"The Bloomsbury Christening" — Cruikshank's fortieth and final illustration for Dickens's "Sketches by Boz," Series 1 (8 February 1836) (original) (raw)

The Bloomsbury Christening

George Cruikshank

1839

Etching on copper

10.3 x 8.5 cm, vignetted

"The Bloomsbury Christening," Chapter 11 in "Tales" by Charles Dickens in Sketches by Boz, originally published in the April 1834 number of The Monthly Magazine; illustration facing p. 355.

Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham.

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