"The Murderer Has His Victim in his Net" by Harry Furniss — fourth illustration for "Master Humphrey's Clock" (1910) (original) (raw)

The Murderer Has His Victim in his Net

I stole down after him, creeping under certain shrubs which grow in that place. And none but devils know with what terror I, a strong full-grown man, tracked the footsteps of that baby as he approached the water’s brink. — Master Humphrey, p. 39

Harry Furniss

1910

13.5 cm x 9 cm (5 ¼ by 3 ¾ inches), vignetted.

Dickens's Master Humphrey's Clock, Chapter V, "A Confession Found in a Prison in the Time of Charles the Second" — facing VI, 39.

Scanned image and text byPhilip V. Allingham.

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