John Jellicoe (illustrator) explained

John Timothy Jellicoe
Birth Date:	5 January 1842
Birth Place:	London, England
Death Place:	Willesden, London, England
Nationality:	English
Occupation:	Illustrator
Years Active:	1869–1912
Known For:	Illustrating sporting and dramatic events
Notable Works:	The Record of the Ripon Millenary

John Timothy Jellicoe (5 January 1842buried 13 June 1914) was a British illustrator who produced large number of illustrations for newspapers and magazines as well as illustrating books and stories by a wide range of authors.

Early life

Jellicoe was born in London on 5 January 1842 to George Daniel Jellicoe (31 May 17998 December 1877), a solicitor's clerk and Ann Thomas (c. 1810October 1875).^[1] The census returns show Jellicoe as the second child of his parents. Ann Thomas was his father's second wife, and Jellicoe had a half-sister Harriet Sophia Jellicoe (1828aft. March 1911)^[2] and three half-brothers alive when he was born.^[3] Jellicoe was baptised on 20 February 1842 in St Mary, Islington, London.

Marriages and family

Jellicoe married Georgina Annie Wiltshire (12 December 184118 October 1872), at Millbrook, Hampshire on 23 May 1868.^{[4] [5]} The couple had one son, George Edward Jellicoe (c. 1872aft. 1924) who became a publisher.^{[6] [7]}

At the time of the 1871 Census, Jellicoe was living at 1 Brook Road, Stoke Newington, London, where his son, George Edward, was born. Georgina died on 18 October 1872.^[8] Jellicoe remarried three years later to Charlotte Anne Holland (1845October–November 1913). They had two children Mabel (1877–1945) and Gordon (1885–1941).

The 1881 census found Jellicoe living at 2 Grosvenor Park Villas with his wife and two children. His occupation had changed from artist in wood to artist (figures). By 1891 Jellicoe was living at 74 Parkhill Road, Hampstead, where he would remain until 1907 at least. By the 1911 census he was staying at Gondar House, Gondar Gardens in Hampstead. By 1913 he was living at 5 Park Avenue, north of Hampstead.

Works

John studied art in London and began exhibiting in 1865. He exhibited pen and ink drawings, paintings, and watercolours at the Society of British Artists and the Royal Academy.^{[9] [10]} Jellicoe was regarded as an exceptionally fine figure artist and often collaborated with other illustrators by drawing figures into their illustrations of buildings and places.^[11]

Periodical Illustrations

Jellicoe was an illustrator for the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News as well as illustrating for other periodicals including the Illustrated London News, St. Paul's Magazine,^{[12] [13]} The Windsor Magazine,^[14] and the boys' papers Union Jack and The Boy's Own Paper.^[15]

Illustrations of the Ripon Millenary Festival

Jellicoe attended the Ripon Millenary Festival, held in Ripon, North Yorkshire, in 1886. This was one of the pageants of the late Victorian vogue for Merrie England.^[16]

Book illustrations

Jellicoe illustrated books and stories by the following authors (source of the attribution is cited for each author):

