"The Moonstone" — "First period. Chapter 20: "For once in his life, the great Cuff stood speechless with amazement, like an ordinary man." (original) (raw)

"For once in his life, the great Cuff stood speechless with amazement, like an ordinary man."

"C. G. B."

Wood engraving

17.4 x 11.5 cm

The second full-sized illustration for the twelfth weekly part of Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone: A Romance in Harper's Weekly (21 March 1868), page 181. [Click on the image to enlarge it.]

Scanned image and text byPhilip V. Allingham.

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The illustrations appear 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.