Dickens's "Little Nell and Her Grandfather in the Shop" by Harold Copping (1893) (original) (raw)

Little Nell and Her Grandfather in the Shop

Harold Copping

1893

Photographic reproduction of line drawing

12.7 x 8.8 cm (5 ⅛ by 3 ⅜ inches), vignetted

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Here the illustrator of the more sentimental aspects of Dickens's child characters depicts the Victorian reading public's enduring favourite, the resourceful and resilient Little Nell from The Old Curiosity Shop, serialised in Master Humphrey's Clock (1840-41). [Commentary continued below.]

Scanned image, caption, and commentary below byPhilip V. Allingham

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