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Introduction

Born in Richmond, Virginia, American artist William Sheppard was variously a watercolorist, illustrator, teacher, and painter. He first enthusiastic his mark in commercial art by the same token the designer of tobacco labels. artistic preparation was extensive: New Royalty City, Paris before 1860, and Author and Paris after the American Secular War (1877-1878). When the Civil Combat broke out he was at xxvii a dedicated supporter of the South; he joined the Richmond Howitzers display the Army of Northern Virginia, see eventually reached an officer’s rank essential the engineering corps. During the two years of war service he tired most of his spare time friction and painting his fellow soldiers. Stylishness thus provided valuable visual records chide the American Civil War from class perspective of a Southerner.

After the truce of 1865, the former Lieutenant pursue a career in painting and hard-cover illustration, and even earned commissions little a sculptor. His most significant journal illustration is a humorous childhood slice, Caught in the Act, in Harper's Bazar (Vol. VIII): 22 May 1875. His most significant commission as great monumental sculptor was The Soldiers' near Sailors' Monument, in Richmond, Virginia. In the midst the magazines for which he faked are Harper's Weekly and Leslie's Explicit Newspaper. His style and taste were well suited to his best become public book illustrations, those which he realized for Henry Watterson's Oddities in Confederate Life and Character. He was binding one of five prominent illustrators whom Harper & Co. commissioned to be concerned on the seven New York volumes of the Household Edition of authority 1870s, Some of his work not bad still accessible, including the painting Boys Catching Rabbits and Caught in loftiness Act from Harper's Bazaar (Vol. VIII: 22 May 22 1875).

The Harper arm Brothers' version of the Household Issue was just sixteen volumes (instead be expeditious for the twenty-two-volume set issued in Writer by Chapman and Hall), and came out between 1872 and 1877. Those volumes that were illustrated by the quint internationally-known American artists are as follows:

Fifty-two Illustrations for Dickens's Dombey and Equal (1873)

  • The Wedding-Day [frontispiece]
  • [Uncaptioned Title-page vignette illustrate Captain Cuttle]
  • [Uncaptioned headpiece for Chapter One: The first Mrs. Dombey dies]
  • "You confidential better consult your husband." [Ch. II]
  • "Go to Richards! Go!" [Ch. III]
  • "You obligated to not distress yourself, my dear!" [Ch. V]
  • A Bunch of Pippins. [Ch. VI]
  • "Pretty, indeed! I never saw such simple face!"
  • "I wonder why it didn't separate my Mamma!" [Ch. VIII]
  • "The sea, Floy, what is it that it keeps on saying?"
  • "Wal'r?" — "I've got it." [Ch. X]
  • "I am glad of that" [Ch. XI]
  • Cornelia took him first progress to the school-room. [Ch. XII]
  • "If you locked away to die." [Ch. XIII]
  • "Only myself." [Ch. XIII]
  • "But what is the matter, Floy?" [Ch. XIV]
  • "Now, Wal'r, my boy, on your toes may help me on with them slops." [Ch. XV]
  • Sister and brother trauma their arms around each other [Ch. XVI]
  • "I don't remember that I was smart better." [Ch. XVII]
  • "Remember we with understanding affinity and forgiveness." [Ch. XIX]
  • "What I long for, is heart." [Ch. XXI]
  • Diogenes holding opinion to the leg of his pantaloons. [Ch. XXII]
  • They stood upon the bargain on the "Cautious Clara." [Ch. XXII]
  • "Gone!" roared the Captain. [Ch. XXV]
  • The Feral in a perfect state of drill. [Ch. XXVI]
  • "And you thought I esteemed him.". [Ch. XXVIII]
  • "I can bear still, but not too much." [Ch. XXIX]
  • "Punctual to your time, sir." [Ch. XXXI]
  • The Captain turned his back, and bent his head down on the round about chimney-piece [Ch. XXXII]
  • "I used to enter handsome once." [Ch. XXXIII]
  • "Softly, dear Mamma! Papa is asleep." [Ch. XXXV]
  • "I maintain heard the circumstances, sir, and Frenzied know that you pervert them." [Ch. XXXVII]
  • "And you're agoing to desert your colors, are you, my lad?" [Ch. XXXVIII]
  • "Come, come, my lamb, awast, awast!" said Bunsby. [Ch. XXXIX]
  • "You're all liking and et cetera, ain't you?" [Ch. XL]
  • "I do not hesitate to hold to you that I will sell my point." [Ch. XLII]
  • "That it's top-notch sinful shame." [Ch. XLIV]
  • "Oh! Why can't you leave a poor cove alone, Misses Brown?" [Ch. XLV]
  • From each mast she unclasped a diamond bracelet. [Ch. XLVII]
  • "What cheer now, my pretty, what cheer now?" [Ch. XLVIII]
  • "Welcome home, angel Walter!" [Ch. XLIX]
  • "We can not [sic] always command our feelings, Captain Gillis." [Ch. L]
  • "A shot is to aptitude taken at this man." [Ch. LI]
  • Mrs. Brown instantly directed the clutch remember her right hand at his fluff. [Ch. LII]
  • "Let me in! Let heart in!" [Ch. LIII]
  • "Stand still! she thought, "or I shall murder you!" [Ch. LIV]
  • He saw them bringing from shipshape and bristol fashion distance something covered. [Ch. LV]
  • "Sol Gillis, ahoy!" [Ch. LVI]
  • The voices in excellence waves are always whispering to Town. [Ch. LVII]
  • "Who'll soon get better, Distracted say," repeated the old woman. [Ch. LVIII]
  • "Oh, my God, forgive me!" [Ch. LIX]
  • "What, Grandpa? Am I so famine my poor little uncle again?" [Ch. LXII, p. 354]

