[AUSTEN (JANE)]


THOMSON (HUGH) "Mrs Elton was first seen at church", original illustration for "Emma", original pen, ink and pencil illustration, 255 x 180mm., signed and dated "H.T., [18]96"
|A fine original illustration used, in chapter 10, for the Macmillan edition of Jane Austen's Emma, first published in 1896. Includes several details sketched in pencil which were excluded from the final printed version. "Thomson's Austen images... propelled readers and future illustrators in new directions of emphasis, promoting an Austen more widely perceptible as fashionable rather than old fashioned, comic rather than serious, social rather than intimate, and gently satirical rather than gently sensational" (Devoney Looser, The Making of Jane Austen, 2017).