"Try to forgive me, mamma." — "The Moonstone" "First period. Chapter 19: (14 March 1868) (original) (raw)

"Try to forgive me, mamma."

William Jewett

Wood engraving

17.4 x 11.5 cm (6 ¾ by 4 ½ inches)

The second full-sized illustration for the eleventh weekly part of Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone: A Romance in Harper's Weekly (14 March 1868), page 165. [Click on the image to enlarge it.]

Signed "W. J." lower left)

Scanned image and text byPhilip V. Allingham.

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The illustration appears here by courtesy of the E. J. Pratt Fine Arts Library, University of Toronto, and the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, University of British Columbia.