"I am going to Richmond," she told me.
H. M. Brock
Photographic reproduction of pen and ink drawing (?)
1903
13.8 cm high by 9 cm wide (5 and ⅜ by 3 ½ inches), framed, p. 194.
Sixth illustration for Dickens's Great Expectations
Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham.
Passage Illustrated: Pip accompanies Estella to her finishing school
It was no laughing matter with Estella now, nor was she summoning these remembrances from any shallow place. I would not have been the cause of that look of hers for all my expectations in a heap.
"Two things I can tell you," said Estella. "First, notwithstanding the proverb that constant dropping will wear away a stone, you may set your mind at rest that these people never will — never would, in hundred years — impair your ground with Miss Havisham, in any particular, great or small. Second, I am beholden to you as the cause of their being so busy and so mean in vain, and there is my hand upon it."
As she gave it to me playfully — for her darker mood had been but momentary — I held it and put it to my lips. "You ridiculous boy," said Estella, "will you never take warning? Or do you kiss my hand in the same spirit in which I once let you kiss my cheek?"
"What spirit was that?" said I.
"I must think a moment. A spirit of contempt for the fawners and plotters."
"If I say yes, may I kiss the cheek again?"
"You should have asked before you touched the hand. But, yes, if you like."
I leaned down, and her calm face was like a statue's. "Now," said Estella, gliding away the instant I touched her cheek, "you are to take care that I have some tea, and you are to take me to Richmond." [Chapter XXX, 194]
Pertinent Illustrations in Other Editions: 1860, 1867, 1876, 1897, 1902, and 1910
Left: John McLenan's "If I say yes, may I kiss the cheek again?" Centre: Sol Eytinge's "Miss Havisham and Estella." Right: F. A. Fraser's "Oh, but you must take the purse!." [Click on images to enlarge them.]
Left: A. A. Dixon's Collins Pocket Edition lithograph of Pip and Estella, travelling up from Kent: Her calm face was like a statue's (1905). Centre: Charles Green's Pip and Estella in London (1898). Right: Harry Furniss's "Estella and Pip in Miss Havisham's Garden" (1910). [Click on images to enlarge them.]
Other Artists’ Illustrations for Dickens's Great Expectations
- A Comparison of Fraser's Illustrations in the original 1870s Household Edition plates and those in the Collier New York edition of 1900
- J. Clayton Clarke or "Kyd"
(2 coloured lithographs) - Felix O. C. Darley (2 plates)
- A. A. Dixon (8 lithographs)
- Sol Eytinge, Jr. (8 wood-engravings)
- F. A. Fraser (30 wood-engravings)
- Harry Furniss (28 plates)
- Charles Green (10 lithographs)
- Frederic W. Pailthorpe (21 lithographs)
- John McLenan (40 plates)
- Marcus Stone (8 plates)
Bibliography
Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. Imperial Edition. 16 vols. London: Gresham Publishing Company [34 Southampton Street, The Strand, London], 1901-3.
Created 19 January 2002 Last updated 30 April 2026