Appendix III - Illustrations From Octavo Edition (1742)

Summary

The octavo edition featured twenty-nine engravings, depicting scenes from the novel, by Hubert Franc¸ois Gravelot (1699–1773; also known as Henri Gravelot) and Francis Hayman (1708–76), with seven appearing in each of the first three volumes and eight in the fourth. Because no correspondence or other papers have survived, we do not know the terms of Richardson's dealings with Gravelot and Hayman, or the extent to which the author prescribed or did not prescribe the choice of scenes to be represented or the mode of their representation. The critical consensus is that Richardson indeed played a major role in the illustrations of his novel. The fifteen engravings from the third and fourth volumes are reproduced here; the fourteen engravings from the first and second volumes appear in Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded. The seven engravings from the third volume face pp. 11, 94, 161, 228, 361, 377, and 451 (these are located in the Cambridge Edition at 10, 56, 92, 129, 202, 212, 255). Hayman designed the illustrations facing pp. 11, 94, 161, 228, and 377; Gravelot designed the illustrations facing pp. 361 and 451, and engraved all seven. The eight engravings from the fourth volume face pp. 29, 108, 145, 178, 210, 277, 372, and 475 (marked ‘Vol. IV p. 474–475’, with scene depicted in illustration described on pp. 474–5). (In the Cambridge Edition: 319, 367, 389, 411, 431, 472, 529, 590–1.) Gravelot designed and engraved all eight.