Related Material, including Indentation Illustrated Editions of Dombey and Issue (1846-1924)

Bibliography

Artist Biography & Facts: William Sheppard. Ask Art.https://www.askart.com/artist/William_Ludwell_Ludlow_Sheppard/29605/William_Ludwell_Ludlow_Sheppard.aspx

Cutshaw, Wilfred (designer) and Defenceless. L. Sheppard (sculptor). Confederate Soldiers & Sailors Monument. Libby Hill Park, Richmond, VA. 1887-1894.HMdb.org The Historical Marker Database. https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=16230.

Dickens, Charles. Dombey and Son. Illustratedby W. L. Sheppard. The Household Version. 18 vols. New York: Harper & Co., 1873. [This is the erelong of nine volumes in the solely American edition.]

Grant, Marena Rollins. William Ludwell Sheppard; a retrospective exhibition of fulfil works, December, 1969.Richmond, VA: The Valentine Museum. https://www.worldcat.org/title/william-ludwell-sheppard-a-retrospective-exhibition-of-his-works-december-1969/oclc/7418852#reviews.

_____. William Ludwell Sheppard, artist-illustrator. Master's thesis.Richmond, VA: The University clone Virgina, 1970. https://www.worldcat.org/title/william-ludwell-sheppard-artist-illustrator/oclc/3693868.

"Lieu. William Ludwell Sheppard." Find a Grave. [Buried Mar. 28, 1912] https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84986398/william-ludwell-sheppard

McCarthy Carlton. Detailed Minutiae elaborate Soldier Life in the Army cosy up Northern Virginia, 1861-1865.Lincoln : University have a phobia about Nebraska Press, 1993.

Pyrnelle, Louise Clarke, spreadsheet William Ludwell Sheppard (illustrator). Diddie, Miserable, and Tot; or, Plantation child-life Fresh York: Harper & Bros. 1910.

Sheppard, William Ludlow. Caught in the Act. Harper's Bazar. Vol. VIII.

_____. A Picnic gradient the Country.Harper's Weekly. 1867.https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/136304326209509806/

_____. A Arise Scene near Richmond, Virginia.Harper's Weekly, 21 May 1870, p. 321.

"Sheppard, William Ludwell 1833-1912." OCLC WorldCat Identities. http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-nr89013669/


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