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Like Hunt, Brown
made only a small number of book illustrations, of which 'The Prisoner
of Chillon' is probably the most memorable. He spent no less than
twenty-eight hours in a mortuary, studying the gradual process of
the decomposition of a corpse, before translating his observations
into this chilling design. In his diary he recorded that the Dalziels
paid him £8 for the drawing - a small proportion of the £1,000
they received from the publisher, Routledge, for producing the illustrations
for the book.
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