“He folded his hands, and murmuring something more they could not hear, fell into a sleep — only a sleep at first, for they saw him smile.
They whispered together for a little time, and the turnkey, stooping over the pillow, drew hastily back. He has got his discharge, by G_.” Page 477. — Thomas Onwhyn's twenty-sixth extra illustration for Charles Dickens's “The Pickwick Club” (15 November 1837) (original) (raw)

“He folded his hands, and murmuring something more they could not hear, fell into a sleep . . . . He has got his discharge, by G_.”

Thomas Onwhyn [“TO del”]

steel engraving

12.6 cm high by 10.9 cm wide (4 ¾ by 4 ¼ inches), vignetted

Charles Dickens’s The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Chapter XLIV, “Treats of Divers Little Matters Which Occurred in The Fleet, and of Mr. Winkle’s Mysterious Behaviour; and Shows How the Poor Chancery Prisoner Obtained His Release at Last,” facing 477.

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