Illustrations

Fig 0.1: Caravaggio, The Musicians     8

Fig. 3.1: Memling, Christ Blessing     77

Fig. 3.2: Millais, Christ in the House of His Parents     81

Fig. 3.3: Millais, Ophelia     81

Fig. 3.4: Millais, Mariana     82

Fig. 3.5: Millais, sketch for The Eve of the Deluge     83

Fig. 3.6: Alma-Tadema, A Reading from Homer     93

Fig. 3.7: Alma-Tadema, Sappho and Alcaeus     93

Fig. 3.8: Alma-Tadema, Unconscious Rivals     95

Fig. 3.9: Millais, Trollope illustration (Orley Farm)     98

Fig. 4.1: Quarry for Middlemarch     106

Fig. 5.1: Henry James, discarded sheet from The Sense of the Past     147

Fig. 6.1: William Morris, notes on the letter “h”     162

Fig. 6.2: Emery Walker, split-slide from lantern lecture     163

Fig. 6.3: Morris/Walker, photographic reductions of a letter design     165

Fig. 6.4: “Smokes,” reduced photograph used in font design     166

Fig. 6.5: Epical/ornamental (a page from Recuyelle of Troye)     170

Fig. 9.1: Buster Keaton’s Seven Chances, the inadvertent proposal     217

Fig. 9.2: Lilian Gish in Broken Blossoms, Buster Keaton in Go West     221

Fig. 9.3: Our Hospitality: the crushed hat and the porkpie     222–223

Fig. 9.4: Steamboat Bill Jr.: the bowler; the porkpie from a mysterious hand; horror at the porkpie     226–227

Fig. 9.5: The Boat: hoping the leak is a dream; touching the painted water     229

Fig. 9.6: Sherlock Jr: he watches for cues; the stars kiss; he kisses     234–235

Fig. 9.7: Sherlock Jr: he watches again for cues; the twins appear; he is bemused     236–237

Color Plates of Figures 0.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.6, 3.7, and 3.8 are contained in chapter six