"He . . . sightly cocked up his evil eye at the goldfinch. Instantly a raging thirst beset that bird; and when it appeared he still drew several unnecessary buckets of water, leaping about his perch and sharpening his bill with irrepressible satisfaction"

— Book 8, chap. v. The final (twenty-second) volume of the Household Edition of Dickens's Works: Barnard's twenty-third illustration for John Forster's "Life of Charles Dickens" (1879). (original) (raw)

He . . . slightly cocked up his evil eye

Fred Barnard

1879

Composite woodblock engraving by the Dalziels

13.9 cm high by 10.6 cm wide (5 ½ by 4 ¼ inches), 345, framed

Book 8, chap. v. Forster's Life of Charles Dickens in the Household Edition.

Scanned image and text byPhilip V. Allingham.

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