George Eliot Illustrations Gallery

After years of collecting multiple illustrated editions of George Eliot’s works, including some rare, expensive volumes, I've finally found a good use for them. The George Eliot Archive team is scanning, cleaning, tagging, and providing metadata for this constantly expanding exhibit of illustrations and has already uploaded more than 200 images. 

These public domain illustrations of George Eliot's works have been collected for the first time to facilitate multi-disciplinary scholarship. Here, you will find illustrations of all of Eliot’s novels and short stories and several of her poems. We are publishing this gallery as CC-BY-NC-4.0 so that you may download and share them freely. We ask only that you attribute your source, the George Eliot Archive (https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org).

Our sources are books published before 1925 and now out of copyright. Scans from the illustrated George Eliot's Works published by New York's Thomas Y. Crowell in 1894 are represented, along with several other important sources, including A Souvenir of George Eliot: Scenes and Characters from the Works of George Eliot: A Series of Illustrations by Eminent Artists with Introductory Essay and Descriptive Letterpress by L. G. Seguin (1888), George Eliot Portfolio: Being a Series of Sixty Japanese Paper Proofs from Original Etchings and Photo-Etchings Illustrating George Eliot’s Works (1888), the Dana Estes edition of Complete Poems by George Eliot (1886), and many others. 

We also have collected all of Frederic Leighton's illustrations of Romola, the only novel by George Eliot that was illustrated in its first edition in 1862-63. Our illustrations were scanned from the larger two-volume gift edition published by George Smith in 1880.

In progress is a collection of images related to Eliot's homes, along with other places in England associated with her life and/or works. Many publishers have reprinted images of Eliot's homes, presumably to situate the author among the upper-middle class—a visual representation of her tremendous success. Readers have always been curious about the personal lives of the authors they admire; images of the homes of George Eliot, along with portraits of the artist (see our gallery here), catered to readers' curiosity and more generally to the cult of celebrity that made her the highest-paid female author in nineteenth-century England. 


Florence.jpg

Romola
Mill 1 Dorlcote Mill.jpg

The Mill on the Floss
Silas 1 Ravelow Village.jpg

Silas Marner
Scenes 1 Shepperton Church, as it was.jpg

Scenes of Clerical Life
Felix 1 Little Treby.jpg

Felix Holt, the Radical
Adam 1 The Hall Farm.jpg

Adam Bede
Adam 3 In the Wood.jpg

Adam Bede
Adam 7 Dinah and Adam.jpg

Adam Bede
CollegeBreakfast.jpg

A College Breakfast-Party
SM_ThatsEnded.jpg

Silas Marner
SM_EppiesPlay.jpg

Silas Marner
SM_EppieFrisking.jpg

Silas Marner
SM_ChanceMeeting.jpg

Silas Marner
SM_EppieToalhole.jpg

Silas Marner
SM_HereSatEppie.jpg

Silas Marner
SM_FavouriteBank.jpg

Silas Marner
SM_DollysKnee.jpg

Silas Marner
SM_BesetByMothers.jpg

Silas Marner
SM_GodfreysWife.jpg

Silas Marner
SM_GayProcession2.jpg

Silas Marner
SM_WheeledHerRound.jpg

Silas Marner
SM_TheCarril.jpg

Silas Marner
SM_AaronPeeping.jpg

Silas Marner
SM_LongPipes.jpg

Silas Marner
SM_Desolation.jpg

Silas Marner
SM_CovertSide.jpg

Silas Marner
SCL_SheppertonChurch.jpg

Scenes of Clerical Life
SCL_Janet.jpg

Scenes of Clerical Life
SCL_Shepperton.jpg

Scenes of Clerical Life
SM_Eppie.jpg

Silas Marner
MF_TulliverMoss.jpg

The Mill on the Floss
MF_MaggieLucy.jpg

The Mill on the Floss
MF_Muslin.jpg

The Mill on the Floss
MF_TulliverWakem.jpg

The Mill on the Floss
MF_MaggieGypsy.jpg

The Mill on the Floss
FH_EstherFelix.jpg

Felix Holt, the Radical
DD_Kalonymos.jpg

Daniel Deronda
DD_MirahMordecai.jpg

Daniel Deronda
AB_DinahMorris.jpg

Adam Bede
839.jpg

Scenes of Clerical Life

"The Sad Fortunes of the Rev. Amos Barton"

