"Mr. Pyke finds the miniature of Kate Nickleby" — Furniss's fourteenth illustration for Dickens's "Nicholas Nickleby" (1910) (original) (raw)

Mr. Pyke finds the miniature of Kate Nickleby

Harry Furniss

1910

3 ½ by 5 ½ inches (13.6 cm high x 8.9 cm wide), vignetted

Mr. Pluck, squeezing Mrs. Nickleby's hand, said, "Sir Mulberry is your daughter's devoted slave. Hem!" "Hah!" cried Mr. Pyke, snatching something from the chimneypiece. "What is this! what do I behold!" "It ius my daughter's portrait," said Mrs. Nickleby. — Nickleby, p. 352.

Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby, The Charles Dickens Library Edition, facing IV, 352.

Scanned image and text byPhilip V. Allingham.

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