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Pride and Prejudice

Original - Elizabeth Bennet reveals what she has discovered about Darcy's goodness to her father, as Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice nears its romantic conclusion.

Reason

A lovely early engraving for Pride and Prejudice, a novel that probably needs little introduction. Jane Austen is particularly poorly illustrated on Wikipedia, so I was delighted to find this.

For the record, this is one of two engravings in this edition. Collectively, they are the first illustrations of the characters of Pride and Prejudice.[1] I messed up the scan of the other one - it's teeny-tiny - so I'll have to go back to the library in a couple days.

The original scan is here.

Articles this image appears in

Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennet

Creator

William Greatbatch and George Pickering

• Support as nominator --Shoemaker's Holiday ^{Over 187 FCs served} 01:35, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
• Support per nom. Durova²⁹⁸ 01:47, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
• Support Noodle snacks (talk) 04:53, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
• Support You guys (Shoemaker, Durova, etc) are doing great work in getting these VHQ historical images/prints onto Wikipedia where they can be enjoyed by many and provide hefty EV to a variety of subjects. Staxringold _talk^contribs 14:09, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
• Support Lovely engraving, quality scan, top EV. --mikaul^talk 23:08, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

Promoted File:Pickering_-_Greatbatch_-_Jane_Austen_-_Pride_and_Prejudice_-_She_then_told_him_what_Mr._Darcy_had_voluntarily_done_for_Lydia.jpg --Ottava Rima (talk) 20:46, 17 August 2009 (UTC)