Hugh Thomson

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Rosalind and Celia . Illustration for As You Like It (1909)
Title page to Scenes of Clerical Life (1906)
Book title for Pride and Prejudice (1894)

Hugh Thomson (born June 1, 1860 in Coleraine , † May 7, 1920 in Wandsworth , London ) was an Irish draftsman and book illustrator .

Life

Hugh Thomson grew up in Coleraine, started working in the local linen industry at fourteen and moved to Belfast at the age of sixteen , where he worked for a book publisher and where his talent for painting was discovered. He married and moved to London in the mid-1880s, where he worked for Macmillan & Co and drew for English Illustrated Magazine . He later also worked for the Spectator newspaper and received orders to furnish books, including for his friend Henry Austin Dobson . He was best known for illustrations for book editions by Charles Dickens and in particular for the new editions of the novels Pride and Prejudice , Emma , Mind and Feeling , Mansfield Park , The Abbey of Northanger and Persuasion of Jane Austen at Macmillan, as well as for the short story book Scenes of Clerical Life by George Eliot . Thomson also provided the landscape views and sketches for Stephen Gwynn's (1864–1950) books on Ireland.

The Ulster Museum in Belfast owns some watercolors and drawings by Thomson, and his hometown Coleraine acquired a larger collection of his paintings and books in 2009. His drawing style was revived in the late twentieth century when advertising Quality Street branded confectionery , borrowing from his illustrations for JM Barrie's play of the same name.

literature

  • Jean K. Bowden: Hugh Thomson's illustrations of Jane Austen's Price and Prejudice . Chawton: Jane Austen Memorial Trust, 1999
  • MH Spielmann; Walter Jerrold: Hugh Thomson, his art, his letters, his humor and his charm . London, A. & C. Black, 1931

Web links

Commons : Hugh Thomson  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Hugh Thomson ( Memento of the original from December 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at Culture Northern Ireland  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.culturenorthernireland.org
  2. ↑ a b c d Hugh Thomson, illustrator (1860 - 1920) ( Memento of the original from September 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at Ulster History  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ulsterhistory.co.uk
  3. ↑ Jane Austen: Sense and sensibility , with illustrations by Thomson, edited by Project Gutenberg
  4. ↑ Hugh Thomson, Jane Austen Illustrator , at Jane Austen's World (blog)
personal data
SURNAME Thomson, Hugh
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish book illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Coleraine
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1920
Place of death Wandsworth , London