"Before they had gone very far, they encountered a woman selling flowers; when the captain, stopping short, as if struck by a happy idea, made a purchase of the largest bundle in her basket" — Fred Barnard's seventeenth illustration for "Dombey and Son" (1877)

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Before they had gone very far, they encountered a woman selling flowers

Fred Barnard

1877

13.8 cm high x 10.7 cm wide, framed.

composite wood-block engraving

Dombey and Son, 112

Illustration for Chapter 15, "Amazing Artfulness of Captain Cuttle, and a new Pursuit for Walter Gay," Dickens's Dombey and Son, in the the Household Edition, XV.

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Passage Illustrated

The Captain being at length attired to his own complete satisfaction, and having glanced at himself from head to foot in a shaving-glass which he removed from a nail for that purpose, took up his knotted stick, and said he was ready.

The Captain’s walk was more complacent than usual when they got out into the street; but this Walter supposed to be the effect of the ankle-jacks, and took little heed of. Before they had gone very far, they encountered a woman selling flowers; when the Captain stopping short, as if struck by a happy idea, made a purchase of the largest bundle in her basket: a most glorious nosegay, fan-shaped, some two feet and a half round, and composed of all the jolliest-looking flowers that blow.

Armed with this little token which he designed for Mr Dombey, Captain Cuttle walked on with Walter until they reached the Instrument-maker’s door, before which they both paused. [Chapter 15, "Amazing Artfulness of Captain Cuttle, and a new Pursuit for Walter Gay," 111]

Images of the Jolly Tar from Other Editions

Left: Phiz's initial portrait of one of Dickens's most loveable characters: Profound Cogitation of Captain Cuttle with Walter Gaye (Chapter 15, February 1847). Left of centre: Phiz delights in the farcical situation of Mrs. McStinger's pursuit of the Captain in The Midshipman is boarded by the Enemy (Chapter 39, October 1847). Right of centre: Humorous detail of Bunsby's wedding day: Another Wedding (Chapter 60, April 1848). Right: Sol Eytinge, Junior, introduces Captain Cuttle as a thorough Old Salt in Captain Cuttle (Chapter 15, 1867).

Related Material including Other Illustrated Editions of Dombey and Son

Dombey and Son (homepage)
Phiz's 39 illustrations for Dombey and Son, Wholesale Retail & for Exportation (Oct. 1846 — April 1848)
Sol Eytinge, Junior's 16 illustrations (1867)
The Illustrators of the Household Edition of the Works of Charles Dickens (22 vols., 1871-79)
Kyd's five Player's Cigarette Cards for Dombey and Son (1910)
Harry Furniss's illustrations for the Charles Dickens Library Edition (1910)

Bibliography

Dickens, Charles. Dombey and Son. Illustrated by Phiz. (Hablot K. Browne). London: Chapman and Hall, 1848.

_______. Dombey and Son. Illustrated by Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz). 8 coloured plates. London and Edinburgh: Caxton and Ballantyne, Hanson, 1910.

_______. Dombey and Son.16 Illustrations by Sol Eytinge, Jr., and A. V. S. Anthony (engraver). The Diamond Edition. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1867. III.

_______. Dombey and Son. Illustrated by Fred Barnard [62 composite wood-block engravings]. The Works of Charles Dickens. The Household Edition. 22 vols. London: Chapman and Hall, 1877. XV.

"Dombey and Son — Sixty-two Illustrations by Fred Barnard." Scenes and Characters from the Works of Charles Dickens, Being Eight Hundred and Sixty-six Drawings by Fred Barnard, Gordon Thomson, Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz), J. McL. Ralston, J. Mahoney, H. French, Charles Green, E. G. Dalziel, A. B. Frost, F. A. Fraser, and Sir Luke Fildes. London: Chapman and Hall, 1907.

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