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    Drawing on the disputed authorship between Robert Seymour, illustrator and Charles Dickens, author over the genesis of the Pickwick Papers it is the purpose of this paper to draw out connections between the illustrated novel, the beginnings of the Illustrated Press and the work of fine artists such as Turner and Millais who at various times in the 19th century ‘illustrated’ writers work. Building on recent work on the illustrated press such as Smolderen (2011), Leighton & Surridge (2008) and Cooke (2010) with a specific focus on what constitutes a sequential narrative sequence or ‘comic’ the paper will investigate possible connections and correspondences between the various image-making processes.

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    Drawing on the disputed authorship between Robert Seymour, illustrator and Charles Dickens, author over the genesis of the Pickwick Papers it is the purpose of this paper to draw out connections between the illustrated novel, the beginnings of the Illustrated Press and the work of fine artists such as Turner and Millais who at various times in the 19th century ‘illustrated’ writers work. Building on recent work on the illustrated press such as Smolderen (2011), Leighton & Surridge (2008) and Cooke (2010) with a specific focus on what constitutes a sequential narrative sequence or ‘comic’ the paper will investigate possible connections and correspondences between the various image-making processes.

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    The Dying Clown: Robert Seymour and Dickens

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    Drawing on the disputed authorship between Robert Seymour, illustrator and Charles Dickens, author over the genesis of the Pickwick Papers it is the purpose of this paper to draw out connections between the illustrated novel, the beginnings of the Illustrated Press and the work of fine artists such as Turner and Millais who at various times in the 19th century ‘illustrated’ writers work. Building on recent work on the illustrated press such as Smolderen (2011), Leighton & Surridge (2008) and Cooke (2010) with a specific focus on what constitutes a sequential narrative sequence or ‘comic’ the paper will investigate possible connections and correspondences between the various image-making processes.

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    The Dying Clown: Robert Seymour and the strange case of the Pickwick Papers as a precursor of the Narrative

    sequential image in the Victorian Illustrated Press and beyond. Drawing on the disputed authorship between Robert Seymour, illustrator and Charles Dickens, author over the genesis of the Pickwick Papers it is the purpose of this paper to draw out connections between the illustrated novel, the beginnings of the Illustrated Press and the work of fine artists such as Turner and Millais who at various times in the 19th century illustrated writers work. Building on recent work on the illustrated press such as Smolderen (2011), Leighton & Surridge (2008) and Cooke (2010) with a specific focus on what constitutes a sequential narrative sequence or comic the paper will investigate possible connections and correspondences between the various image-making processes. It will also reflect on this development in the light of the invention of photography and the moving image. It is hoped that a visual examination of related images in diverse sources will show a use and repetition of certain tropes and themes across the different physical formats of novel, illustrated magazine and catchpenny print. This will then be tested against the contemporary usage of the term transmedia to describe contemporary digital dissemination of narratives across multiple platforms. Indeed it will suggest that the cultural explosion of printed matter in the period 1800-1860 could be described as being a Victorian Transmedial moment on different formats if viewed in this context. The paper will interrogate this apparent similitude and establish if this is verifiable or indeed just as controversial as the genesis of the original Dying Clown. Keywords: Victorian Illustrated Press, Charles Dickens, Victorian painters, transmedia, authorship, sequential narrative.

    Image:Drawn by W. Westall, A.R.A. Printed by C, Hullmandel. London, Published by Rodwell and Martin, 40 Argyll St. & 46 New Bond St. 1824.

    1904 edition with less qualms about illustrations

    Last Words. I dont invent it really do not -, but see it, and write it down Charles Dickens (Cohen 1980. p. 5) Dickens was a pure modernist.. a leader of the steam-whistle party par excellence and he had no understanding of antiquity except a sort of JACKDAW sentiment for cathedral towers John Ruskin. Letter to Charles Eliot Norton 1870. The plan of it was simply to amuse. It was to string together whimsical sketches of the pencil by entertaining sketches of the pen. John Forster. Dickenss chosen Biographer and friend. the interval has been so short between the production of each number in manuscript and its appearance in print, that the greater portion of the illustrations have been executed by the artist from the authors mere verbal description of what he intended to write. Charles Dickens: Preface to 1837 first book edition of The Pickwick Papers. Blameno one Robert Seymour in a pencilled suicide note as reported in The Times 22 April 1836, 7.

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