“There they both stood, gentlemen . . . pieces of packthread./ . . . “we may yet escape.” — Thomas Onwhyn's twenty-ninth extra illustration for Charles Dickens's "The Pickwick Club" (15 November 1837) (original) (raw)

“There they both stood, gentlemen . . . the lady, running up to my uncle and throwing her beautiful arms round his neck; “we may yet escape.”

Thomas Onwhyn [“TO del”]

steel engraving

12.3 cm high by 10.6 cm wide (4 ¾ by 4 ⅛ inches), vignetted

Charles Dickens's The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Chapter XLIX, “Containing the Story of The Bagman's Uncle,” facing 528.

Scanned image and text byPhilip V. Allingham.

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