• Rev. Alfred Allen Brockington (1872–1938), a schoolmaster, Anglican cleric, poet, and writer on religious topics, mysticism, and school stories.^{[17] [18] [19]}
• Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855), a poet and novelist and the eldest of the three Brontë Sisters.^[20]
• Robert Browning (1812–1899), the poet and playwright.^[21]
• William Boyd Carpenter (1841–1918), Bishop of Ripon at the time of the Millenary Festival.
• Alfred John Church (1829–1912), a classical scholar who wrote books on the Romans and Greeks, as well as other historical topics.^[22]
• Mrs. Henry Clarke (1853–1908), who wrote historical fiction and children's books.
• Harry Collingwood (1843–1922), a writer of boys' adventure fiction, usually in a nautical setting.^[23] who wrote boys' adventure fiction, usually in a nautical setting.
• Charles Dickens (1812–1870), for whom Jellicoe illustrated posthumous reissues.^[24]
• John Finnemore (1863–1915), who wrote books and stories for younger readers, as well as school textbooks.
• Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774), the Irish poet and playwright.
• M. Y. Halidom (1838–1914), a pseudonym of Alexander Huth, a writer of supernatural stories who also wrote under the pseudonym Dryasdust.^[25]
• W. Harrison (1847c. 1895), the printer in Ripon responsible for collating the Record of the Ripon Millenary Festival.
• Bernard Heldmann (1857–1915), a prolific author who published 76 novels and hundreds of short stories.^{[26] [27]}
• Mrs. R. E. Henry, primarily a playwright, but also wrote Fairy tales.
• G. A. Henty (1832–1902), a prolific writer of boy's adventure fiction, often set in a historical context, who had himself served in the military and been a war correspondent.
• Dr. Johnson (1709–1784), the famous diarist.
• Andrew Lang (1844–1912), the prolific Scottish author interested in folk and fairy tales.
• Mary Cornwall Legh (1857–1941), a British Anglican missionary.
• Emma Leslie (1838–1909), Emma Boultwood, wrote more than 100 books, mostly juvenile and historical titles with a Christian message.^[28]
• Winifred Mary Letts (1882–1972), an English-born writer who spent most of her life in Ireland, writing plays, novels, and children's fiction.
• John Leyland (c. 18581924), who wrote guidebooks and books on nautical themes.
• Charles Rathbone Low (1837–1918), an Irishman who served in the Royal Indian Navy and wrote historical works and adventure fiction.^{[29] [30]}
• Anne Manning (1807–1879), who wrote both fiction and non-fiction.
• Bessie Marchant (1862–1941), who wrote adventure fiction featuring young female heroines.
• H. R. McEniry, who wrote Twelve Parables of Our Lord, Illustrated and Illuminated.
• A. F. Mockler-Ferryman (1856–1930), a British Army officer who wrote about geography, history, and the military.^[31]
• Frank Frankfort Moore (1855–1931), an Irish journalist, playwright, novelist, poet, and biographer.
• James Macdonald Oxley (1855–1907), a Canadian writer of juvenile fiction.^[32]
• Charles Eyre Pascoe (1842–1912), who wrote on the stage, travelogues, guides to schools, souvenirs and other works.^[33]
• Eliza Caroline Phillips (1847–1923), who wrote illustrated books for small children.^[34]
• Charles Pond (1856–1931), comedian who wrote the sketch The Fully Licensed Man, which was recited over 11,000 times.^[35]
• Robert Richardson (1850–1901), an Australian poet, writer, and journalist who wrote novels for children, stories for boy's papers, and books about travel.
• Charles Napier Robinson (1849–1938), a Royal Naval officer who on retirement, became a journalist on naval matters and published the journal The Navy and Army Illustrated : a magazine descriptive and illustrative of everyday life in the defensive service of the British Empire..
• Thomas Roscoe (1791–1871), and English author and translator.
• Richmond Seeley (1833–1913), a London publisher who worked with his cousin Alfred John Church to produce illustrated versions of stories from the classics.^[36]
• John Walter Sherer (1823–1911), a novelist and a member of the Bengal Civil Service at the time of the Indian Mutiny.^{[37] [38]}
• Grace Stebbing (1840–1936), a prolific author of moral tales for boys and girls as well as historical romances and biographies. She wrote her first book aged 7 and her last one at 91, with 89 books in total as well as numerous short stories.^{[39] [40] [41]}
• Clement Strong, who wrote stories for boys papers.^[42]
• Robert Smith Surtees (1805–1864), an editor, novelist and sporting writer.
• Lord Tennyson (1809–1892), the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during much of Queen Victoria's reign.
• Lily Watson (1849–1932), an English Baptist who wrote novels and instructional works.^[43]
• Mrs. Henry Wood (1814–1887), an English novelist who turned to writing to support her family when her husband's business failed, and whose work was widely read in the United States and Australia.

Example of book illustration

While most of Jellicoe's illustrations were line drawings, he did a number of illustrations in colour. The Story of Joan of Arc (1906) was a children's book written by Andrew Lang (31 March 184420 July 1912). The book was published in by T. C. and E. C. Jack in London and Edinburgh. Jellicoe produced eight colour illustrations for the book, one of which (the wounding in battle) was used as a book cover.

Death

Charlotte died in Willesden in October or November 1913,^[44] and Jellicoe followed in June 1914.^[45] He was buried on 13 June 1914^[46] in the same plot in Hampstead Cemetery where Charlotte had been buried on 4 November.^[47]

External links

Note that some links will include works by Admiral John Rushwood Jellicoe, and not just by John Jellicoe.

