“Dear me,” said Mr. Pickwick. “Poor lady! gently, Sam, gently’.” “Strange sitivation for one o’ the family’,” observed Sam Weller, hoisting the aunt into a chair. “Now, depitty Sawbones, bring out the wollatilly.” Page 513. — Thomas Onwhyn’s twenty-eighth extra illustration for Charles Dickens's “The Pickwick Club” (15 November 1837) (original) (raw)

“Dear me,” said Mr. Pickwick. “Poor lady! gently, Sam, gently’.” “Strange sitivation for one o’ the family’,” observed Sam Weller, hoisting the aunt into a chair. “Now, depitty Sawbones, bring out the wollatilly.”

Thomas Onwhyn [“TO del”]

steel engraving

12 cm high by 10.9 cm wide (4 ½ by 4 ¼ inches), vignetted

Dickens’s The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Chapter XLVIII, “Relates How Mr. Pickwick, with the Assistance of Samuel Weller, Essayed to Soften the Heart of Mr. Benjamin Allen, and to Mollify the Wrath of Mr. Robert Sawyer,” p. 513.

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