"The Moonstone" — "First period. Chapter 20: "She limped a step nearer to me, and looked as if she could have eaten me alive." (original) (raw)

"She limped a step nearer to me, and looked as if she could have eaten me alive."

"C. G. B."

Wood engraving

17.3 x 11.8 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 197. [Click on the image to enlarge it.]

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.