"'Oh Chiv, Chiv,' murmured Mr. Tigg, 'You have a nobly independent nature, Chiv.'" (1872). Ninth wood-engraving by Fred Barnard for Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit (Chapter VI), page 49. [Recalling Iago's blostering the sagging spirits of Roderigo in Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice, Montague Tigg attempts to rally the despondent Chevy Slyme, who has lost his hopes amidst so numerous a contingent of possible Chuzzlewit heirs.] 10.7 cm x 13.8 cm, framed. Engraving by the Dalziels for The Household Edition. Click on image to enlarge it.
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_____. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, with 59 illustrations by Fred Barnard. Household Edition, volume 2. London: Chapman and Hall, 1871-1880. The copy of the Household Edition from which this picture was scanned was the gift of George Gorniak, proprietor of The Dickens Magazine, whose subject for the fifth series, beginning in January 2008, was this novel.
_____. Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. Illustrated Harry Furniss. The Charles Dickens Library Edition. 18 vols. London: Educational Book, 1910. Vol. 7.
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