How Old Is the Artful Dodger in Oliver Twist
The Aesthetic Dodger and Charley Bates
Sol Eytinge, Jr.
1867
Dickens's The Adventures of Oliver Twist, too, Pictures from Italia, and American Notes for General Circulation (Diamond Edition)
Scanned prototype and text past Philip 5. Allingham.
Passage Illustrated: The Artful and his Side-boot
One afternoon, the Dodger and Primary Bates beingness engaged out that evening, the start-named young gentleman took it into his head to evince some feet regarding the ornamentation of his person (to do him justice, this was past no ways an habitual weakness with him); and, with this terminate and aim, he condescendingly commanded Oliver to aid him in his toilet, straightway.
Oliver was merely as well glad to make himself useful; too happy to accept some faces, however bad, to look upon; as well desirous to conciliate those well-nigh him when he could honestly do so; to throw whatsoever objection in the fashion of this proposal. So he at once expressed his readiness; and, kneeling on the floor, while the Dodger sat upon the table so that he could take his foot in his laps, he applied himself to a process which Mr. Dawkins designated as "japanning his trotter-cases." The phrase, rendered into apparently English, signifieth, cleaning his boots. [Affiliate xviii, "How Oliver passed his time in the improving guild of his reputable friends," p. 79]
Commentary: The Inimitable "Artful Dodger" (Jack Dawkins)
Other illustrators have depicted Oliver's dubious companions in Fagin's crib with greater effectiveness, and ordinarily in the act of committing trivial thefts, as in George Cruikshank's original 1837 series plate, Oliver amazed at the Dodger's mode of going to piece of work. Eytinge, yet, employs contrast to distinguish their characters.
Fagin directs a string of street gypsies, but the merely two who stand out are the quick-witted pickpocket Jack Dawkins (otherwise, "The Aesthetic Dodger," a sobriquet doubtless conferred by Fagin himself) and Charley Bates, far more benign and facetious figures than Fagin's primary criminal associate, the burglar Neb Sikes. For all his wit and "artfulness," Dawking is sentenced to transportation for life to New Due south Wales, United kingdom's Australian penal colony. Even so, Dickens fashions a very different fate for Charley, whose explication of a professional technicality betrays his fear of hanging for his many fiddling thefts: at the shut of the story, Charley reforms, returns to his rural roots every bit a grazier, becoming a prosperous burgess over time in his native Northamptonshire.
Dressed on cast-off adult clothing, Charley and the Dodger expect a bit like the anonymous street waif depicted in John Leech's 1843 political cartoon Substance and Shadow (left, inspecting a painting) from Punch Magazine. However, the Eytinge rogues are better dressed and less ill-kempt, although the American illustrator captures their grittier natures as he depicts them as street toughs in miniature, smoking, drinking (note the pot of porter on the tabular array, left), and posturing. Purely to distinguish one from the other, Eytinge has Charley (right) laughing, and the Dodger (left, tophat tilted rakishly askew) scowling. The decomposable plaster in the groundwork suggests that the boys are in Fagin's garret.
Relevant Illustrations from the serial and later on editions (1838, 1871, 1885, and 1910)
Left: George Cruikshank's Primary Bates explains a professional technicality (1838). Middle: F. W. Pailthorpe's version of Oliver's coming together the Aesthetic Dodger at Barnett:
Higher up: James Mahoney'south
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