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 fourteen engravings from the first two volumes are reproduced here; the fifteen engravings from the third and fourth volumes appear in Pamela in Her Exalted Condition. The seven engravings from the first volume face pages 4, 123, 151, 214, 290, 358, and 373 in the octavo text (these are located in the Cambridge Edition at 10, 73, 88, 121, 161, 197, 207). Gravelot engraved all of them and designed the illustration facing p. 373;Hayman designed the other six. The seven engravings from the second volume face pages 32, 89, 175, 249, 267, 305, and 404 in the octavo text (in the Cambridge Edition: 241, 272, 318, 357, 366, 386, 439). Hayman designed the illustration facing p. 267; Gravelot designed the other six and engraved all seven.