illustration. As someone who dabbles in pen-and-ink illustrations, I am always so impressed to see it done well, and pleased to have a new reference to go off of in my learning.<p>Three cheers for the public domain, and those who take the time to archive it and make it accessible!
Thank you for this!<p>I know that Cruikshank was the original illustrator of many of Dickens's novels, but I prefer the artwork of James Mahoney. As a point of comparison, the same scene by both artists:<p>1. "Oliver Rather Astonishes Noah", <a href="https://imgur.com/a/DWeblXT" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://imgur.com/a/DWeblXT</a>, as illustrated by James Mahoney.<p>2. "Oliver Plucks up a Spirit", <a href="https://www.charlesdickensillustration.org/oliver-twist?pgid=lbqq0w4s-b318ea3d-f1b2-441f-80bf-4091923374d6" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.charlesdickensillustration.org/oliver-twist?pgid...</a>, as illustrated by George Cruikshank.<p>I scanned and vectorized all the artwork for "Oliver Twist" and typeset it at <a href="http://ahmadsoft.org/downloads/Oliver%20Twist,%20or,%20The%20Parish%20Boy's%20Progress.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://ahmadsoft.org/downloads/Oliver%20Twist,%20or,%20The%2...</a> (warning, it's a large PDF due to the high resolution vector imagery), but then I started a company in 2020, and haven't had time to finish "Little Dorit", which, compared to "Oliver Twist", I was able to scan at a much higher resolution and get better quality.