“Well, I’ll bet you half a dozen of claret,” said Wilkins Flasher, Esquire_ This was addressed to a very smart young gentleman who wore his hat on his right whisker, and was lounging over the desk killing flies with a ruler.” — Thomas Onwhyn's thirty-second extra illustration for Charles Dickens's "The Pickwick Club" (30 November 1837) (original) (raw)

“Well, I’ll bet you half a dozen of claret,” said Wilkins Flasher, Esquire.

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 LV, “Mr. Solomon Pell, Assisted by a Select Committee of Coachmen, Arranges the Affairs of the Elder Mr. Weller,” facing 591.

Scanned image and text byPhilip V. Allingham.

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