“What prevents me,” said Mr. Nupkins, with magisterial dignity, as Job was brought in, _ “what prevents me from detaining these men as rogues and impostors? . . . .’” — Thomas Onwhyn’s nineteenth extra illustration for Charles Dickens’s "The Pickwick Club" (31 July 1837) (original) (raw)

“What prevents me,” said Mr. Nupkins, “from detaining these men as rogues and impostors?’”

Thomas Onwhyn [signed “Sam Weller del”]

steel engraving

11.8 cm high by 12.3 cm wide (4 ½ by 4 ⅞ inches), vignetted

Charles Dickens's The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Chapter XXV (December 1836), facing p. 276.

Scanned image and text byPhilip V. Allingham.

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