Solomon Eytinge

1833-1905

American (Bayonne, New Jersey)

Solomon Eytinge Jr. was an American illustrator of newspapers, journals and books. By the age of twenty three he was an established staff artist at Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, and shortly afterwards, he worked for the New York Illustrated News, Every Saturday and Harper's Weekly.

He worked as a successful illustrator on the books of authors like Alcott, Browning, Tennyson, Harte, Holmes, Lowell, and Whittier, and he is best-remembered as the illustrator who first used the motif of Tiny Tim perched on Bob Cratchit’s shoulders for an 1867 edition of Dickens A Christmas Carol. In addition to illustrating other Dickens’ works including Bleak House, Dombey and Son, and A Tale of Two Cities, Eytinge also painted an oil portrait of the author during his second American tour from 1867-1868.