"The Perches" — Sol Eytinge, Jr.'s thirteenth illustration for Dickens's "Dombey and Son" (1867)

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The Perches

Sol Eytinge, Jr.

1867

Wood-engraving

10 x 7.4 cm (framed)

Dickens's Dombey and Son (Diamond Edition), facing III, 412.

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Passage Illustrated: The Perches, Dombey's Messenger and his perpetually pregnant wife/h3>
As to Perch, the messenger, he is in a fair way of being ruined for life. He finds himself again constantly in bars of public-houses, being treated and lying dreadfully. It appears that he met everybody concerned in the late transaction, everywhere, and said to them, `Sir,' or `Madam,' as the case was `why do you look so pale?' at which each shuddered from head to foot, and said, `Oh, Perch!' and ran away. Either the consciousness of these enormities, or the reaction consequent on liquor, reduces Mr. Perch to an extreme state of low spirits at that hour of the evening when he usually seeks consolation in the society of Mrs. Perch at Balls Pond; and Mrs. Perch frets a good deal, for she fears his confidence in woman is shaken now, and that he half expects on coming home at night to find her gone off with some Viscount. [Chapter 51, "Mr Dombey and The World," 412]

Related Material, including Other Illustrated Editions of Dombey and Son

Dombey and Son (homepage)
The Diamond Edition of Charles Dickens’s Works
Phiz's Illustrations for Dombey and Son, Wholesale Retail & for Exportation (Oct. 1846 - April 1848)
Fred Barnard's 61 illustrations for the Household Edition (1872)
Kyd's five Player's Cigarette Cards, 1910
Harry Furniss's 29 Illustrations for the Charles Dickes Library Edition (1910)

Bibliography

Dickens, Charles. 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.

Hammerton, J. A.. "Ch. XVI. Dombey and Son." The Dickens Picture-Book. London: Educational Book Co., [1910], 294-338.

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