“Well, that's a blessing,’” said Mr. Weller. “Sammy, help your master up to the box; t’other leg, Sir, that’s it; give us your hand, Sir. Up with you. You was a lighter weight when you was a boy, Sir.’” — Thomas Onwhyn's eighteenth extra illustration for Charles Dickens's "The Pickwick Club" (30 September 1837) (original) (raw)

“Well, that's a blessing,’” said Mr. Weller. “Sammy, help your master up to the box; t’other leg, Sir, that’s it; give us your hand, Sir. Up with you. . . . .’”

Thomas Onwhyn [signed TO del”]

steel engraving

13.5 cm high by 11.7 cm wide (5 by 4 ½ inches), vignetted

Charles Dickens's The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Chapter XXII, "In which Mr. Pickwick Journeys to Ipswitch and Meets with a Romantic Adventure with a Middle-Aged Lady in Yellow Curl-Papers" (November 1836), facing page 227.

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