"Paul also asked him, as a practical man, what he thought about King Alfred's idea of measuring time by burning candles . . ." — Fred Barnard's fifteenth illustration for "Dombey and Son" (1877) (original) (raw)

Paul also asked him, as a practical man, what he thought about King Alfred's idea of measuring time by burning candles . . .

Fred Barnard

1877

17.7 cm high x 13.1 cm wide, full-page, framed.

composite wood-block engraving

Dombey and Son, facing p. 100

Illustration for Chapter 14, "Paul grows more and more old-fashioned, and goes Home for the Holidays," Dickens's Dombey and Son, in the fifteenth volume of the Household Edition.

Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham

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