The Carrier's Cart

Clarkson Stanfield and T. Williams (engraver)

1845

Wood engraving

11.3 cm high x 7 cm wide (4 ¼ by 2 ¾ inches), framed.

Fourth illustration for Dickens's The Cricket on the Hearth: "Chirp the First," page 11.

This is Stanfield's only commission for this novella. In the next Christmass Book, however, he received a commission for three illustrations, perhaps on the strength of this single, highly atmospheric plate.

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