"Mr. and Mrs. Garland, and Whisker" — Sol Eytinge, Jr.'s fifth illustration for Dickens's "The Old Curiosity Shop" (1867) (original) (raw)

Mr. and Mrs. Garland, and Whisker

Sol Eytinge, Jr.

1867

Wood-engraving

9.9 x 7.4 cm (framed)

Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop & Reprinted Pieces (Diamond Edition), facing XII, 70.

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Context of the Illustration: A Providential Meeting in the Street

He was quite tired out with pacing the streets, to say nothing of repeated disappointments, and was sitting down upon a step to rest, when there approached towards him a little clattering jingling four-wheeled chaise, drawn by a little obstinate-looking rough-coated pony, and driven by a little fat placid-faced old gentleman. Beside the little old gentleman sat a little old lady, plump and placid like himself, and the pony was coming along at his own pace and doing exactly as he pleased with the whole concern. If the old gentleman remonstrated by shaking the reins, the pony replied by shaking his head. It was plain that the utmost the pony would consent to do, was to go in his own way up any street that the old gentleman particularly wished to traverse, but that it was an understanding between them that he must do this after his own fashion or not at all. [Chapter XIV, 70]

Bibliography

Dickens, Charles. The Old Curiosity Shop and Reprinted Pieces. 18 Illustrations by Sol Eytinge, Jr. The Diamond Edition. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1867. XII.

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