"The Schoolmaster" — Furniss's thirteenth illustration for Dickens's "The Old Curiosity Shop" (1910)

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The Schoolmaster

He was a pale, simple-looking man, of a spare and meagre habit, and sat smoking his pipe, in the little porch before his door.

Harry Furniss

1910

14 x 8.6 cm, vignetted

Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop, The Charles Dickens Library Edition, facing V, 176.

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Passage Illustrated: Portrait of a Melancholy Teacher

It was a very small place. The men and boys were playing at cricket on the green; and as the other folks were looking on, they wandered up and down, uncertain where to seek a humble lodging. There was but one old man in the little garden before his cottage, and him they were timid of approaching, for he was the schoolmaster, and had "School" written up over his window in black letters on a white board. He was a pale, simple-looking man, of a spare and meagre habit, and sat among his flowers and beehives, smoking his pipe, in the little porch before his door.

"Speak to him, dear," the old man whispered. [Chapter XXIV, 179: original caption emphasized]

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Bibliography

Dickens, Charles. The Old Curiosity Shop. Illustrated by Harry Furniss. The Charles Dickens Library Edition. 18 vols. London: Educational Book Company, 1910. V.

Created 8 May 2020

Last modified 27 November 2020