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Solomon “Sol” Eytinge Jr.

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Solomon “Sol” Eytinge Jr.

Birth
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
26 Mar 1905 (aged 71)
Bayonne, Hudson County, New Jersey, USA
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Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey, USA Add to Map
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Artist, ilustrator and actor, who in the 1870s and 1880s was the foremost illustrator of novels by Charles Dickens and Louisa May Alcott, Robert Browning, Alfred, Loird Tennyson, Bret Harte, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James R. Lowell, Washington Irving, Edgar Allen Poe, and John G. Whittier, and was also a regular contributor to Harper's Weekly, frequently commenting in his pictures on the ever-widening gap between America's poor and its wealthy elite. At the offices of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Paper, Eytinge worked alongside the celebrated graphic humourist Thomas Nast.

He is perhaps best remembered for having executed the first extensive program of illustration for "A Christmas Carol", namely for the 1869 Ticknor-Fields edition that contained twenty-five wood-cuts. In particular, Eytinge created the iconic image of Tiny Tim hoisted up on his father's shoulders, an image of complete sympathy between a loving father and a physically challenged child that so many cinematic adaptations have reproduced.

Married Margaret Winship Wyckoff of Bayonne, NJ, a poet and author of children's books, sometimes under the name "Madge Elliot". They were married in Brooklyn by the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher.

He was a cousin (some sources say brother, but this is incorrect) of renowned actress Rose Eytinge. Stepfather of actress Pearl Eytinge, who took his last name.
Artist, ilustrator and actor, who in the 1870s and 1880s was the foremost illustrator of novels by Charles Dickens and Louisa May Alcott, Robert Browning, Alfred, Loird Tennyson, Bret Harte, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James R. Lowell, Washington Irving, Edgar Allen Poe, and John G. Whittier, and was also a regular contributor to Harper's Weekly, frequently commenting in his pictures on the ever-widening gap between America's poor and its wealthy elite. At the offices of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Paper, Eytinge worked alongside the celebrated graphic humourist Thomas Nast.

He is perhaps best remembered for having executed the first extensive program of illustration for "A Christmas Carol", namely for the 1869 Ticknor-Fields edition that contained twenty-five wood-cuts. In particular, Eytinge created the iconic image of Tiny Tim hoisted up on his father's shoulders, an image of complete sympathy between a loving father and a physically challenged child that so many cinematic adaptations have reproduced.

Married Margaret Winship Wyckoff of Bayonne, NJ, a poet and author of children's books, sometimes under the name "Madge Elliot". They were married in Brooklyn by the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher.

He was a cousin (some sources say brother, but this is incorrect) of renowned actress Rose Eytinge. Stepfather of actress Pearl Eytinge, who took his last name.

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  • Created by: HWA
  • Added: Apr 7, 2013
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/108007766/solomon-eytinge: accessed ), memorial page for Solomon “Sol” Eytinge Jr. (23 Oct 1833–26 Mar 1905), Find a Grave Memorial ID 108007766, citing Bayview-New York Bay Cemetery, Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey, USA; Maintained by HWA (contributor 46565033).