"PHIZ" AND MR. PICKWICK
Sir,-Even The Listener nods. On page 4 of your issue for July 2-8 is shown Mr. Pickwick "as he was originally imagined by Phiz." This is not correct. The first illustrator of Pickwick Papers was Seymour, who drew four illustrations for the first number and
three for the second and drew no more, as he then committed suicide. Phiz came in with the fourth number. The portrait you give is from Seymour’s first plate, that of Pickwick addressing twelve assembled members of the club, and of that portrait Dickens said Seymour had "made him a reality." There is thus no doubt that the traditional figure of Pickwick was originally imagined by Seymour and «not by Phiz (Halbot K.
Browne)
R. L.
ANDREW
(Kelburn).
[We invite our correspondent to study the signature, which we have enlarged and photographed and here reproduce. If it falls a little short of "‘Phiz’’ it hardly suggests "Seymour." -Ed.]
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 316, 13 July 1945, Page 23
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157"PHIZ" AND MR. PICKWICK New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 316, 13 July 1945, Page 23
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