Gresham Lecture, October 2010 Words and Pictures: Mixed Encounters
The Luttrell Psalter, British Library
‘ The Dreamer’ Robert White’s portrait of Bunyan, the frontispiece to The Pilgrim’s Progress, 1679
Satan rousing his legions, Paradise Lost,1688
William Blake, ‘Satan summoning his Legions’, and ‘The Temptation of Eve 1808
Blake, ‘Christian at the Wicket Gate’ and ‘Christian and Appolyon’, 1824
William Hogarth Frontispiece to The Works of Henry Fielding, 1762
Hogarth, A Harlot’s Progress, Plate 1, 1732
Hogarth, Gin Lane, 1751
John Tenniel, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass, 1865 and 1871
Tenniel’s Alice, from Lewis Carroll’s drawing
Phiz, ‘ Mr Winkle’s situation when the door “blew to”’, for Pickwick Papers, 1836
Phiz, Mr and Mrs Micawber, from David Copperfield,1850
Phiz, ‘Mr Flintwinch has a bad attack of irritability’, Little Dorrit,
Mervyn Peake, ‘The Albatross,’ from Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, 1943