Little Dorrit Illustrations

Illustrations by Hablot Browne

Hablot Browne (Phiz) provided all 40 illustrations for Little Dorrit published in monthly parts Dec 1855 - June 1857.

Browne continues to use the dark plate technique, as in Bleak House. He also continues to reduce the use of emblematic detail in the illustrations.

Michael Steig, in Dickens and Phiz, points out that in the illustration for the title page, where Little Dorrit is seen leaving the prison, she seems bathed in light coming from within the prison, giving the sense that Amy goes into a world much darker than the prison. (Steig, 1978, p. 159)

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Frontispiece	Title Page
The birds in the cage	Under the microscope
Mr Flintwinch mediates as a friend of the family	The room with the portrait
Little mother	Making off
Mr F's Aunt is conducted into retirement	Little Dorrit's party
Mr & Mrs Flintwinch	The ferry
The brothers	Miss Dorrit and Little Dorrit
Visitors at the works	The story of the princess
Five-and-twenty	Floating away
Mr Flintwinch has a mild attack of irritability	The pensioner entertainment
Society expresses its views on a question of marriage	The Marshalsea becomes an orphan
The travellers	The family dignity is affronted
Instinct stronger than training	Mr Sparkler under a reverse of circumstances
Rigour of Mr F's Aunt	Mr Flintwinch receives the embrace of friendship
The patriotic conference	Mr Baptist is supposed to have seen something
Missing and dreaming	Reception of an old friend
An unexpected after-dinner speech	The night
Flora's tour of inspection	Mr Merdle a borrower
At Mr John Chivery's tea-table	In the old room
Damocles	The third volume of the registers