"Before they had gone very far, they encountered a woman selling flowers; when the captain, stopping short, as if struck by a happy idea, made a purchase of the largest bundle in her basket" — Fred Barnard's seventeenth illustration for "Dombey and Son" (1877) (original) (raw)

Before they had gone very far, they encountered a woman selling flowers

Fred Barnard

1877

13.8 cm high x 10.7 cm wide, framed.

composite wood-block engraving

Dombey and Son, 112

Illustration for Chapter 15, "Amazing Artfulness of Captain Cuttle, and a new Pursuit for Walter Gay," Dickens's Dombey and Son, in the the Household Edition, XV.

Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham

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