“The fat old lady,” inquired Mr.Pickwick, innocently. nobody's fat or old in Ba-ath. That’s the Dowager Snuphanuph.” — Thomas Onwhyn's twenty-fourth extra illustration for Charles Dickens’s “The Pickwick Club” (31 October 1837) (original) (raw)

“The fat old lady,” inquired Mr.Pickwick, innocently.
“Hush, my dear Sir — nobody's fat or old in Ba-ath. That’s the Dowager Snuphanuph.”

Thomas Onwhyn [“TO del”]

steel engraving

12 cm high by 11.4 cm wide (4 ¾ by 4 ⅜ inches), vignetted

Charles Dickens's The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Chapter XXXV, “In Which Mr. Pickwick Thinks He Had Better Go to Bath; and Goes Accordingly,” facing 380.

Scanned image and text byPhilip V. Allingham.

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