• • books by John Jellicoe at the British Library
• Books by John Jellicoe at Library Hub Discover (included works by and about Admiral John Jellicoe also).
• Books by John Jellicoe at the Internet Archive (includes works by Admiral John Jellicoe also).
• Digital editions of books illustrated by John Jellicoe in the Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books at the Toronto Public Library.

Notes and References

1. Book: Ancestry.com . London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1917 . London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; Reference Number: p83/mry1/1177 . 2010 . Ancestry.com . Provo, Utah .
2. His half-sister Jellicoe was living with him in 1911, and was described as half-witted on the census form. She was 82 at the time.
3. another two half-brothers had dies in infancy.
4. Web site: Index entry. 23 March 2020. FreeBMD. ONS.
5. Marriages . Berkshire Chronicle . Saturday 30 May 1868 . 8 . 1868-05-30 .
6. [Sir Geoffrey Allan Jellicoe]
7. Moggridge . Hal . Jellicoe, Sir Geoffrey Alan . 2005-05-26 . 10.1093/ref:odnb/40519 . 2020-03-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191206205130/https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-40519 . 2019-12-06 . live .
8. Web site: Index entry. 26 March 2020. FreeBMD. ONS.
9. It is not clear if the Royal Academy, which had originally refused to exhibit Watercolours had changed its policy by this time.
10. Web site: Beatrice . The History of Watercolours . Mall Galleries . 2018 . 2020-03-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200325185457/https://www.mallgalleries.org.uk/about-us/blog/history-watercolours . 2020-03-25 . live .
11. MacAlister . J. Y. W. . English Book Illustration of To-Day: By R. E. D. Sketchley . The Library: A Quarterly Review of Bibliography and Library Lore . New Series . 3 . 192 . 1902 . Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner And Co., Ltd. . London . 2020-03-25 .
12. The publisher James Virtue set up St Paul's Magazine to rival Cornhill and copied the format, frequency and price. Virtue originally hope the call it Anthony Trollope's Magazine.
13. Book: Sutherland, John . John Sutherland (author) . The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction . St Paul's Magazine . 550 . 1989 . Stanford University Press . Stanford, California .
14. Web site: Sketches at Boscombe, Bournemouth . Art of the Print . 2020-03-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20051230185908/http://www.artoftheprint.com/artistpages/jellicoe_john_sketchesatbascombe.htm . 2005-12-30 . live .
15. Web site: Holland . Steve . Artists: Jellicoe, John . British Juvenile Story Papers and Pocket Libraries Index . 2020-03-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200206020900/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/BJSP/c27.htm#A798 . 2020-02-06 . live .
16. Book: Marios Costambeys. Andrew J. Hamer. Martin Heale. The Making of the Middle Ages: Liverpool Essays. 2007. Liverpool University Press. 978-1-84631-068-3. 5–.
17. Book: A. & C. Black Ltd. . Who Was Who: Volume III 1929-1940: A Companion to Who's Who Containing the Biographies of Those Who Died Diring the Period 1929-1940 . 4th . Brockington, Rev. Alfred Allen . III . 165 . 1967 . Adam and Charles Black . London . https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.136503/page/n180/mode/1up . 2020-05-04 .
18. Book: Francesca Bugliani Knox. John Took. Poetry and Prayer: The Power of the Word II. 25 March 2020. 3 March 2016. Taylor & Francis. 978-1-317-07938-5. 17–18.
19. Web site: Search . Library Hub Discover . 2020-03-24.
20. Web site: Search . Internet Archive . 2020-03-24.
21. Web site: Search . AbeBooks.co.uk . 2020-03-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200325143322/https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/SearchResults%3Fan%3D%2522John%2520Jellicoe%2522%26bi%3D0%26bx%3Doff%26cm_sp%3DSearchF-_-Advtab1-_-Results%26ds%3D20%26recentlyadded%3Dall%26sortby%3D17%26sts%3Dt . 2020-03-25 . live .
22. Web site: Books by Jellicoe, John . Project Gutenberg . 2020-03-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200325144826/https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/8935 . 2020-03-25 . live .
23. Advertisement for Old England's Flag, the Christmas Number of The Union Jack . Fishing Gazette . Saturday 04 November 1882 . 15 . 1882-11-04 .
