"The Spider and the Fly." (1870s) — Fred Barnard's thirty-third illustration for Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit (Chapter XXVIII), page 225. [Respectively Mr. Tigg Montague, swindling insurance magnate, right, and Jonas Chuzzlewit, gullible shareholder in the Anglo-Bengalee: given Jonas's volatile and vindictive nature, one may rightly wonder who is the spider and who the fly since both are caught up and ultimately destroyed by Montague Tigg's web of deceit.] 10.5 cm x 13.7 cm. Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham. [You may use this image without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose as long as you (1) credit the person who scanned the image and (2) link your document to this URL. Click on this 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 by Harry Furniss. The Charles Dickens Library Edition. 18 vols. London: Educational Book, 1910. Vol. 7.

Kyd [Clayton J. Clarke]. Characters from Dickens. Nottingham: John Player & Sons, 1910.

Steig, Michael. "Martin Chuzzlewit's Progress by Dickens and Phiz. Dickens Studies Annual 2 (1972): 119-149.


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