"Ignorance and Want," sixth illustration for Dickens's "A Christmas Carol" (1843) (original) (raw)

Ignorance and Want

John Leech

1843

wood engraving dropped into the text

8.6 cm by 6.8 cm vignetted (3 ⅜ by 2 ⅝ inches)

In this three-quarter-page wood-engraving in Dickens's Christmas Carol, concluding Stave Three, "The Second of the Three Spirits," p. 119.

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Scanned image and text byPhilip V. Allingham.

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