24. Web site: Main Catalogue . Explore the British Library . 1882-11-04 .
25. Web site: Clute . John . Halidom, M Y . The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . 2018-08-31 . 2020-05-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190420204800/http://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/halidom_m_y . 2019-04-20 . live .
26. Vuohelainen . Minna . Bernard Heldmann and the Union Jack, 1880-83: The making of a professional author . Victorian Periodicals Review . 47 . 1 . 106 . 2020-03-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200326184633/https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/15199/7/47.1.vuohelainen.pdf . 2020-03-26 . live .
27. Web site: Holland . Steve . Contents Lists . British Juvenile Story Papers and Pocket Libraries Index . 2020-03-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200206020840/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/BJSP/t476.htm#A16768 . 2020-02-06 . live .
28. Web site: Author: Emma Leslie (1838–1909) (real name Emma Boultwood) . At the Circulating Library: A database of Victorian Fiction 1837-1901 . 2019-12-31 . 2020-05-05 .
29. Book: Kirk, John Foster . John Foster Kirk . A Supplement To Allibone S Critical Dictionary Of English Literature British And American Authors . Low, Charles Rathbone . II . 1020–1021 . 1908 . J. B. Lippincott Company . Philadelphia .
30. Web site: Holland . Steve . Contents Lists . British Juvenile Story Papers and Pocket Libraries Index . 2020-03-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200206020839/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/BJSP/t478.htm#A16824 . 2020-02-06 . live .
31. Death of Noted Old Cheltonian: Col. Mockler-Ferryman, Regimental Historian . Cheltenham Chronicle . Saturday 31 May 1930 . 3 . 1930-05-31 .
32. Web site: Holland . Steve . Contents Lists . British Juvenile Story Papers and Pocket Libraries Index . 2020-03-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160317222626/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/bjsp/t91.htm#A3038 . 2016-03-17 . live .
33. Death of Mr. Charles Eyre Pascoe . Westminster Gazette . Tuesday 12 November 1912 . 14 . 1912-11-12 .
34. Death of a Children's Authoress . Gloucester Citizen . Saturday 17 November 1923 . 6 . 1923-11-17 .
35. Chas. Pond's Highly Romantic Life Ended: London: Oct 17 . Variety . Tuesday November 3, 1931 . 63 . 1931-11-03 . 2020-03-25 .
36. Death of Mr. R. Seeley . West Surrey Times . Friday 17 January 1913 . 7 . 1913-01-17 .
37. Book: A. & C. Black Ltd. . Who Was Who: Volume I: 1897-1915: A Companion to Who's Who Containing the Biographies of Those Who Died During the Period 1897-1915 . Sherer, John Walter . 645 . 1967 . Adam and Charles Black . London . https://archive.org/details/trent_0116402055572/page/645/mode/1up . 2020-05-05 .
38. Mr. J. W. Sherer . The Times . Monday 01 January 1912 . 11 . 1912-01-01 .
39. Fashionable and Personal . Sevenoaks Chronicle and Kentish Advertiser . Friday 28 February 1936 . 10 . 1936-02-28 .
40. Wills and Estates . The Scotsman . Thursday 21 May 1936 . 13 . 1936-05-21 .
41. Web site: Holland . Steve . Contents Lists . British Juvenile Story Papers and Pocket Libraries Index . 2020-03-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200206020836/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/BJSP/t477.htm#A16781 . 2020-02-06 . live .
42. Web site: Holland . Steve . Contents Lists . British Juvenile Story Papers and Pocket Libraries Index . 2020-03-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200206020915/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/BJSP/t479.htm#A16829 . 2020-02-06 . live .
43. Web site: Author: Lily Watson (1849–1932) (pseudonym for Martha Louisa Watson nee Green) . At the Circulating Library: A database of Victorian Fiction 1837-1901 . 2019-12-31 . 2020-05-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160324020629/http://victorianresearch.org/atcl/show_author.php?aid=1689 . 2016-03-24 . live .
44. Web site: Index entry. 23 March 2020. FreeBMD. ONS.
45. Web site: Index entry. 23 March 2020. FreeBMD. ONS.
46. Web site: Burial Registry Summary: Jellicoe: John Timothy; 13 June 1914 . Deceased online . 2020-03-26 .
47. Web site: Burial Registry Summary: Jellicoe: Charlotte Anne: 04 November 1913 . Deceased online . 2020-03-26 .