"Seth Pecksniff" by Fred Barnard — second series for "Character Sketches from Dickens" (1884) (original) (raw)

Seth Pecksniff

Fred Barnard

1884

11.1 x 9 cm framed

One of six lithographs in A Series of Character Sketches from Dickens, from the Original Drawings by Frederick Barnard. . .. Series 2: Tony and Sam Weller; Caleb Plummer and his blind daughter, Bertha; Little Nell and her grandfather, and Rogue Riderhood, Dan'l Peggotty, and Seth Pecksniff. (1884).

"Perhaps there never was a more moral man than Mr. Pecksniff especially in his conversations and correspondence . . . He was a most exemplary man; fuller of virtuous precept than a copybook. Some people likened him to a direction-post, which is always telling the way to a place, but never goes there." — Chapter II, "Wherein Certain Persons are Presented to the Reader, with Whom He May, If He Please, Become Better Acquainted." [Click on the illustration to enlarge it.]

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