Theatrical Crusoe: Cruikshank, Grandville, and others, 1831-1840.(continued)
The same technique was used for the illustrations created by Grandville (i.e., Jean-Ignace-Isidore Gérard, 1803-1847) and his assistants, such as Mathew Sears, for editions published in Paris and London in 1840, and frequently reprinted throughout the century. The signature design of the Grandville edition is the frontispiece, in which Crusoe appears as a heroic monument to power and authority, seated atop a plinth that features Friday's face and several rams' heads, and around which an adoring crowd of parents and children is gathered. In the text, full-page designs of Crusoe in resplendent landscapes are mixed with half-page vignettes of him expressing astonishment or fear, emotions not found in Stothard's drawings.
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