“Mr. Pickwick stepped out of the closet, and found himself in the presence of the whole establishment of Westgate House.” — Thomas Onwhyn's eleventh extra illustration for Charles Dickens's "The Pickwick Club" (30 June 1837) (original) (raw)

“Mr. Pickwick stepped out of the closet . . . of Westgate House.”

Thomas Onwhyn [“TO del”]

steel engraving

12.6 cm high by 11.1 cm wide (4 ⅞ by 4 ¼ inches), vignetted

Charles Dickens's The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Chapter XVI, "Too Full of Adventure to be Briefly Described," (September 1836), facing page 171.

Scanned image and text byPhilip V. Allingham.

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