838.jpg

Scenes of Clerical Life "Janet's Repentance"
Brother Jacob Illustration 1.pdf

Brother Jacob
SG_ItIsSilva.jpg

The Spanish Gypsy
HowLisaLovedTheKing.jpg

How Lisa Loved the King
FH_GoGently.jpg

Felix Holt, the Radical
FH_LookingCalmly.jpg

Felix Holt, the Radical
MF_MyChild.jpg

The Mill on the Floss
MF_Waiting.jpg

The Mill on the Floss
SCL_LaidHerHand.jpg

Scenes of Clerical Life "Janet's Repentance"
SG_BrightFedalma.jpg

The Spanish Gypsy
SG_GreatChief.jpg

The Spanish Gypsy
R_DeathOfTito.jpg

Romola
DD_EyesMetDerondas.jpg

Daniel Deronda
FH_Village.jpg

Felix Holt, the Radical
DD_FitOfMadness.jpg

Daniel Deronda
DD_MirahMused.jpg

Daniel Deronda
DD_Liebchen.jpg

Daniel Deronda
MF_MaggiesGarret.jpg

The Mill on the Floss
MF_HistoryOfTheDevil.jpg

The Mill on the Floss
FH_VeryBeautiful.jpg

Felix Holt, the Radical
SCL_CaterinaSinging.jpg

Scenes of Clerical Life
"Mr Gilfil's Love Story"
MF_MaggieRescuesTom.jpg

The Mill on the Floss
SM_NancyGodfrey.jpg

Silas Marner
SM_TheNewGold.jpg

Silas Marner
SM_TheOldGold.jpg

Silas Marner
BrotherAndSister.jpg

Brother and Sister sonnets (also applies to The Mill on the Floss )
AB_HettySorrel.jpg

Adam Bede
AB_DinahMorris.jpg

Adam Bede
FH_EstherLyon.jpg

Felix Holt, the Radical
FH_EstherFelix.jpg

Felix Holt, the Radical
MM_Bulstrodes.jpg

Middlemarch
DD_Gwendolen1.jpg

Daniel Deronda
MF_GoingFishing.jpg

The Mill on the Floss
R2.18.jpg

Romola
R2.15.jpg

Romola
R2.14 use this scan for it.jpg

Romola
R2.12.jpg

Romola
R2.3.jpg

Romola
R1.18 use this scan for it.jpg

Romola
Lisa72.jpg

How Lisa Loved the King
SG9. The embarkment72.jpg

The Spanish Gypsy
SG7. My father comes72.jpg

The Spanish Gypsy
SG6. Fedalma dance in the street72.jpg

The Spanish Gypsy
SG5. Death of Zarca72.jpg

The Spanish Gypsy
SG4. Deep mountain gorge72.jpg

The Spanish Gypsy
SG3. Fedalma the Spanish Gypsy72.jpg

The Spanish Gypsy
SG2. The Troubador72.jpg

The Spanish Gypsy
SG1. Fedalma72.jpg

The Spanish Gypsy
DD5. Deronda and Mirah72.jpg

Daniel Deronda
DD4. Deronda and his mother72.jpg

Daniel Deronda
DD3. Gwendolen72.jpg

Daniel Deronda
MM3. Celia72.jpg

Middlemarch
MM1. Dorothea72.jpg

Middlemarch
FH4. Esther and Harold72.jpg

Felix Holt, the Radical
FH3. Felix wounded72.jpg

Felix Holt, the Radical
FH2. Felix and Job72.jpg

Felix Holt, the Radical
FH1. Esther Lyon72.jpg

Felix Holt, the Radical
DR3. Tito Melema72.jpg

Romola
DR1. Romola72.jpg

Romola
MF1. Maggie and Stephen72.jpg

The Mill on the Floss
AB6. Hall farm72.jpg

Adam Bede
AB4.Adam Bede72.jpg

Adam Bede
AB3. Hayslope church72.jpg

Adam Bede
AB2. Hetty72.jpg

Adam Bede
SCL3. Janet at the door72.jpg

Scenes of Clerical Life
SCL2. Shepperton Village72.jpg

Scenes of Clerical Life
SCL1. Shepperton Church72.jpg

Scenes of Clerical Life
R1.8.jpg

Romola 
R1.6.jpg

Romola
R1.5.jpg

Romola