FRONTISPIECE: Mary Ellen at thirty-seven, drawing by Henry Wallis. Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, UK/Bridgeman Images
1 Thomas Love Peacock as a boy; Sarah Peacock; Thomas Love Peacock at thirty-one. National Portrait Gallery, London
2 Peacock at seventy-three, painting by Henry Wallis. National Portrait Gallery, London
3 A previously unknown photograph of Peacock. Wallis Estate
4 “Fighting Nicolls,” General Sir Edward Nicolls, K.C.B. Royal Marines Historical Photo Library
5 The beautiful three-year-old George Meredith. Charles Scribner’s Sons
6 Peacock’s house along the Thames, where Mary Ellen grew up and Peacock lived till his death. Mr. and Mrs. Roberts
Vine Cottage, where George Meredith and Mary Ellen lived after moving out of Peacock’s. Peter Hawkins
7 Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s portrait of Arthur Meredith. Charles Scribner’s Sons
8 George Meredith with his son Arthur. Charles Scribner’s Sons
9 Wallis’s original sketch of a portrait of Ant. Leisman (with handwritten notes by Wallis). It was said by Peacock to be a remarkable likeness of Shelley, superior to any portrait of Shelley himself. Wallis Estate
10 Mary Shelley in 1841, painting by Richard Rothwell. National Portrait Gallery, London
11 Henry Wallis in later years. John Freeman
Photograph of Felix at age four or five. Wallis Estate
12 Henry Wallis’s The Death of Chatterton, for which George Meredith was the model. Tate Gallery
13 George Meredith by George Frederic Watts. National Portrait Gallery, London
14 Photograph of George Meredith, again in profile, when he is old and eminent, by J. Thomson. Lebrecht Authors/Bridgeman Images
15 Drawing by Henry Wallis. Birmingham Museum
Henry Wallis’s famous painting The Dead Stonebreaker. Birmingham Museum