gresham lecture, october 2010 words and pictures: mixed encounters

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 HogarthFrontispiece 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, 1855-7

Mervyn Peake, ‘The Albatross,’ from Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient

Mariner, 1943