"Captain Cuttle gives them <em>The Lovely Peg</em>" — Fred Barnard's sixty-first illustration for "Dombey and Son" (1877)

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Captain Cuttle gives them The Lovely Peg

Fred Barnard

1877

13.7 cm high x 10.5 cm wide, three-quarter-page, framed.

composite wood-block engraving

Dombey and Son, 448

Illustration for Chapter Chapter 62, "Final," in Dickens's Dombey and Son, in the Household Edition, XV.

Running head: "Little Florence" (449)

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Passage Illustrated: The Convivial Comic Characters Reprised

"Sol Gills, you man of science and my ould pardner, what did I tell Wal’r to overhaul on that there night when he first took to business? Was it this here quotation, “Turn again Whittington, Lord Mayor of London, and when you are old you will never depart from it.” Was it them words, Sol Gills?"

"It certainly was, Ned," replied the old Instrument-maker. "I remember well."

"Then I tell you what," says the Captain, leaning back in his chair, and composing his chest for a prodigious roar. "I’ll give you Lovely Peg right through; and stand by, both on you, for the chorus!’

Buried wine grows older, as the old Madeira did, in its time; and dust and cobwebs thicken on the bottles. [Chapter 62, "Final," 448]

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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