"Smike's Delusion" — Furniss's twenty-seventh illustration for Dickens's "Nicholas Nickleby" (1910) (original) (raw)

Smike's Delusion

Harry Furniss

1910

5 ½ by 3 ¾ inches (14.1 cm high x 9.3 cm wide), vignetted

With eyes almost starting from their sockets, Smike was shrieking for help. "Be calm," cried Nicholas, "you have been dreaming." "No, no, no!" cried Smike. "There — there — behind the tree!" — p. 775

Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby, The Charles Dickens Library Edition, facing IV, 784.

Scanned image and text byPhilip V. Allingham.

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